A printed book from Google Photos without picking the photos one by one.
Google Photos keeps everything and prints almost nothing. Download an album or a date range, upload the whole set here, and our own AI, built for photo books, drops the blur and the duplicates, groups the rest into chapters and lays out a 300 × 300 mm layflat hardcover you approve before it prints.
The library is not the album
Google Photos is where the pictures live, but a library of four thousand photos is not something you can hand to your parents. Its own print products ask you to choose every page, and the choosing is exactly the part nobody does.
The way out is to stop choosing. Export the album or the months you want, upload everything, heart a few must-haves, and let the AI do the first pass: it keeps the sharp frames, one of each burst, and builds chapters by place and day. Then you edit what you like and order, 26 to 80 pages.
How it works, in three steps
Export from Google Photos
Select an album or a date range in Google Photos and download it (Google Takeout works for a whole library). HEIC, JPEG and the rest are accepted as they come: JPEG, HEIC / HEIF, PNG, WebP, AVIF, up to 50 MB each.
Upload the whole set
Drop the folder into MakeAlbum, up to 300 photos per album (50–200 works best). The AI reads capture dates and places from the files, so the chapters follow the trip or the year in order.
Review and order
Flip through the spreads, swap photos, rename chapters, then order. Printed by Saal Digital, shipping included, nothing printed before you approve.
The full version, step by step, is on How it works.
What you get
- 300 × 300 mm square hardcover with layflat binding, so a photo can cross the spine.
- 26 to 80 interior pages, €199 to €349, priced per page, shipping included.
- JPEG, HEIC / HEIF, PNG, WebP, AVIF accepted up to 50 MB each; 50–200 photos per album works best.
- Unlimited editing before approval: swap photos, reorder spreads, rename chapters, rewrite captions, re-roll layouts, pick the cover.
- Tracked shipping to 25 EU countries plus United Kingdom, United States; typically 6–10 working days door to door after approval.
- Google's edits (crops, filters) travel with the exported file, so the book shows the photo as you kept it.
- Capture dates and GPS from Google Photos exports are used for chapter order and titles.
- The same works for iCloud Photos and any folder on a computer.
Rather not build it yourself? Add done-for-you album design (+€59) and our team curates, designs and captions the book; you approve a preview before anything is printed. Full pricing.
Questions
Does MakeAlbum connect to my Google Photos account?
No. You download the photos you want from Google Photos and upload them here; nothing is read from your account, and the upload is deleted on our side after the retention period.
Can I upload a whole year?
An album takes up to 300 photos, and a bigger selection is trimmed evenly across the set on the way in. For a whole year, export the months that matter or make two books.
What about the photos Google marked as favourites?
Favourites in Google Photos do not export as a flag, so heart them here after the upload: our AI hearts the strongest frames first and you adjust the choice in a minute.
More in the FAQ.