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We've used all of these, so we're going to say right now that for Apple users, the exiting Photo Print service is superior to all of these from an integration, variety, and overall quality standpoint hands down. All of these services have their strong points, and weak spots. Unfortunately, there's no real way to pick a best offering overall —because there isn't one. However, if you shop smart, and order a product based on the strengths of the company, you can get the same quality product that you'd get from Photo Print. Shutterfly Of the services without a retail outlet, may be the best known.

The vendor has just about anything you could want, including not just standard items like prints, cards, stationery, calendars, albums, and photo books, but eccentric options like pillows, plaques, growlers, and even towels. If you like you can get a custom-printed iPhone case, available for every model from the iPhone 5 through the iPhone X. Critically, the company has a free for the macOS Photos app. This may make it a more direct repalcement for Photo Print Products, although current ratings for the software aren't so hot. By default Shutterfly offers photo books in seven sizes, with up to 30 pictures per page and a limit of 1,000 total pictures. Prices start at $14.39 and you can choose to use template books or take more direct control of pictures, text, and backgrounds. The company also offers a 'Make My Book' service which adds a $9.99 fee on top of whatever book you order.

Wall calendars typically start at $19.99, but there are also easel, desk, and poster calendars, or if you insist, there's a $10.39 calendar mousepad. 's offerings may be a little more tame compared to Shutterfly, but they'll still probably have what you want.

Assuming you don't go with the company's special 'accordion mini' options, photo books start at $19.99 for a 20-page 5x5 art cloth hardcover. There are plenty of other options though, up through a $118.99 premium panoramic book with a custom cover and deep matte photographic paper.

A standard 11x8.5 or 12x18 wall calendar is $20. You can also get accordion mini calendars for about the same price, or a dry-erase calendar that starts at $29.99 for 16x12. The company's can be used to order a range of products, including prints in materials like metal, wood, and canvas. Offers cheaper photo books, costing as little as $12.99 for a 20-page softcover. You can design your own or choose from assorted templates.

If you want to go all-out, the most expensive option is a $109.99 'premium layflat' 8x11 hardcover. The company has a relatively small assortment of wall and desk calendars, but you can spend as little as $9.99 on the latter. There is no Mac software, but Snapfish does have an which can be used to order just about anything without even touching a computer. You can also get up to 100 free 4x6 prints per month for ordering from the app, albeit with a. Nations Photo Lab.

If you want to go even cheaper on photo books, has what it calls 'buzz books' — 40-page, 6x6 softcovers for $10.05. The site's regular hardcover books start at $19.43 for 10 pages, and go up to $52.93 for 12x12 leather with lay-flat semi-gloss paper. Of course 10 pages isn't much, so expect to pay more than the sticker price. Wall calendars — custom or using six different templates — start at $9.35, but you'll pay more if you want decent-quality paper, more likely between $12.40 and $15.74. Nations lacks a Photos extension or even an iOS app. It does have Mac-compatible ordering software called, but for the average person there's likely little advantage over using the Web.

Adorama is probably better known for selling camera gear and other electronics, but is out there for those of us who already have our photos in hand. The vendor charges $19.99 for an 8x8 softcover book, and the decadent can scale up to a leather 12x15 that costs a whopping $169.99. Calendar-wise there are desktop, standard wall-flip center-fold, and top-hanging 12x18 calendars. These range between $12.99 and $29.99 and support a lot of personalization, including the ability to make photos the backgrounds for important dates. Adorama actually has several iOS apps:, for the iPhone, for the iPad, and for ordering metal prints.

Uploader and aPix seem problematic, so like Nations you may want to stick to Web designs. Naturally, it's hard to talk about digital printing services without talking about retail behemoths like. They offer many of the same things as services like Shutterfly with the convenience of being able to walk into a local store for pickup. As you'd expect, you can go dirt cheap at Walmart, but don't expect to get much until you pony up, relatively speaking. The cheapest photo book is a $3.98 2x3 'mini' with 24 pages.

Regular softcovers start at $8, hardcovers at $14.96, either with 20 pages. The main drawback is a lack of high-end options, since you can't get any better than 'premium' lay-flat hardcovers, falling short of Apple's offerings. The retailer does have a variety of, including wall, desk, easel, poster, and planning. You can spend as little as 59 cents on a whole-year poster, though realistically, you'll probably want to pay for something nicer. An 8x11 wall calendar is $17.47. Walmart doesn't have a mobile or desktop app for its Photo service. Like Walmart, doesn't have many options when it comes to photo books.

These can range in size from 4x6 to 12x12, and from $7.99 to $49.99 or more, but don't hope for anything better than a lay-flat or hardcover. Leather isn't even a choice.

Are even more limited, split between $9.99 desktop calendars and a handful of wall calendars costing either $19.99 or $29.99. One thing CVS does have is an, but don't expect too much out of it. It's the same app the pharmacy uses for coupons and prescriptions, and not meant for anything more complex than prints or cards. Seems to be a little bit better than CVS when it comes to books. You can start small at a 25-page, 4x4 'PrintBook' for $6.99, and scale up to $69.99 for a 'premium' lay-flat, with dozens of templates. Curiously, leather is only available for the normally cheaper window-cover format. There also doesn't seem to be much personalization available for the higher-end books.

The most customizable products are actually 15-page 8.5x11 books available for same-day pickup. There are just: a $9.99 desktop, wall calendars starting at $19.99, and whole-year calendar posters costing $10.99. Another area where Walgreens beats CVS is with its.

You can use it to order anything available for same-day pickup, including books, calendars, and even metal and canvas prints. Is another specialist in the photo printing world, with 20-page books ranging in size from a 4x6 softcover to a 12x12 hardcover, the latter of which can use black or white leather if you so choose. Prices run from $9.99 to $49.99.

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As with most photo services you can add extra pages, but here only in two-page add-ons costing between 75 cents to $1.95, depending on the dimensions of the book. The service doesn't have as many options as outfits like Shutterfly though, and in fact its calendars are limited to $9.99 10x5 desk designs, and 8x11 ($19.99) or 11x14 ($32.99) wall options. To its credit though, it does offer hundreds of background designs for desk calendars, and on wall calendars individual dates can be given custom images and clip art. York does have an, but we would steer well clear. It has poor reviews, and visually resembles apps from 2012.

It hasn't been updated since July 2017, which is either a sign that a complete overhaul is coming or that the company is throwing it under a bus.

Sad news: Apple is discontinuing its photo printing services, which enabled you to create and order physical prints, cards, calendars, and books from within Photos on the Mac. If you’re building such a project right now, be sure to place your order before September 30th, 2018. After that, Apple is directing users to download a Photos Project Extension from the Mac App Store. You’ll see this dialog whenever you click a project in Photos. When you click the Open App Store button, Photos opens the App Store app and shows available Photos Project Extensions. (If you need to open this Mac App Store screen manually, search on appex:com.apple.photo-project.) Most of these extensions are free, since they’ll make their money when you order projects. These extensions aren’t exact replacements for Apple’s projects, so let’s look briefly at what they provide.

Mimeo Photos The extension that comes closest to providing the same products and features as Apple’s print projects is, which can create cards, calendars, and books. It offers a wide array of themes. Motif looks quite similar to Mimeo Photos, also enabling you to create cards, calendars, and books with selected photos, and it comes from RR Donnelley, the company that was previously Apple’s partner for print projects. It doesn’t offer as many themes or options as Mimeo Photos, but it has a better interface. Shutterfly Even though the popular photo service’s Web site lets you go beyond the basics to put your photos on a vast number of objects, such as pillows, candles, and trivets, the company’s Photos extension is limited to photo books. Happily, it provides quite a few different sizes and bindings, and numerous themes for each.

Fujifilm Prints & Gifts The extension lets you order prints, cards, wall art, mugs and drinkware, magnets, T-shirts, puzzles, iPhone cases, and much more. However, it has a non-standard interface (basically the company’s Web site), and every time we switched out of the extension, it crashed and forgot which photo we’d had selected. Mpix Although seems to focus on prints, if you scroll down in the project list, the final option is Browse Mpix, which provides more possibilities, including photo books, calendars, collages, foil art prints, posters, keychains, magnets, playing cards, and business cards. Confusingly, with some of these items, Photos acts as nothing more than a window onto Mpix’s Web site, with no awareness of the photos you’ve selected. WhiteWall focuses entirely on prints, with high-end choices for exotic papers and options for mounting and framing. Supported sizes range from 8″ x 6″ up to 48″ x 36″. Unfortunately, the WhiteWall prices seemed high (a framed photo was between $130 and $530, depending on size), and once you select a particular paper or frame choice, there is no way to try another with the same photo without starting another project.

Wix Unlike all the others, the Wix extension doesn’t put photos on physical products at all. Instead, it’s designed to create on-screen photo albums for Web sites designed with the service.

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As such, it’s potentially extremely useful for Wix users, but not at all for everyone else. It’s too bad that Apple is getting out of the print project business since the interfaces from these extensions tend not to be as good as what we’re used to from Apple.

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But if you like making yourself a calendar every year, you’ll probably do fine with Mimeo Photos or Motif, and the rest of the extensions do extend Photos’ printing capabilities in a big way. Social Media: As of September 30th, you won’t be able to order prints, cards, calendars, or books from Apple in Photos. But several extensions do most of what Apple did, and others go well beyond!