Printer App: Print Documents

Review by eFreeware

Printing from a phone has always felt like the task nobody designed for. Files live in different places, attachments arrive in mail apps, and photos sit in a gallery that has no obvious route to a printer. Printer App: Print Documents, from developer FIRE Ltd, is an attempt to pull those scattered jobs into one place on Android.

The pitch is straightforward: connect your printer over Wi-Fi and print what you need from the phone itself, whether that is a PDF, a picture, an email attachment or a page you are reading in the browser. The app is free to install, carries no ads, and offers in-app purchases. It has been out since late November 2025 and was updated in July 2026 with bug fixes and a new design.

One app for the jobs that usually send you to a computer

The core of the app is a printing hub. The developer describes a setup where the printer is already on the same Wi-Fi network, after which printing is a matter of picking the file and sending it. That is the whole premise, and it is a sensible one: most of what people print from a phone is short and immediate, not a long document session.

What makes the app more than a bare print dialog is the range of sources it accepts. Documents stored on the device, photos, email attachments and webpages are all handled inside the app rather than through separate tools. If you regularly forward yourself a ticket or a receipt and then forget to print it, having one destination for all of it is the appeal.

There is also a history section. Printed PDFs, images and other content are listed there so you can review them, share them through messaging apps or email, or delete what you no longer need. It is a small thing, but it saves hunting through a downloads folder later.

The scanner turns the phone into the input device

Alongside printing, the app includes a scanner that uses the phone's camera. The developer lists documents, receipts, notes and IDs as the kinds of things you can capture, and says captured pages can be edited before they are printed. For anyone who deals with paper forms or expense receipts, that combination is the most useful part of the package.

The logic of scanning and printing in the same app is easy to see. A receipt photographed at a store can become a printed copy at home without a separate scanning tool in between. Whether the scan quality holds up for fine print is not something the developer makes claims about, and I would treat the scanner as a convenience for ordinary paperwork rather than a replacement for a dedicated flatbed.

The photo side works on similar lines. Images can be printed directly, or adjusted first with filters, color changes and text. That is enough for a birthday photo or a quick sign, and it keeps the editing step inside the same app as the printing step.

PDFs, email attachments and webpages

PDF printing is presented as a first-class job rather than an afterthought. The developer pitches it for work reports and personal documents, with the PDF printed straight from the device. Since so much of what arrives by email is a PDF, this is likely to be the feature most people use most often.

Email attachments get their own treatment: the app opens and prints them without requiring you to download the file first. That removes a step that otherwise leaves stray files on your phone, and it fits the way attachments usually arrive, as something you want to deal with once and then move on from.

Webpage printing covers articles, receipts, tickets and other online material, and you can print a whole page or just the sections you select. Being able to trim a long page down to the part you actually need is a practical touch, particularly for confirmations and booking pages that carry a lot of surrounding clutter.

Templates for the times you have nothing ready

The app also ships with a set of ready-made printable categories. Calendars, birthday cards, planners and coloring pages are named, and the idea is that you print them as they are instead of building something from scratch. It is a modest addition, but it gives the app a reason to be opened on a rainy afternoon rather than only when a document needs to be printed.

I would not treat the templates as the main event. They are the kind of thing you use once in a while, and the value depends entirely on whether the categories match what you actually want. Still, having them inside the same app as the printer connection means one less install when the need appears.

What the app asks of you before it will work

The app requires a printer on Wi-Fi. The app is built around connecting to a network printer, so the printing side depends on that setup being in place. If your printer is not on the same network, or you print from somewhere without one, the app's main function has nothing to talk to.

The app is free with no ads, and it does offer in-app purchases. I would go in expecting the free download to be the starting point and treat any paid element as something to look at once you are inside.

The rating tells its own story. With more than 12,000 ratings and an average of 3.5, the reception is middling rather than glowing. That is worth factoring in if you are choosing between this and whatever printing route your phone already provides. The July 2026 update, with its bug fixes and redesign, suggests the developer is still working on the app.

A fit for occasional phone printing, not a print shop

The people this app seems built for are those who print in small, irregular batches from a phone: a form here, a photo there, a ticket before a trip. The scanner and the template library nudge it toward household and study use as much as office work, and the history section is there for anyone who wants to keep track of what has been sent to the printer.

It is less obviously a tool for heavy document workflows. Everything here is oriented around quick jobs from a phone rather than managing large print queues or complex layouts. If your printing is occasional and varied, the breadth of sources is the strongest argument for it. If it is constant and structured, the app's focus will feel narrow.

The mix of scanner, photo editing, templates and printing in one free app is unusual enough to be worth a look for anyone whose printer already sits on Wi-Fi.

My recommendation on installing it

Printer App: Print Documents is worth installing if you have a Wi-Fi printer and your printing needs are the ordinary kind: a PDF from email, a photo, a page from a website, the occasional scanned receipt. The app gathers all of that into one place and adds templates for the times you want to print something without preparing a file first.

The case against it is the setup requirement and the average rating. Without a network printer the app has little to do, and a 3.5 average across more than 12,000 ratings suggests plenty of users found it adequate rather than excellent. Since it costs nothing to try and shows no ads, the risk is low.

For a household or a student who prints a few times a month, I would give it a go. For anyone printing at volume, or working without a Wi-Fi printer, the app's value drops sharply.

What's new in version 31.0

- Fix bugs - New design