Compared Updated 2 November 2026
Our pick is TripMemo. It has 524 covers drawn for the places people travel, and you can make the book on the web in minutes or let the iPhone app build it from your trip, route map and all. Below, how it compares with Journi, Polarsteps, Photobox, Popsa and Mixbook.
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Best overall for travel
A travel photo book should say where you went before anyone opens it, hold the whole trip and be easy to make once you are home. That is the book TripMemo is built to make.
No photo book suits everyone. These are the cases where we would point you elsewhere.
Six makers, the same questions. The first three rows are what matter most for a trip: a cover for your destination, a book built from your trip and a map of your route.
| TripMemoOur pick | Journi | Polarsteps | Photobox | Popsa | Mixbook | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Covers for your destination | 524 illustrated covers, each drawn for a country, city or US state | Travel themes and passport stamps | A photo from your trip | A travel template and free themes | Your own photo, with foil lettering as an extra | Travel themes, about a dozen named for a place, such as Italy, Greece and Japan |
| Built from your trip | Yes, in the app: each day of the trip becomes pages, with your notes | Yes: its AI drafts the book from your photos, with maps and dates | Yes: it is built from the trip you tracked in its app | No: you choose and add every photo | No, but it lays out the photos you choose automatically | No: you choose and add every photo |
| Map of your route | In the app: the route you recorded, on a satellite map | Automatic maps of your travels | Your tracked route | None listed | None listed | None listed |
| Where you make it | On the web, or in the TripMemo iPhone app | iPhone and Android apps, and the web | From a trip tracked in the Polarsteps app | Website, iPhone and Android apps, and a desktop app | iPhone and Android apps, and the web | Website and mobile app |
| Bindings | Hardcover, softcover and layflat | Softcover, hardcover and layflat | Hardcover, with a layflat option | Hardcover, softcover, layflat and window covers | Hardcover and softcover, with a layflat upgrade | Softcover, hardcover, layflat and album |
| Shapes | Portrait, landscape and square | Portrait, landscape and square | Landscape only, one size (29.7 × 21 cm) | Portrait, landscape and square | Landscape and square (no portrait) | Square, portrait and landscape |
| Pages | 18 to 298 (layflat up to 120) | Up to 349 (layflat up to 103) | Up to 400 (layflat up to 120) | 24 to 160 (softcover 24 to 60) | 20 to 150 | 20 to 399 (layflat under 100) |
| Paper | 200gsm gloss (softcover 150gsm gloss, layflat 190gsm lustre) | 170gsm matte (layflat 380gsm satin) | Not stated on the pages we checked | 200gsm, satin or gloss (layflat 270gsm) | 200gsm matte, gloss as an upgrade | Semi-gloss, matte or lustre |
| Layflat | Yes, 18 to 120 pages, landscape or square | Yes, up to 103 pages, from £49.99 | Yes, up to 120 pages | Large and XL hardcovers (24 to 160 pages, 270gsm), and a 14 cm square softcover | An upgrade on landscape hardcovers, up to 80 pages | Yes, under 100 pages |
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 £28.49.
No two makers sell exactly the same book, so here is each one's nearest to an A5 hardcover, at its fewest pages, as its own website priced it.
List prices before delivery and before any promotion running on the day we checked. Journi gives only a starting price, and Polarsteps prices its Travel Book by page count at checkout.
The right binding, size and length depend on the trip. Here is what we would choose for each, and the covers to start from.
A layflat, square or A4 landscape, so the views run across both pages without a fold; 40 to 80 pages holds the best of two weeks. Covers for honeymoon favourites such as the Maldives, Bali and Greece.
An A4 hardcover with room for every mile: up to 298 pages. Record the drive in the TripMemo app and the book can print your route on a satellite map. Covers for the United States and its states, from Arizona to California.
A hardcover for your own shelf, and copies for the grandparents: order up to ten of one book, or put two or three different trips in one checkout and each extra book costs less. Covers for Florida, Mallorca and Portugal.
An A5 softcover from 20 pages: light, quick to fill and our lowest price, from £26.49. Covers for Paris, London, Rome and Lisbon.
One hardcover of up to 298 pages, or a book for each country. If you kept the trip in TripMemo, the app lays out every day for you, with your notes beside the photos.
A year in review book: every trip of the year in one, with a year cover. Made in the app, the Year Book opens each trip on its own page and closes with your stats for the year.
Whatever the trip, it starts with its cover.
524 illustrated covers for countries, cities and US states. Most photo book makers offer a handful of travel themes; TripMemo draws a cover for the place itself.
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 covers, the same three books and the same printing, however you make it. Home with a camera roll full of photos? Use the web. Kept the trip in TripMemo? Let the app build it.
On the web
In the iPhone app
Hardcover for the shelf, softcover for a weekend away, layflat for panoramas. Every cover works on every book.
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 does well, and what it means for a book of your trip.
Journi is the closest to TripMemo: a travel journal app that also prints. Its AI drafts the book from your photos with maps and dates, and you finish it on your phone or a computer, on iPhone or Android. Hardcover and softcover books go up to 349 pages, and its layflat books, on thick 380gsm satin paper, start at £49.99.
For a trip, the gap is the cover: Journi offers travel themes and passport stamps rather than a cover drawn for your destination. Its standard pages are 170gsm matte, lighter than the 200gsm gloss of a TripMemo hardcover.
Choose Journi if you want an AI-drafted book with maps on an Android phone, or more than 298 pages (it goes to 349).
Polarsteps tracks your route as you travel and turns the trip into a Travel Book: a landscape hardcover, 29.7 × 21 cm, of up to 400 pages, or a layflat of up to 120. If you tracked every step in Polarsteps, it is a natural choice.
The catch is that the book comes only from a trip tracked in its app, in one shape and one size. TripMemo prints any trip on the web from the photos you already have, in portrait, landscape or square. For the apps themselves, see our Polarsteps alternative page.
Choose Polarsteps if you tracked the whole trip in Polarsteps and want one landscape book of it, up to 400 pages.
Photobox is the UK’s big all-rounder, with books from 10 × 10 cm to 39 × 29 cm. Its medium portrait hardcover is £25.99 for 24 pages, less than TripMemo’s A5 hardcover at £28.49, and its layflat pages are a heavy 270gsm.
For a trip, you start from a template rather than from where you went: there is a travel theme, but no cover drawn for the place and no map of your route, and books stop at 160 pages. Read the full 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.
Popsa is the quickest way from a camera roll to a book: its app lays out the photos you choose, in landscape or square books up to 35 × 26 cm. A medium 20 × 15 cm hardcover is £38 for 20 pages, and layflat is an upgrade, up to 80 pages.
It makes no portrait books, has no covers made for a destination and stops at 150 pages. Read the full Popsa comparison.
Choose Popsa if you want a book made on your phone in a few minutes, or a big 30 cm square book.
Mixbook is the designer’s choice: a large library of themes, about a dozen of them named for places such as Italy, Greece and Japan, and books of up to 399 pages. Its glossy 8.5 × 8.5 in hardcover is £24.99 for 20 pages in its UK store.
You design it page by page from the photos you upload: nothing is built from your trip, and there is no map of your route. Read the full Mixbook comparison.
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.
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 book of one trip, we think TripMemo. It has 524 covers drawn for countries, cities and US states, you can make it on the web in minutes or let the iPhone app build it from your trip with a map of your route, and it prints up to 298 pages. Journi is the closest alternative if you use Android, Mixbook if you need more pages and Photobox if the lowest price matters most.
TripMemo, Journi and Polarsteps. In the TripMemo iPhone app, the book can include the route you recorded, drawn on a satellite map. On the TripMemo website, the book opens with a map page of the country or state you visited, with your places and dates. Journi adds automatic maps of your travels, and Polarsteps prints the route you tracked.
For most trips, a hardcover with gloss pages: TripMemo's are 200gsm, which keeps colours rich and the book sturdy. If your best shots are wide landscapes, choose layflat, whose pages open completely flat so a panorama runs across both pages without a fold.
It depends on how many photos you keep. At two or three photos a page, 100 photos fill about 40 pages. TripMemo hardcovers run from 24 to 298 pages, so a weekend away and a gap year both fit.
Not for the smallest books. A Photobox medium portrait hardcover (15 × 20 cm, 24 pages) lists at £25.99, and a TripMemo A5 hardcover (14.8 × 21 cm, 24 pages) is £28.49. What TripMemo adds is the travel: covers drawn for your destination, up to 298 pages against Photobox's 160, and books built from your trip in the app.
Yes. TripMemo's web studio works in any phone browser, and the TripMemo iPhone app builds the book from your trip for you. Popsa, Journi and Polarsteps are also made in apps.
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.
