Most people now use digital photographs on our phones/tablets/laptops. But If you still like to have some printed (at a reasonable price) there are apps available which you can download onto your smart phone. – “FreePrints” (also a similar deal with the PhotoBox app and the Snapfish app)
They work by downloading the app and set up a free account with them – the app is free from the Google Play Store on an Android phone or the App Store on an iPhone.
You can choose up to 45 (or 50, depending on the app) standard-sized photos to print each month. The prints themselves are free you just pay for the postage. The FreePrints app postage is roughly between £1.49 and £3.99 depending on the number of prints ordered in a month. Exact postage costs will vary a bit from app to app.
There’s no subscription, so there is no need to order every month. The small downside is, that if your free photo allowance for one month is not used, you can’t carry it over to the next month. These apps are useful if you like to order a small number of prints regularly, rather than a load in one go.
If you’ve saved up a big batch of photos to get printed all at once, maybe stored on your computer or a service like Google Photos, it may be worth looking at deals on websites like Snapfish, Photobox or Boots Photos (there are others too). They’ll often have free photo deals for new customers, or give you free postage if you spend over a certain amount with them. They usually charge around 10p per print.
Both the apps and these websites are also handy for other photo products to put on your wall – poster-sized prints, canvases, mugs, T-shirts, calendars. Prices vary quite a bit between the different websites.