Compared Updated 2 November 2026
If your photo book is of a trip, TripMemo is the alternative to Photobox we would choose: a cover drawn for where you went (524 of them), up to 298 pages against Photobox's 160, and books the iPhone app builds from your trip. Photobox still costs less for a small book and makes more sizes; here is the full comparison.
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Our pick
Photobox makes books for everything, from weddings to calendars. TripMemo makes one thing: the book of a trip. That focus shows in five places.
Photobox is a good printer, and for some books it is the better choice. So are the other alternatives, in their own cases.
The same questions put to every maker. TripMemo and Photobox come first; Popsa, Mixbook and Journi are the other alternatives people weigh up.
| TripMemoOur pick | Photobox | Popsa | Mixbook | Journi | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Covers for your destination | 524 illustrated covers, each drawn for a country, city or US state | 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 | Travel themes and passport stamps |
| 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 it lays out the photos you choose automatically | No: you choose and add every photo | Yes: its AI drafts the book from your photos, with maps and dates |
| Map of your route | In the app: the route you recorded, on a satellite map | None listed | None listed | None listed | Automatic maps of your travels |
| Pages | 18 to 298 (layflat up to 120) | 24 to 160 (softcover 24 to 60) | 20 to 150 | 20 to 399 (layflat under 100) | Up to 349 (layflat up to 103) |
| Paper | 200gsm gloss (softcover 150gsm gloss, layflat 190gsm lustre) | 200gsm, satin or gloss (layflat 270gsm) | 200gsm matte, gloss as an upgrade | Semi-gloss, matte or lustre | 170gsm matte (layflat 380gsm satin) |
| Layflat | Yes, 18 to 120 pages, landscape or square | 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 | Yes, up to 103 pages, from £49.99 |
| Shapes | Portrait, landscape and square | Portrait, landscape and square | Landscape and square (no portrait) | Square, portrait and landscape | Portrait, landscape and square |
| Bindings | Hardcover, softcover and layflat | Hardcover, softcover, layflat and window covers | Hardcover and softcover, with a layflat upgrade | Softcover, hardcover, layflat and album | Softcover, hardcover and layflat |
| 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 | Website and mobile app | iPhone and Android apps, and the web |
| Cheapest delivery | £6.50 (layflat £19) | From £4.99 | 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 £28.49.
Each maker's nearest book to an A5 hardcover, at its fewest pages. Photobox is cheaper to start; look at what each price buys before you choose.
List prices before delivery and before any promotion running on the day we checked: Photobox runs frequent sales, so its price on the day may be lower. Photobox books stop at 160 pages; TripMemo books go to 298.
If you have made a Photobox book before, most of TripMemo will feel familiar. Here is what carries over, and what changes.
Instead of choosing a theme, choose the cover drawn for where you went: 524 of them, for countries, cities and US states. Your title and year go on the front and the spine.
Photobox's medium portrait (15 × 20 cm) is close to our A5 (14.8 × 21 cm), its large portrait (21 × 28 cm) to our A4 (21 × 29.7 cm), and its large square is the same 21 × 21 cm as ours.
Add your photos and the studio places them for you, one to four to a page. Swap a layout, move a photo or add a caption on any page.
Up to 298 pages in a hardcover and 298 in a softcover, where Photobox stops at 160 and 60. Long trips fit in one book.
See every page as it will print and download a PDF proof. Pay by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay; UK delivery is £6.50, and books usually arrive in 5 to 8 working days.
Upload from your phone or computer. Or let the TripMemo iPhone app find the trips already in your camera roll and turn each one into a TripBook, ready to print.
Your first TripMemo book takes minutes.
Photobox's travel book starts from a theme. Ours starts from where you went: 524 illustrated covers for countries, cities and US states, each with your title and year.
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 Photobox, the TripMemo studio works in any browser, on a computer or a phone. Unlike it, the TripMemo iPhone app can build the whole book from the trip you kept.
On the web
In the iPhone app
Hardcover, softcover and layflat, each 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 Photobox, and at the other makers people compare it with.
Photobox is a big UK photo printer with a wide range: books from 10 × 10 cm up to 39 × 29 cm, softcovers, hardcovers, window covers and layflat. Its medium portrait hardcover (15 × 20 cm) is £25.99 for 24 pages, against £28.49 for a TripMemo A5 hardcover (14.8 × 21 cm, 24 pages), and its delivery starts at £4.99 against our £6.50.
Its layflat books are strong too: 270gsm pages on large and XL books, up to 160 pages, from £47.79 for a 21 × 21 cm square. You can make a Photobox book on the web, in its iPhone and Android apps or in a desktop app.
For a trip, the gaps are the cover (a travel theme, not your destination), the page limit (160, or 60 for a softcover) and the work: you choose and place every photo yourself, with no map of your route.
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.
The fastest of the alternatives: Popsa’s app lays out the photos you pick in a few minutes. Its books are landscape or square, from £38 for a 20 × 15 cm hardcover of 20 pages, up to 150 pages. See our 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 suits people who like to design every page, with a large library of themes and books of up to 399 pages. In its UK store a glossy 8.5 × 8.5 in hardcover is £24.99 for 20 pages. See our 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.
Journi is a travel journal app that prints, like TripMemo: its AI drafts a book with maps and dates, on iPhone, Android or the web, up to 349 pages. Its covers are themes rather than artwork for a place, and its standard pages are 170gsm matte.
Choose Journi if you want an AI-drafted book with maps on an Android phone, or more than 298 pages (it goes to 349).
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, holds up to 298 pages against Photobox's 160, and the TripMemo iPhone app can build the book from your trip with a map of your route. Popsa is the quickest alternative, Mixbook holds the most pages, and Journi drafts books with AI.
Not for a small book. Photobox's medium portrait hardcover (15 × 20 cm, 24 pages) is £25.99 before delivery, and a TripMemo A5 hardcover (14.8 × 21 cm, 24 pages) is £28.49. TripMemo includes 200gsm gloss pages, for which Photobox charges extra, and holds up to 298 pages. Photobox also runs frequent sales, so compare on the day you order.
Photobox hardcovers have 24 to 160 pages, its softcovers 24 to 60 and its window-cover books up to 120. TripMemo hardcovers have 24 to 298 pages, softcovers 20 to 298 and layflat books 18 to 120.
Photobox's standard pages are 200gsm with a satin finish, gloss costs from 8p a page, and its layflat pages are 270gsm. TripMemo hardcovers are 200gsm gloss as standard, softcovers 150gsm gloss and layflat books 190gsm lustre.
Yes: a travel template and free themes, and occasion categories for holidays and city breaks. TripMemo's travel covers are drawn for the place itself: 524 of them, for countries, cities and US states, from Amalfi's lemons to a New York taxi.
Yes. A book made in the TripMemo iPhone app can include the route you recorded, on a satellite map. A book made on the TripMemo website opens with a map page of the country or state you visited, with your places and dates.
Photobox's standard UK delivery starts at £4.99, and it usually takes 5 to 8 working days. TripMemo's UK delivery is £6.50 for a hardcover or softcover and £19 for a layflat, and every book is printed to order and sent tracked.
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.
