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Our Time Away
No trip in the app required

You already took the trip.
The book is still in your phone.

Upload the photos, tell us where you went, and we compose a hardcover book from them — arranged by day, cropped around the people in them, written up day by day, and ready to read. Free to build.

Start your book — freeAny trip, any year. Nothing to install.

Somewhere on your phone there is a folder from a trip you loved. Eight hundred photos, four of them brilliant, none of them printed. It has been there for a year. This is the fastest way out of that folder.

Three steps

What it actually asks you for.

  1. 01

    Where and when

    Name the places and pick the dates. That is genuinely it — we name the trip for you from the first city and the year, and you can change it.

  2. 02

    Make it richer — optional

    Still have the old confirmation emails? Forward them, or upload the documents. Flights, hotels, tours and tickets become the days of the book, and those days shape its chapters. Skip this and you still get a book.

  3. 03

    Add your photos

    Drop in the camera roll. We sort them onto the right day, rate them, set aside the near-duplicates, and lay out the spreads. Then the editor opens with a finished draft in it.

What happens in that minute

The part that used to take an afternoon.

You pick a size and a look, say how much of the camera roll should make the cut, and the AI does the rest of it while you wait. Minutes, not an afternoon — and what you get back is a finished book to argue with, not an empty template.

№01

Choose a size and a look.

A handful of hardcover trims and a few looks, each with its own typeface and palette. The cover on the right redraws as you change your mind, so you are choosing with your eyes instead of reading a spec sheet. Nothing is locked in — change it after the book is built if you want.

The book setup screen: hardcover sizes across the top, three looks to choose from below, and a live preview of the cover on the right.
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The photo filter dialog: four choices for how many photos make the cut, from just the best through to everything, with an estimate of the page count and price underneath.
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You decide how much of the camera roll makes the cut — and it tells you the page count and the price before you commit.
The build panel while a book is being made, listing its progress: picking your photos, writing your story, rendering maps.
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Then it goes to work: picking the photos, writing the story, drawing the maps.
  • It picks the ones worth printing.

    Every photo gets scored, and the near-identical frames get grouped into a single moment and ranked. You get the one where everyone was looking — not ten of the same doorway.

  • It crops around the people.

    Faces and animals are found before anything is cropped, so a photo that has to fit a tall page leads with your daughter rather than the top of a wall.

  • It lays out the pages.

    Photos are sized against each other and placed onto spreads day by day, with a map rendered for where you actually were.

  • It writes the story.

    An opening for the book, a paragraph for each day pulled from your itinerary and your journal, and a closing note at the end. All of it yours to rewrite.

№02

Open it and change your mind.

Every day arrives already written, with a map of where you were and the places you went underneath the date. Swap a photo, rewrite a line, combine two quiet days into one, reorder the pictures.

Or change nothing at all and order it exactly as it came.

A finished day in the book editor: a map of Cuba, the heading Day 1, the places visited listed underneath, and a written paragraph describing the day.
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Hands holding open a photo book to a spread of small photographs arranged in a grid.
Why ours

The book you couldn't have made from a camera roll.

  • It is built around days, not a pile.

    Most photo-book apps see a folder of images. This one sees a trip — first day, last day, the places in between — so the book reads in the order you lived it.

  • It fills the page, and crops around the people.

    Empty white bars around a photo waste the page. Cropping without looking cuts heads off. We fill the page and lead the crop with the subject, so neither happens.

  • You do not start from a blank page.

    The draft is finished before you see it — laid out, cropped, written, covers picked. Change everything or change nothing. Most people change a little.

  • Nothing is charged until you order.

    Building the book, previewing every spread and editing it are all free. You pay when you want it printed and shipped to you.

What arrives

A real hardcover book.

The cover
Rigid matte-laminated hardcover with a printed spine, so it reads like a book on a shelf.
The pages
Heavy gloss stock that holds deep color. PUR-bound, 30 to 200 pages, scaled to how much you shot.
The sizes
Four hardcover trims — 8×8 square, 9×11 tall, 11×9 wide and 12×12 large square. Pick at any point, including late.

Not sure yet? See the whole book in detail.

And next time

Do it the other way round.

This page is for the trip that already happened. For the next one, the app rides along the whole way — forwarded confirmations become a shared itinerary, a couple of prompts a day become the writing in the book, and everyone on the trip gets their own copy at the end. Same account, no extra cost.

How a trip works →
Ready when you are

That folder deserves better than a folder.

Start your book — free
Free to build and preview. You only pay if you order a printed copy.