The app features 30 unique photo filters, including 10 classic Polaroid filters. Each filter is adjustable in strength, vignette and emulsion artifacts, adding an even more realistic look to users' ...

Polaroid's Now+ can do a lot more than take a pic. Credit: Polaroid The classic instant photo experience is leveling up with Polaroid's new camera and updated Bluetooth app.

Most of the apps have sufficient free versions, but the costs are low if you wish to pay—and the cost is always cheaper than printed film photos, whether Polaroid, Instax, or film rolls.

Polaroid photos and film have a nostalgic, warm and fuzzy feeling. That’s my opinion, at least. But the cameras can be a hassle to carry around and film is really expensive.

Polaroid Originals announced its Polaroid Lab product that lets people print their smartphone photos on Polaroid film. The Lab takes a photo of a photo on a smartphone screen to pull it off.

The Polaroid Lab won’t go on sale until October 10, but I’ve spent some time with a prerelease unit and beta versions of its accompanying iPhone and Android apps.

“Meet the Polaroid Lab, our new, one of a kind creation, turning your digital photos into real Polaroid pictures. The Polaroid Lab works with 100% real chemistry and a little bit of magic.

Google’s new PhotoScan app, launching for iPhone and Android on Tuesday, aims to make it easier to preserve film photos on your smartphone.