Compared Updated 2 November 2026
Mixbook is made for designers; TripMemo is made for travel. If you want a cover drawn for where you went (524 of them, against Mixbook's dozen or so place themes), or a book the iPhone app builds from your trip with your route, TripMemo is the alternative we would choose. Here is how it compares with Mixbook, Shutterfly, Journi and Polarsteps.
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Our pick
Mixbook gives you a blank canvas and a library of themes to fill it. TripMemo starts from the trip itself, and that shows in five places.
Mixbook is the better choice for some books, and each alternative has its own case.
The same questions put to every maker, with TripMemo first. For travel, the first three rows matter most: a cover for your destination, a book built from your trip and a map of your route.
| TripMemoOur pick | Mixbook | Shutterfly | Journi | Polarsteps | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Covers for your destination | 524 illustrated covers, each drawn for a country, city or US state | Travel themes, about a dozen named for a place, such as Italy, Greece and Japan | Photo book styles and themes | Travel themes and passport stamps | 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 | No, but its designers can lay the book out for you | 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 |
| Map of your route | In the app: the route you recorded, on a satellite map | None listed | None listed | Automatic maps of your travels | Your tracked route |
| Pages | 18 to 298 (layflat up to 120) | 20 to 399 (layflat under 100) | 20 to 111 (flush mount up to 70) | Up to 349 (layflat up to 103) | Up to 400 (layflat up to 120) |
| Shapes | Portrait, landscape and square | Square, portrait and landscape | Square, portrait and landscape | Portrait, landscape and square | Landscape only, one size (29.7 × 21 cm) |
| Bindings | Hardcover, softcover and layflat | Softcover, hardcover, layflat and album | Softcover, hardcover, layflat and flush mount | Softcover, hardcover and layflat | Hardcover, with a layflat option |
| Paper | 200gsm gloss (softcover 150gsm gloss, layflat 190gsm lustre) | Semi-gloss, matte or lustre | Matte standard pages, satin on deluxe layflat | 170gsm matte (layflat 380gsm satin) | Not stated on the pages we checked |
| Layflat | Yes, 18 to 120 pages, landscape or square | Yes, under 100 pages | Standard and deluxe layflat, up to 111 pages | Yes, up to 103 pages, from £49.99 | Yes, up to 120 pages |
| Where you make it | On the web, or in the TripMemo iPhone app | Website and mobile app | Website and app | iPhone and Android apps, and the web | From a trip tracked in the Polarsteps app |
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.
Each maker's nearest book to an A5 hardcover, at its fewest pages, from its US website. TripMemo charges in pounds, so its price is shown in pounds.
List prices before shipping, tax and any promotion running on the day we checked: Mixbook and Shutterfly both run frequent sales, so compare on the day you order. Mixbook's 8.5 × 8.5 in layflat is $74.99 for 20 pages; a TripMemo square layflat is £41.99.
If you have designed a Mixbook book, here is how making one in TripMemo differs, and what stays the same.
Instead of a theme to fill, pick the cover drawn for where you went (524 of them) or put your own photo on the front. Your title and year go on the cover and the spine.
Add your photos and the studio lays them out for you, one to four to a page. You can still change any layout, caption or photo, page by page.
Our square is 8.3 × 8.3 in, close to Mixbook's 8.5 × 8.5; our A4 portrait is 8.3 × 11.7 in, close to its 8.5 × 11; and our A4 landscape is 11.7 × 8.3 in, close to its 11 × 8.5.
For a book of more than 298 pages (Mixbook goes to 399) or a 12 × 12 in book, Mixbook is the better fit. For most trips, 298 pages is plenty.
A hardcover is £11.50 to send to Canada (8 to 15 working days) and £7.50 to Australia (5 to 10). Prices are in pounds; your card converts them at checkout.
See every page as it will print and download a PDF proof before you order, so the book you open is the book you made.
Pick your cover and the pages lay themselves out.
Mixbook's travel themes include about a dozen named for places, such as Italy, Greece and Japan. TripMemo has 524 covers, each drawn for one country, city or US state.
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 coverLike Mixbook, the TripMemo studio works in any browser, but it lays the pages out for you. Or let the TripMemo iPhone app build the whole book from the trip you kept.
On the web
In the iPhone app
Hardcover for the shelf, softcover for a weekend away, layflat for panoramas, in portrait, landscape or square. 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.
A fair look at Mixbook, and at the other makers people weigh it against.
Mixbook is a designer’s tool: a big library of themes, papers from Everyday semi-gloss to Premium lustre, and books from 6 × 6 to 14 × 11 in. Hardcovers and softcovers go up to 399 pages, more than any book we make, and layflat books to under 100.
Its glossy 8 × 6 in hardcover is $29.99 for 20 pages in its US store, C$40.99 in Canada and A$39.99 in Australia; it has a UK store too.
For a trip, the gaps are the cover (a theme, about a dozen of them named for a place) and the work: you design page by page from the photos you upload, with nothing built from your trip and no map of your route.
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.
Shutterfly prints in the US and offers a designer service that lays a book out for you within a day, plus flush mount albums. Its books go up to 111 pages, and its 8 × 8 in glossy hardcover lists at $39.98 for 20. See our Shutterfly comparison.
Choose Shutterfly if you're in the US and would like its designers to lay the book out for you, or you want a flush mount album.
Journi is a travel journal app that prints: its AI drafts a book from your photos with maps and dates, on iPhone, Android or the web, up to 349 pages, from From $19.99. Its covers are themes and passport stamps rather than artwork for your destination.
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 prints a trip you tracked in its app as a Travel Book, in one landscape size (29.7 × 21 cm), up to 400 pages. Without a tracked trip, there is no book. 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.
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.DhennyDTripMemo, in our view. It has 524 covers drawn for countries, cities and US states, lays your pages out for you on the web, and the TripMemo iPhone app can build the book from your trip with a map of your route. Shutterfly offers a designer service, Journi drafts books with AI and Polarsteps prints trips tracked in its app.
Mixbook hardcovers and softcovers go up to 399 pages, and its layflat books to under 100. TripMemo hardcovers go to 298, softcovers to 298 and layflat books to 120, so for a book of more than 298 pages, Mixbook is the one to choose.
Mixbook's glossy hardcover is $29.99 for 20 pages in its US store, before shipping and promotions. A TripMemo A5 hardcover (14.8 × 21 cm, 24 pages) is £28.49, charged in pounds. In Mixbook's Canadian store the same book is C$40.99, and in its Australian store A$39.99. Mixbook runs frequent sales, so compare on the day you order.
Mixbook lets you choose: Everyday semi-gloss, Signature matte or Premium lustre, at different prices. TripMemo hardcovers are printed on 200gsm gloss photo paper as standard, softcovers on 150gsm gloss and layflat books on 190gsm lustre.
Yes: its travel themes include about a dozen named for a place, such as Italy, Greece, Japan and Hawaii. TripMemo has 524 covers, each drawn for one country, city or US state.
Yes, every book is printed to order and sent tracked. A hardcover's delivery is £5.50 to the United States, arriving in about 7 to 11 working days; £11.50 to Canada, about 8 to 15; and £7.50 to Australia, about 5 to 10. Your price and date are shown at checkout, before you pay.
Pounds sterling. Your card, Apple Pay or Google Pay converts the price at checkout, at your bank's rate, and the total in pounds is shown 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.
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.
