Compared Updated 2 November 2026
Our pick for a trip is the TripMemo layflat. At £41.99 for a 21 × 21 cm square book, it has the lowest starting price of the hardcover layflats we checked, and takes a cover drawn for where you went, and its pages open completely flat, so a panorama runs across both pages without a fold. Here is how it compares on paper, pages, size and delivery.
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Best layflat for a trip
Layflat is the book for your widest views: the binding lets every spread lie flat, so nothing in the middle of a photo disappears into the fold. Here is why ours is the one we would choose for a trip.
Layflat books differ more than most. These are the cases where another maker's is the better buy.
Six layflat books, the same questions: how many pages, on what paper, what it costs to start, and what each does for a book of a trip.
| TripMemoOur pick | Photobox | Journi | Popsa | Mixbook | Polarsteps | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Layflat | Yes, 18 to 120 pages, landscape or square | Large and XL hardcovers (24 to 160 pages, 270gsm), and a 14 cm square softcover | Yes, up to 103 pages, from £49.99 | An upgrade on landscape hardcovers, up to 80 pages | Yes, under 100 pages | Yes, up to 120 pages |
| Lowest-priced layflat | £41.99Square layflat, 21 × 21 cm, 18 pages | £47.79Large square layflat, 21 × 21 cm, 24 pages | From £49.99Its lowest-priced layflat book (size not stated) | £54Medium landscape hardcover with the £16 layflat upgrade, 20 × 15 cm, 20 pages | £56.99Layflat, 8.5 × 8.5 in (21.6 cm square), 20 pages | Priced at checkout |
| Layflat paper | 190gsm lustre | 270gsm, with a soft sheen | 380gsm satin | 200gsm matte, gloss as an upgrade | Signature matte | Not stated on the pages we checked |
| Covers for your destination | 524 illustrated covers, each drawn for a country, city or US state | A travel template and free themes | Travel themes and passport stamps | Your own photo, with foil lettering as an extra | Travel themes, about a dozen named for a place, such as Italy, Greece and Japan | A photo from your trip |
| Built from your trip | Yes, in the app: each day of the trip becomes pages, with your notes | No: you choose and add every photo | Yes: its AI drafts the book from your photos, with maps and dates | No, but it lays out the photos you choose automatically | No: you choose and add every photo | Yes: it is built from the trip you tracked in its app |
| Map of your route | In the app: the route you recorded, on a satellite map | None listed | Automatic maps of your travels | None listed | None listed | Your tracked route |
| Where you make it | On the web, or in the TripMemo iPhone app | Website, iPhone and Android apps, and a desktop app | iPhone and Android apps, and the web | iPhone and Android apps, and the web | Website and mobile app | From a trip tracked in the Polarsteps app |
| Layflat delivery | £19 | From £4.99 | Priced at checkout | From £5.99 | Priced at checkout | Priced at checkout |
Every figure for another maker is from its own website, checked on 2 November 2026: see how we compared. TripMemo makes one of the books on this page.
Pick a cover drawn for where you went and add your photos. From £41.99.
Each maker's lowest-priced layflat book, as its own website priced it. Sizes and page counts differ, so each is named in full.
List prices before delivery and before any promotion running on the day we checked. Our UK layflat delivery is £19, more than the others charge, and it is shown with the full price at checkout, before you pay.
Five checks decide whether a layflat suits your photos, and which one to buy.
Landscape gives a panorama the most room: ours is 29.7 × 21 cm. Square (21 × 21 cm) treats portrait and landscape photos alike and takes our 524 illustrated covers. Popsa and Polarsteps print layflat in landscape only.
Layflat pages are thick, so the books are shorter: ours run from 18 to 120 pages, Photobox's to 160, Journi's to 103 and Popsa's to 80. A week away usually fills 40 to 60 pages of your best shots.
Heavier is not always better. Our 190gsm lustre has a soft sheen that keeps reflections off an open spread; Journi's 380gsm satin and Photobox's 270gsm are thicker and stiffer to turn.
A layflat is a book you keep out, so the cover matters. On a square TripMemo layflat it can be drawn for where you went, from Italy to Japan; on the landscape book, put your best photo on the front.
Compare what you will pay in total. Ours starts at £41.99 for 18 pages, plus £19 UK delivery; some makers charge less to start or less to send, so add the two before you choose.
A photo that crosses the middle of a layflat stays whole, but faces right on the centre line still look odd. Check every spread in the studio and download a PDF proof before you order.
Pick landscape or square, then a cover.
All 524 illustrated covers print on the square layflat (21 × 21 cm). Each is drawn for one place, from Amalfi's lemons to Santorini's bell towers.
USAMonument Valley road
ItalyScooter
SpainOranges
FranceCroissant & wine
CanadaRed maple leaf
GreeceEvil eye
CaliforniaBeach palms
JapanTorii at sunset
New YorkStatue of Liberty
BaliPink hibiscus
North CarolinaLighthouse & dunes
ParisEiffel Tower524 covers in all. Browse them by place: United States, Italy, Spain, France, Canada, Greece, California, Japan, New York, Bali, North Carolina, Paris, Florida, Mexico, Portugal, Texas and every design.
Five photo cover styles take your best shot of the trip: Image runs it edge to edge, Editorial sets it beside your title, and Poster, Arch and Good days frame it in their own way. Every style prints your title on the spine.
Start with a photo coverThe same layflat book either way. Choose your best wide shots in the web studio, or let the TripMemo app lay out the trip for you, route map and all.
On the web
In the iPhone app
Not sure layflat is the one? A hardcover holds more pages, and a softcover is lighter and costs less. Every cover works on all three.
from £28.49
Classic hardback.
from £26.49
Light and flexible.
from £41.99
Opens flat.
Book prices before delivery, which is priced for your address at checkout.
What each maker's layflat does well, and where ours differs.
Photobox sells layflat on its large and XL books, on heavy 270gsm pages, from 24 up to 160 pages. Its large square layflat (21 × 21 cm) is £47.79 for 24 pages, and its delivery starts at £4.99, so a short book costs less delivered than ours. It also sells a small 14 × 14 cm softcover with layflat pages, from £18.99.
What it lacks for a trip is a cover for the place: you start from a travel theme or your own photo, and nothing is built from your trip. See our Photobox comparison.
Choose Photobox if the lowest price for a small hardcover matters most, or you want a size we don't make, from 10 × 10 cm up to 39 × 29 cm.
Journi’s layflat is the heaviest we found: 380gsm satin pages, up to 103 pages, in three sizes (21 cm square, 30 cm square and 30 × 21 cm landscape), from £49.99. Its AI drafts the book from your photos with maps and dates, on iPhone, Android or a computer.
Its covers are themes and passport stamps rather than artwork for your destination, and the cheapest layflat costs more than ours to start.
Choose Journi if you want an AI-drafted book with maps on an Android phone, or more than 298 pages (it goes to 349).
Popsa offers layflat as an upgrade on its landscape hardcovers, from £16 on the medium 20 × 15 cm book to £26 on the extra large, up to 80 pages. With the upgrade, a medium book is £54 for 20 pages.
It has no square or portrait layflat, which means no square illustrated covers, and its pages are 200gsm matte, with gloss as an extra.
Choose Popsa if you want a book made on your phone in a few minutes, or a big 30 cm square book.
Mixbook’s layflat comes in 8.5 × 8.5, 10 × 10 and 11 × 8.5 in, under 100 pages, on its Signature matte paper. In its UK store the 8.5 × 8.5 in layflat is £56.99 for 20 pages.
You design every page yourself from its themes, which suits a designer more than someone home from a trip with a camera roll to sort.
Choose Mixbook if your book needs more than 298 pages (it goes to 399), or you want to design every page from a big library of themes.
Polarsteps prints its Travel Book as a Lay-Flat Premium edition of up to 120 pages, in its one landscape size, 29.7 × 21 cm. It is built from the route and photos you tracked in the Polarsteps app, and priced by page count at checkout.
If you didn’t track the trip in Polarsteps, there is no book to print. Ours can be made from any trip’s photos, in landscape or square.
Choose Polarsteps if you tracked the whole trip in Polarsteps and want one landscape book of it, up to 400 pages.
We make TripMemo, so we have an interest: read this page with that in mind. To keep it fair, every figure for another maker comes from that maker’s own website or help centre, read on the day shown, and every TripMemo figure comes from our studio and our live prices. Prices are list prices before delivery and before any sale running that day. Most of these makers run frequent promotions, so check the price on the day you order.
We judged the books on what matters for a trip: a cover that says where you went, how much of the trip fits, how the book is made from your photos, paper and binding, and the price of a comparable book. We recheck every figure at least every 90 days. Spotted something out of date? Email support@tripmemo.app and we will correct it.
This app is so fun. I love using it to store my memories! The books are so amazing!
Isabel hillJust added all my photos from Greece, it organised them … by day and made them look beautiful.
Flisstravels
All my travel photos were a mess and lost in my camera roll... now my favourite memories and places are all nicely sorted into books on the app
Elliot.l1
I love being able to organise every trip into a digital travel book and share it privately with friends and family.
Concertlover22TripMemo is hands down the best app for capturing the moments in life I never want to forget.
DhennyD
Such a cool app!This app is so fun. I love using it to store my memories! The books are so amazing!Isabel hillGreat app!Just added all my photos from Greece, it organised them … by day and made them look beautiful.FlisstravelsGave my trips a homeAll my travel photos were a mess and lost in my camera roll... now my favourite memories and places are all nicely sorted into books on the appElliot.l1Best travel journal appI love being able to organise every trip into a digital travel book and share it privately with friends and family.Concertlover22Perfect app to capture memoriesTripMemo is hands down the best app for capturing the moments in life I never want to forget.DhennyDFor a trip, we think the TripMemo layflat: it starts at £41.99 for a 21 × 21 cm square book, the lowest starting price of the hardcover layflats we checked, it takes a cover drawn for your destination, and it opens completely flat on 190gsm lustre paper. Photobox's is the choice for heavier 270gsm pages or more than 120 pages, and Journi's for the thickest, 380gsm satin pages.
A photo book whose pages open completely flat, with no curve into the spine. A photo can run across both pages of a spread without losing its middle to the fold, which is why layflat is the choice for panoramas, landscapes and wedding photos.
If your best photos are wide, yes: a panorama across a flat spread is the reason to choose it. If most of your photos are portraits and close-ups, a hardcover shows them just as well, holds more pages and usually costs less.
A hardcover's pages curve gently into the spine, like a classic book, and a TripMemo hardcover holds up to 298 pages on 200gsm gloss. A layflat's pages open completely flat, so a photo can cross both pages, but they are thicker, so it holds fewer: up to 120, about 24 mm of spine at 100 pages against 13 mm for a hardcover.
It depends on the maker. TripMemo and Polarsteps go to 120, Photobox to 160, Journi to 103, Mixbook under 100 and Popsa to 80. TripMemo's layflat starts at 18 pages, so a short trip makes a complete book.
Yes, on the square TripMemo layflat (21 × 21 cm): all 524 illustrated covers print square. The landscape layflat takes a photo cover instead, such as Image, Editorial, Poster or Arch.
£19 to a UK address, more than our hardcover and softcover delivery. It is shown with the full price at checkout, before you pay.
No. You can make the whole book here on the web, in any browser, and order it there. The iPhone app is the other way in: if you kept your trip in TripMemo, it builds the book from your days, notes and route for you.
Every book is printed to order and sent tracked. UK orders usually arrive in 5 to 8 working days, and we ship worldwide: your delivery price and date are shown at checkout, before you pay.
Make your photo book right here on the web, or in the TripMemo app on iPhone. The app does even more: it sorts your trip photos by day and place, and keeps all your trips together.
