Editor's Review
Order prints on the bus, collect them the same afternoon. That is the pitch, and the app delivers it by routing your photos to a print counter at a nearby pharmacy chain instead of to a mail-order lab.
How it works: choose pictures from the camera roll or a linked cloud account, pick sizes from wallet prints up to enlargements, add posters, canvases or photo books if you want them, then select a store. The app confirms when an order is ready for collection, which for standard prints is usually inside the hour the name promises.
Worth knowing: this is a third-party ordering app from 1HourPhoto, Inc., not software published by the pharmacy chains themselves. Orders are fulfilled at their counters, but pricing, promotions and support come from the developer. Read the checkout total carefully, because per-print prices and any handling charge are set inside the app rather than by the store.
Limits: everything depends on a participating store being near you, which in practice means the United States. The 4.67 average across a hundred thousand installs suggests the collection process generally holds together, and the complaints that do surface tend to concern individual counters rather than the software.
Features
Print ordering from the camera roll or a linked cloud account
Standard print sizes plus enlargements and posters
Photo books, canvases and gift items
Store picker showing nearby participating locations
Notification when an order is ready for collection
Basic crop and rotate before ordering
Pros
Same-day collection avoids waiting on a postal delivery
Product range goes well beyond flat prints
A 4.67 rating is strong for an ordering app of this type
Cons
Published by a third party rather than by the pharmacy chains it prints through
Only workable where participating stores exist, effectively the United States
Final pricing swings with in-app promotions and is easy to misjudge before checkout
Questions people ask
Is this the official CVS or Walgreens app?
No. It comes from 1HourPhoto, Inc. and places orders that those stores fulfil at their photo counters. The chains publish their own separate apps.
How quickly will prints be ready?
Standard prints are set up for same-day collection, often within about an hour. Larger items such as canvases and books take longer and follow a different schedule.
