KiiPix Smartphone Picture Printer - Snap It Up For The Holidays!

*Disclosure- I received the mentioned products courtesy of the sponsor for the purpose of this review. All opinions are genuine, based on my experience with the product, and have not been influenced by promotional items.


We're living in an age where pictures are everything. We love snapping selfies or pictures of our travels and weekend shenanigans because we have to Instagram it or it didn't happen, right? We do a quick click then send our photos off into the digital world, which is cool and all, but it's also easy to forget about those pictures when they get buried into the depths of your phone or Instafeed.  

80's Retro is making a comeback in a huge way. Just recently my 14 year old daughter told me that she needed a pair of "mom jeans", kids are back into perming their hair, and printing off Polaroid style photos is all the rage these days. We bought the girls instant picture printing cameras last year for Christmas, which they enjoy using, but the drawback with them is the same problem we had back in the day. Once you snap your pic, you're stuck with that image. There are no retakes or editing allowed. Got a goofy smile or had your eyes closed? Tough luck. You just wasted one of your photos.

What if I told you that you are no longer stuck with crummy instant film photos, but can get the same retro pictures printed straight from your phone or Instagram feed? You absolutely can with the KiiPix Smartphone Picture Printer! 

The KiiPix Smartphone Picture Printer is a easy and portable way to get instant photos straight from your smartphone. It requires No Batteries or Cords, just the KiiPix, FUJIFILM Instax mini film (affiliate link, sold separately), and your smartphone. 

Simply unfold it, pop your smartphone on top, press the little lever on the side, turn the crank, and boom. Instant photo!

When my daughter first heard of KiiPix, she got all giddy and couldn't wait to try it. The main draw for the KiiPix for her was that she gets to choose what photos get printed. Teens are all about Snapchat filters these days, which you can't get on a traditional instant camera, so talk about excitement when she realized she could get her filtered photos printed instant camera style.

How fun is that!? I'm going to be honest and say that there is a slight learning curve to using this unit. The instructions aren't very descriptive in the user guide, so our first two photos were are bit off center.

However, we are visual learners, so we found THIS VIDEO on YouTube to be very helpful in getting everything working properly. Additional tips: make sure the brightness is at 100% on your phone. Also, pictures in portrait mode look better than those in landscape once printed. Other than that, the KiiPix was super easy to use and my daughter had a blast getting instant prints off of her smartphone.

I think the KiiPix will be a hot commodity for tweens and teens this holiday season. Allison loved it so much, she said she's including it in her annual holiday gift guide this year, so if you have someone to buy for in that age set, I'd hurry up and snap one up now before the masses catch on. 

KiiPix comes in 3 different colors, pink, blue, and black and can be purchased on the KiiPix website or at large retailers such as Amazon, GameStop, Target, and Walmart. 

Do you usually print your smartphone photos, or are you guilty of leaving them stuck in your cloud?