PrinterShare Mobile Print

Review by eFreeware

The thing that sets PrinterShare Mobile Print apart from the printing tools baked into Android is reach: it aims to get a document off your phone and onto a printer that may be sitting in the next room or on another continent. The developer, Mobile Dynamix, has built the app around two ideas, direct printing to hardware you can reach yourself and remote printing to hardware you cannot, and everything else hangs off those. It has been downloaded more than 10 million times and holds a 4.1 average from just under 198,000 ratings, which suggests a broad audience rather than a niche one.

That audience is fairly easy to picture. If you handle invoices, shipping labels, tickets or signed forms from a phone or tablet, and you would rather not open a laptop every time something needs to be printed, this is the sort of app that fits the job. It also makes sense for anyone whose printer is a shared machine on a home or office network, where the phone is the device actually in hand when the file arrives.

Direct printing to nearby hardware

Nearby printing is the core of the app. It talks to wireless printers over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, which matters for hardware that never had a network card. Unlimited direct printing is the headline benefit of the paid tier, which tells you where the emphasis sits.

The file types are broad. Photos in JPG, PNG and GIF go out as images, and documents in PDF, DOC, XLS, PPT and TXT are handled as attachments, so a spreadsheet or a slide deck does not need converting first.

Cloud storage is covered too, with Google Drive, OneDrive, Box and Dropbox named among the sources the app can pull from. That combination, a file in the cloud and a printer on the local network, is where a phone-based printing tool earns its keep, because the alternative is usually emailing the file to yourself and finishing the job on a computer.

Remote printing and the print options

Remote printing is the feature that goes beyond what a stock Android print service typically offers, and the paid tier includes 100 remote pages under the same account. The obvious use is a document that needs to be on a desk before you get there, but the same mechanism covers any situation where the printer and the person are in different places.

Before anything comes out, you get a familiar set of controls: paper size, page orientation, number of copies, page range, one- or two-sided printing, print quality in resolution terms, color or monochrome, and media tray selection. None of this is exotic, but it is the difference between a tool that can only push a file and one that can produce a document formatted the way you intended.

There is also a narrower trick worth mentioning: UPS shipping labels can be printed straight from a browser on the device to supported thermal printers after logging into the UPS site. That is a specific workflow, and it is the kind of detail that suggests the app was built with small-business shipping routines in mind rather than only home photo printing.

What the free download actually covers

The app is free to install, carries no advertising, and offers in-app purchases. Some features are not free and require a purchase to unlock the premium side of the app, so read that part carefully before you assume the free download does everything.

The free version prints with certain restrictions on nearby wireless and direct USB OTG printers, and it also handles Windows shared printers over SMB or CIFS as well as Mac shared printers. If your printing is occasional and local, the free side may be enough; if you print regularly or need the remote route, the purchase is the part that matters.

One practical note from the developer deserves repeating: print the test page before buying anything. That advice exists because printer compatibility is the variable that decides whether the app is useful to you at all, and confirming it costs nothing.

Printer support, drivers and the compatibility question

PrinterShare covers a long list of brands, including HP, Canon, Brother, Kodak, Samsung, Dell, Ricoh, Lexmark, Kyocera and OKI, along with legacy networkable models. For some direct nearby printing on selected models, the app downloads and uses drivers from the HPLIP and GutenPrint projects, which are distributed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License. That is a meaningful detail for anyone with an older printer that modern phones ignore.

The developer maintains a supported-printer list and asks users to check it before assuming their model will work. Printers outside that list are not necessarily out of reach: the developer offers free computer software for Mac and Windows that can bridge the gap to unsupported and legacy hardware. That is a sensible fallback.

Two other changes are worth knowing about. Text message and call log printing were removed because of Google Play's permissions policy, so the app no longer covers that particular use. The permissions the app asks for exist so it can print, and the developer says they are not used to gather personal data, with a fuller explanation in the app's FAQ.

How I would approach using it

Start with the test page, as the developer suggests. It takes a minute and tells you whether your printer is reachable, which is the single question that determines whether the rest of the app is worth your time. If the test page works, move on to a real document and check the output settings, since paper size, duplex and color choices are where a job usually goes wrong.

For everyday use, the share action is likely to be the fastest path. Rather than opening PrinterShare and hunting for a file, share it from whatever app already has it open, whether that is a mail client, a cloud storage app or a browser. Cloud sources such as Google Drive, OneDrive, Box and Dropbox are handled directly.

If you print shipping labels, the UPS route through the device browser to a supported thermal printer is worth setting up early, because it removes a step from a task that tends to repeat. And if you travel or work across sites, the remote printing allowance is the feature to plan around.

The app was last updated on August 24, 2026, with bug fixes listed, which is a modest but reassuring signal that the project is still being tended to.

A practical tool for phone-first printing

PrinterShare Mobile Print is a focused utility rather than a general productivity suite, and that is a point in its favor. It does one job, moving content from an Android device to a printer, and it does so across a wider range of hardware and situations than most people would expect from a phone. The 4.1 average across a large number of ratings suggests that many users find it workable, though a rating that size always contains a mix of experiences.

The free download is a reasonable place to start, particularly if your printing is local and occasional, and the paid tier is aimed at people who print regularly, need unrestricted nearby output, or want the remote option with its 100 pages. The developer's advice to test first is the right instinct, because printer compatibility is the one thing that decides everything else.

Check the supported-printer list, run the test page, and let that result guide whether the free version is enough or the purchase makes sense.

What's new in version 12.25.0

bug fixes