The best shots from a trip are spread across eight phones and nobody ever collects them. Send one link instead: each person adds their own photos and what was happening, and it comes back as a finished book.
Start a trip book See how it worksEvery trip ends the same way. Someone makes a shared album, four of the nine people add to it, the photos sit at chat resolution, and within a month nobody has looked at it again. The good picture of everyone at the table on the second night is still on one person's phone, uncaptioned, sliding down a camera roll.
Moving the work to each traveller fixes both halves. People upload their own photos at full quality, and they write the caption themselves — which matters, because the person who took the shot is the only one who remembers the wrong turn, the name of the restaurant, or why everybody is laughing.
Groups do this for family trips, reunion holidays, a big anniversary journey, a graduation trip, a hiking group's season, and the trip that will not be repeated because of who was on it.
Contributions collapse once people are back at work. The week after the trip is the window.
The trip name, a cover shot, the dates, and a deadline while it is all still fresh.
Straight into the trip group chat. Contributors open it and upload — no app, no account, no shared-folder invitations.
Each person's photos are arranged into finished pages with their own captions. You review before anything is included.
Order the hardcover, or download the free PDF. Copies for everyone who came is the common ending.
It solves the two things that kill every trip album: collecting the photos, and captioning them.
Everyone uploads their own. You never receive a single loose file or a compressed chat image.
Pages of four to nine images are laid out automatically, matched to what each person actually submitted.
Images are enhanced on upload, so the good camera and the old phone sit on facing pages without it showing.
Written by whoever took the photo, which is the only person who knows what was going on in it.
Nobody is cropping and arranging. The book assembles itself as pages arrive.
One project, as many printed copies as the group wants, and everyone can chip in at $1.25 a page.
Ask for the story, not just the photo, or you get a book of scenery.
Nothing is owed until you order a book, and gifts from contributors apply straight to the print cost.
Create the project, invite everyone, and gather photos and stories for free. You only pay if you print.
A 10-inch square matte hardcover with matte interior pages, plus shipping. Extra pages are $1.25 each.
Friends and family can chip in toward printing — each $1.25 covers one page of the finished book.
A shared album is storage. This produces a printed book: photos come in at full quality, each one carries the caption of the person who took it, and the pages are laid out for you.
Within a week or two. Contributions drop off sharply once everyone is back in routine, so send the link while people still have the photos at the top of their camera roll.
Enough that the limit is rarely the issue — pages hold four to nine images each, and the book grows with the group. Cost scales by page, at $1.25 per page beyond the first 20.
No. The link opens in a browser, they upload and write, and that is the whole process. Nothing to install.
Yes — additional copies of the same book can be ordered, which is what most groups do.
A hardcover is $34.95 for the first 20 pages, then $1.25 for each page after that, plus shipping. A forty-page trip book comes to about $59.95. The PDF is free.
Other occasions people build books for.
Start the project, drop the link in the group chat, and turn nine camera rolls into one book.
Start a trip book