Photo Prints Now: CVS Photo

Review by eFreeware

The thing that stands out about Photo Prints Now is that it skips the photo kiosk entirely. Instead of standing at a machine in a store and working through its menus, you choose pictures on your phone, pick a size, and send the order to a CVS location to be printed within the hour. The developer describes this as a partnership with CVS that reaches more than 9,600 stores across the country, and printing is done on genuine Kodak Moments paper.

That makes it a tool for a specific job: turning photos that already live on your phone into physical prints. If you take pictures on your phone and want them printed, framed, on the fridge or in a card, this is the kind of app that removes most of the friction. It is free to download, carries no ads and offers no in-app purchases, so there is nothing to buy inside the app itself.

It has been on Google Play since May 2017 and has passed a million installs, with a 4.8 average from more than 41,000 ratings. Those numbers suggest a settled, widely used tool rather than a new experiment, though the newest update, in August 2026, is mostly described as bug fixes and interface improvements alongside home delivery.

Printing at a CVS counter in about an hour

The core flow is short: select pictures from your phone, choose print sizes, then send the order to CVS or have it delivered. The app is pitched as faster than using a kiosk, and the appeal is easy to see, because the selection work happens on the device where the photos already are rather than at a shared terminal in a store.

Standard print sizes are covered: 4x6, 5x7 and 8x10, plus square formats at 6x6 and 8x8 that suit images pulled from social feeds. There is a screen for changing sizes and quantities before you commit the order, and a store locator to find the nearest CVS. The developer says prints sent to a store are ready for pickup within the hour.

The app also reaches beyond the phone's own camera roll. It can pull pictures from Instagram, Facebook, Flickr, Dropbox and Google+, which matters if some of the images you want printed were never saved locally. For anyone whose photo history is scattered across services, that saves the step of downloading each picture first.

Gifts, wall art and the larger formats

Prints are only part of what the app orders. There are canvas prints, print panels, posters, magnets, wallet prints, panoramic prints, bamboo ornaments and photo cards, so the same selection process can produce a gift rather than a stack of snapshots. Photo cards come in a range of designs for occasions such as Christmas, birthdays, invitations and save-the-date notices.

The larger items are where the app starts to look like a decorating tool. Canvas prints can be ordered as large as 20x24 or 24x36, and print panels run from 4x6 up to 8x10 in acrylic, bamboo or wood. Posters are suggested for dorm decor or business signage, and the developer frames the whole range as affordable wall art.

Some of these items are described as ready the same day at CVS, including the 2x2 bamboo ornaments and the photo cards. Magnets come in 4x6 and 5x5, and wallet prints are positioned as an easy gift at the right time of year. Between the small novelty items and the big canvas pieces, the catalog covers a wider spread than most people would expect from a phone printing app.

Delivery to your door instead of a store run

If a trip to CVS does not fit your day, the same order can be sent for home delivery. Prints and gifts ship to your address, which makes the app closer to a conventional online photo service with a phone-based front end.

The two routes serve different moments. One-hour pickup is for the times you want the prints today, whether that is a card you need for an event or a picture someone is waiting on. Delivery is for larger orders, gifts that need to arrive at someone else's address, or anything you would rather not collect in person.

Both paths start from the same place, so you are not choosing between two separate apps. You pick the pictures, decide on sizes and quantities, and then decide whether they are collected or shipped.

What the app costs you

The app itself is free, and it does not carry advertising or offer in-app purchases. There is no subscription to weigh and nothing to unlock inside the app before you can order. That is a clean arrangement for a utility whose real spending happens when you pay for the prints themselves.

The cost that matters is the order: the prints, gifts and delivery you choose. Those are handled as part of placing an order rather than as a separate purchase. It is worth treating the app as the ordering tool and the print order as the expense.

Because there are no ads, the interface is not competing for attention with anything else, which suits a task you want to finish quickly. The trade-off is simply that the app is a front end to a paid service: free to install, and useful only if you actually want physical prints.

How it compares with the alternatives

The nearest alternative is the in-store kiosk, which needs no app at all but asks you to do the selecting on a machine in a store. The developer's claim is that this app is faster than that, and the logic holds: your photos are already on your phone, and the ordering can be done before you leave the house.

A second option is a general online print service, the kind that takes uploads from a computer or a phone and mails the results. Those tend to be built around delivery, and this app covers delivery too, but its distinguishing feature is the same-day pickup at a pharmacy chain you may already visit.

A third comparison is a dedicated photo-editing app that exports to print. That route adds extra steps. This app is not an editor; it is an ordering tool, and it is best judged on how quickly it gets a chosen picture onto paper.

A straightforward route from camera roll to paper

Photo Prints Now does one job and does it without asking much of you. You choose pictures, pick sizes, and send them either to a CVS store for one-hour pickup or to an address for delivery, with Kodak Moments paper and a wide catalog of formats behind the order. The free download, absence of ads and lack of in-app purchases keep the experience uncluttered.

It suits people who take photos on a phone and want them printed without a detour through a kiosk, particularly those who live or work near a CVS and value same-day pickup. It also suits anyone ordering gifts, cards or wall art from pictures that are already on the device, and anyone whose images sit across social and cloud services rather than in one folder.

The app is not for someone who wants to edit photos before printing, and it is not useful if collecting from CVS or waiting for delivery does not fit how you shop.

What's new in version 20.11.0

CVS Photo Printing from Your Android Device - Home delivery available, have your prints delivered to your door - Bug fixes and UX improvements