Android app · Free

Printly

A photo of a document usually prints badly: grey background, a shadow from your own hand, text that comes out muddy. Printly fixes that in one step, so what leaves the printer looks like a scan.

Coming soon to Google Play.

What it does

Finds the page

Printly detects the edges of the document in frame and corrects the perspective, so a photo taken at an angle comes out square.

Removes shadows

Uneven lighting and the shadow of the phone itself are flattened out, leaving an even white background instead of a grey gradient.

True black and white

Text is pushed to solid black on solid white — the mode that prints crisply and uses the least ink. Greyscale and colour are there when you need them.

Multi-page documents

Shoot pages back to back, reorder or retake any of them, then export the whole set as a single PDF.

Prints directly

Send straight to any printer your phone can already see through Android's built-in print system. No extra driver, no companion app.

Takes shared images

Photos already on your phone, or sent to you in a chat, can be shared into Printly and cleaned up the same way.

Privacy, in one paragraph

Printly has no internet permission. It is not able to send your documents anywhere, even if it wanted to. Every step — edge detection, shadow removal, black-and-white conversion, PDF export — runs on your phone's own processor. There are no accounts, no analytics, no advertising SDKs, and no servers of ours involved at any point.

The full text is on the privacy policy page.

Requirements and permissions

Platform: Android
Price: Free. No subscription, no in-app purchases.
Internet: Not required and not requested. The app works fully offline.
Camera: Required, to photograph the pages you want to scan.
Vibration: Used for the short shutter confirmation when a page is captured.
Storage: On Android 9 and older only, to save exported files to your Downloads folder. Android 10 and newer do not need this permission.

Need help?

Something not working, or a page that won't come out right? Send us the details and we'll take a look.

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