The wedding your guests photographed in one book.
The photographer's album is one side of the day. The other side is on thirty phones: the getting ready, the table, the dancing. MakeAlbum takes all of it, removes the blur and the repeats, orders it by time and lays out a 300 × 300 mm layflat hardcover you approve before printing.
Thirty phones, one day
Guest photos arrive in a shared album or a group chat: hundreds of frames, several of every moment, taken on different phones with different ideas about focus. Sorting them by hand means comparing near-identical shots of the same toast and guessing at the order of the evening.
The pre-filter is built for exactly that. It compares frames across phones to find near-duplicates, drops the blurred and badly exposed ones, and uses each photo's capture time to put the day back in order before you see a single spread.
How it works, in three steps
Gather the files in one place
Download the photos from wherever your guests shared them into one folder, then upload the whole folder. Mixed formats from iPhone and Android are fine: JPEG, HEIC / HEIF, PNG, WebP, AVIF, up to 50 MB each and up to 500 photos per album. Add the photographer's JPEGs too if you like.
The AI removes repeats and orders the day
Near-duplicates are detected across phones, not just within one. Blurred and badly exposed frames are set aside. The rest is clustered by capture time and content into chapters, for example the morning, the ceremony, the dinner and the dancing, and each chapter gets a draft title from your brief.
Name the chapters, approve, printed
Rename chapters with the real names and places, swap in any frame the filter set aside, choose the cover. On approval the album is printed as a 300 × 300 mm layflat hardcover, 26 to 80 pages, and shipped tracked with shipping included.
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.
- Duplicate detection works across phones, so five guests' versions of the first dance become one frame in the book.
- A brief with the couple's names, the venue and the date grounds the chapter titles and captions.
- Up to 80 pages for a full day, priced per page.
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
The photos come from different phones with different clocks. Does that matter?
Chapters are built from each photo's EXIF capture time, so a phone set to the wrong time can land its photos in the wrong chapter. You can move any photo between chapters in the editor before you approve.
Can guests upload directly to the album?
Not at the moment. One account uploads the set, so collect the photos first, in a shared album, a chat group or however your guests shared them, and upload them together.
Can I include the professional photographer's photos as well?
Yes. Upload their JPEGs alongside the guest photos, up to 50 MB per file. The curation treats them like any other frame, and you can pin the ones you want by swapping them in from the tray.
More in the FAQ.