About Us
We got tired of paying
$17 for a photo.
So three of us built a tool that does the same thing for a dollar, without ever asking who you are.
The story
One overpriced drugstore photo, and we'd had enough.
A few years ago, our founder needed a passport photo for a last-minute trip. The closest drugstore wanted $17 and 20 minutes. The "online" alternatives wanted $7 to $15 and asked him to upload his face to a server he had never heard of. None of it made sense.
The actual work, removing the background, checking head size, cropping to spec, can be done in a few seconds. There is no reason a photo should cost as much as a hardcover book. And there is no reason a stranger has to see your face for it to happen.
So we built One Dollar Passport Photo. Same job. One dollar. Privacy first.
What others charge
The math is not subtle.
Prices for a single set of digital passport photos, US market, April 2026.
What we believe
Three things, taken seriously.
Price
A photo should cost $1.
CVS charges $17. Walgreens charges $17. None of them are doing $16 of extra work, they are charging what the market will bear. We would rather build something a million people can afford than something a few thousand pay too much for.
Privacy
Your face is yours.
A passport photo is one of the most identifying images you own. We treat it that way. No accounts. No tracking. No copies of your face stored anywhere we could ever lose, leak, or hand over.
Speed
Three minutes, start to print.
You shouldn't need to read a 12-page government PDF to take a passport photo. We've done that reading. The tool checks your photo against the actual specs and tells you, in plain English, what to fix.
The team
Three people. No office.
We work remotely and we are camera-shy on principle. If your face is yours, ours are ours. Hello anyway.
Ty
Founder
Built the first version after paying $17 at a drugstore for a passport photo that took 20 minutes. Spends his days obsessing over crop accuracy and shaving milliseconds off the photo pipeline.
Lisa
Expert Reviewer
Reads the official photo specs from passport offices around the world so you don't have to. Reviews tricky photos when our automatic checks aren't sure, and tells us when the rules change.
Jake
Community & Writing
Answers your emails, writes the guides, and tracks down the answer to questions like "does Japan accept smiles?" (No.) If you've gotten a reply from us, it was probably from him.
Got a question? Write to us.
Feedback, a bug, or a passport office that's being weird about your photo. We read every email, usually Jake.
support@onedollarpassportphoto.comReady to stop paying $17?
Photo ready in three minutes. Compliant or your dollar back.
Start your photo for $1