Lifeprint Printers vs SI Smartphone Printer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lifeprint Printers
Print photos and videos from your phone, including animated GIFs and Live Photos. Embed secret videos within photos that come to life using augmented reality. Share prints directly to friends' printers worldwide.
- Augmented Reality Hyperphotos
- Print photos and videos from camera roll
- Print animated GIFs and Live Photos
- Direct social media integration (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter)
- Remote printing to friends' printers
- Embed secret videos in photos
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Lifeprint is an Augmented Reality photo & video printing and sharing platform with its own social network. Our unique sharing system allows you to print photos and videos, directly to your friend’s or family’s Lifeprint printer, anywhere in the world… You can literally send prints to other people’s printers! (with their permission of course). Lifeprint’s Augmented Reality “Hyperphotos” allows you to embed a secret video inside any photo and then watch it come to life like magic in your hands with the App. Lifeprint can print any photo or video from your camera roll, including Saved Snaps, animated GIFs, and Apple Live Photos. Moreover, Lifeprint directly integrates with Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter so you can easily print your photos and videos directly from those platforms as well. Lifeprint printers are available in 4 models: Standard 2x3, Ultra Slim 2x3, WiFi 3x4.5, and (now!) Instant Print Camera 2x3.
SI Smartphone Printer
Print photos directly from your smartphone or tablet. Capture, edit, and instantly print your cherished memories with this portable photo printer.
- Print photos from smartphones
- Edit pictures on smartphones
- Instant photo printing
- Portable design
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Sharper Image Smartphone Printer Easily print amazing photos with Sharper Image Smartphone Printer Instant Printer. The Sharper Image Smartphone Printer photo printer can be used to print images from smartphones . You can take and edit pictures on smartphones or tablets. This Sharper Image Smartphone Printer Instant Printer will instantly print your precious moments.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SI Smartphone Printer at 2.8 against Lifeprint Printers's 2.0. SI Smartphone Printer also leads on review sentiment (26% vs 13%) and iOS requirement (13.1 vs 15.6). Lifeprint Printers's advantage is ratings volume (611 vs 116). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SI Smartphone Printer holds the better App Store score, 2.8 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lifeprint Printers has 611 ratings behind it against 116, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 13% of Lifeprint Printers's written reviews are positive against 26% of SI Smartphone Printer's.
Lifeprint Printers ships an update every 3 months, SI Smartphone Printer every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 17, 2026.
| Parameter | Lifeprint Printers | SI Smartphone Printer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (611 ratings) | 2.8 (116 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 12.7% of reviews | 25.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 611 — better | 116 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 728 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | C&A Marketing, Inc. | Prinics Co., Ltd |
Customer experience
Lifeprint Printers
SI Smartphone Printer
User reviews
Lifeprint Printers
From 611 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Prints quickly
- 💡 Innovative concept
- 👍 Compact and portable
- 👍 Customizable profiles
- 👍 Sticker feature
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and glitchy app
- 🔋 Poor battery life
- 👎 Low print quality
- 👎 Expensive paper
- 👎 Unreliable connectivity
SI Smartphone Printer
From 116 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Prints are acceptable
- 👍 Good quality for a small printer
- 👍 Easy to set up
- 👍 Awesome app
- 👍 Decent app for editing photos
Room to improve
- 🐛 App glitches and freezes
- 🐛 Photo gets stuck and won't push out
- 🐛 Prints with weird black lines
- 🐛 Bad Bluetooth connection
- 🐛 Printer shuts off quickly
Bugs and requests
Lifeprint Printers
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes frequently
- Printing queue issues
- Firmware update problems
- Connectivity issues
- Photos not printing properly
Requested features
5 requests- Allow collage printing
- Integrate with Google Photos
- Improve video playback
- Add more editing tools
- Provide better customer support
SI Smartphone Printer
Reported bugs
25 issues- App glitches and freezes
- App crashes when choosing photos
- Photo gets stuck and won't push out
- Printer shuts off quickly
- Paper gets stuck inside printer
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- Bluetooth connection issues
- Colors out of alignment
- App doesn't find all photos
- App won't access photos
- Printer not found
- Annoying updates
- Useless update
- Physical connection issues with upgraded app
- Requires restarting printer frequently
- Prints with weird black lines
- Prints in plain yellow
- Cartridge needs replacement immediately
- Lines through the ink
- Takes forever to recognize connection/selection
- Only finds one photo
- Cannot crop photos properly
- Slow printing
- Cumbersome to use
- Out of warranty issues
- Not compatible with Kodak mini shot 3 c300r
Requested features
10 requests- Add iPhone 13 mini and iPhone 14 phone case templates
- Add iPhone 13 print case template
- Revert to the old app setup
- Improve cropping tool functionality
- Support Google Photos
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- Support Facebook photos
- Add instructional videos
- Improve app intuitiveness
- Allow access to all photos on phone
- Fix firmware issue for Kodak mini shot 3 c300r compatibility
In-app purchases
Lifeprint Printers
No in-app purchases
SI Smartphone Printer
No in-app purchases
Questions
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