---
title: "SophiePrint, square prints from your phone"
description: "SophiePrint is a Windows Phone app for ordering square prints of your photos, from the camera roll or Instagram, printed by a print shop and sent to your door."
url: "https://rayson.me/writing/sophieprint/"
category: "Pitches"
author: "Janarayson"
published: 2014-08-08
---

We're working on SophiePrint, an app for printing the photos on your phone. You pick your photos from the camera roll or from Instagram, and they come to your door as square matte prints, in Malaysia and Singapore for now. A print shop does the printing, and we do the app.

It's on Windows Phone, because that's what we're already working on ... [SophieLens](/writing/nokia-world-abu-dhabi-sophielens-hd/) and the rest.

<Figure
  src={logo}
  alt="The SophiePrint logo: a white heart drawn as one line inside a white instant-photo frame, on red"
  caption="The logo."
  small
/>

## The first round

The first round of designs was in May, on the Lumia 920. We planned a whole range of things to print: photo prints, photo strips, photo books, photo frames, and squares in three sizes. You pick a format, pick your photos, watch the count go up in your working set, then check out.

<Screens
  screens={[
    { src: mockSplash, alt: 'A blue Lumia 920 showing the red SophiePrint splash screen with the logo, and Developed by the cool guys from Nerd Attack along the bottom' },
    { src: mockPrints, alt: 'A yellow Lumia 920 showing the main screen: SOPHIE PRINT, Printing Simplified, and a Photo Print panel of instant photos on a wooden floor' },
    { src: mockStrips, alt: 'The main screen swiped across to Photo Strips, a pile of photo-booth strips' },
    { src: mockSquares, alt: 'The Photo Prints page with Squares and Mini Squares panels' },
    { src: mockWorking, alt: 'The working set for Square: five photos picked, and 5/18 in the corner' },
  ]}
  caption="The first round, on the Lumia 920."
/>

<Figure
  src={formats}
  alt="Seven format panels: Photo Print, Photo Strips, Photo Book and Photo Frame in purple, and Squares, Mini Squares and Large Squares in red"
  caption="The formats we planned at first."
  wide
/>

## Squares

By the end of July it was down to two, Squares and Mini Squares, on a wood background with "Printing simplified" under the name. The photos in it are now our own test prints. Picking photos is two buttons, camera roll or Instagram. We've started building it too.

<Screens
  screens={[
    { src: splash, alt: 'The red splash screen with the SophiePrint logo' },
    { src: main, alt: 'The main screen on wood: SOPHIE PRINT, Printing Simplified, a Squares panel of prints pegged on a string, and a Mini Squares panel of small prints on a rusty surface' },
    { src: pick, alt: 'Pick Photos: You can pick photos from your camera roll or even from Instagram, with a green camera roll button and a blue Instagram button' },
  ]}
  caption="The second round."
/>

These are the test prints.

<Figure
  src={printsString}
  alt="Four square prints with white borders pegged on a string with blue and yellow pegs against a white wall: a pink umbrella, a car mirror, toast with jam and coffee, and the sea"
  caption="Squares, pegged on a string."
  wide
/>

<Figure
  src={printsRust}
  alt="A handful of mini square prints scattered on a rusty metal surface"
  caption="Mini Squares."
  wide
/>

<Figure
  src={printsWood}
  alt="Four square prints laid out on a wooden table: the sea, toast and coffee, a pink umbrella, and a car mirror"
  caption="Four Squares on wood."
  wide
/>