A photo book from your iPhone photos without the sorting.
Upload the camera roll as it is, HEIC included. MakeAlbum filters the blur, bursts and near-duplicates, keeps each moment together in the order it happened, and lays out a 300 × 300 mm layflat hardcover for you to approve.
Thousands of photos, no album
An iPhone camera roll grows by a few hundred photos a month and almost none of them get printed. The reason is rarely the printing. It is the step before it: opening the roll, going through the bursts and the screenshots, choosing eighty frames and putting them in an order that tells the story.
Most photo book tools make that step yours. They also expect JPEGs, so an iPhone shooting HEIC means an export before you can even start. MakeAlbum takes the roll as it is and does the sorting for you, then hands the decisions back before anything is printed.
How it works, in three steps
Upload straight from the phone
Open the upload page in Safari or Chrome on the iPhone, or on a computer, and select the whole set. JPEG, HEIC / HEIF, PNG, WebP, AVIF are accepted up to 50 MB each; HEIC is converted for you. 50–200 photos per album works best.
Our AI filters and lays out the book
Every photo is scored for sharpness, exposure and duplicates and read for its EXIF time, GPS and content. Weak and repeated frames are set aside, the strongest frames are chosen to fill your page count, and each moment stays together, in the order it was taken. The album title is drafted from a short brief you write.
Review, approve, printed
Swap any photo from the tray, rename the album, add or remove pages, pick the cover. When you approve, the book is printed as a 300 × 300 mm layflat hardcover and shipped to you, tracked, with shipping included in the price.
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.
- HEIC and HEIF from the iPhone are converted on upload. No export step, no JPEG conversion app.
- Capture time and GPS from the phone's EXIF data keep the order, so a roll that spans a trip runs place by place and day by day on its own.
- Screenshots or frames that slip through the filter can be removed in the editor before you approve.
Rather not build it yourself? Add done-for-you album design (+€59) and our team curates and designs the book; you approve a preview before anything is printed. Full pricing.
Questions
Do I need to convert HEIC to JPEG first?
No. HEIC and HEIF files upload as they are and are converted for you. The accepted formats are JPEG, HEIC / HEIF, PNG, WebP, AVIF, up to 50 MB per file.
Can I upload from the iPhone itself?
Yes. The upload page works in Safari or Chrome on the phone as well as on a computer. A large set uploads faster over Wi-Fi, and you can add more photos to the album later.
What happens to Live Photos and screenshots?
A Live Photo uploads as its still frame. Screenshots and other frames you do not want in the book can be removed in the editor; nothing is printed until you approve every spread.
More in the FAQ.