Compared Updated 7 November 2026
If you tracked every step in Polarsteps, its Travel Book makes itself, route and all, and it is very good at that. TripMemo is the alternative for a trip Polarsteps never saw, or when you want a cover drawn for where you went (707 of them), a portrait or square book, and a price you can see before you start: £28.49 for an A5 hardcover.
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Our pick
The Polarsteps Travel Book is generated from your tracked trip with almost no work. TripMemo asks a few more minutes of you, and gives you more choice in return.
For a trip you tracked from start to finish in Polarsteps, its book is hard to beat on effort. These are the cases where it, or another maker, is the better pick.
Every maker answers the same questions. TripMemo and Polarsteps come first; Journi, Popsa and Photobox are the other books people weigh against them.
| TripMemoOur pick | Polarsteps | Journi | Popsa | Photobox | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built from your trip | Yes, in the app: each day of the trip becomes pages, with your notes | Yes: generated automatically from the trip you tracked in its app | 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 |
| Map of your route | In the app: the route you recorded, on a satellite map | Your tracked route, with weather, altitude and distances for each step | Automatic maps of your travels | None listed | None listed |
| Covers for your destination | 707 illustrated covers, each drawn for a country, city or US state | A photo from your trip, with 12 theme colours | Travel themes, maps and passport stamps | Your own photo, with foil lettering as an extra | A travel template and free themes |
| Shapes | Portrait, landscape and square | Landscape only, one size (29.7 × 21 cm) | Landscape, square and portrait (21 × 30 cm) | Landscape and square (no portrait) | Portrait, landscape and square |
| Pages | 18 to 298 (layflat up to 120) | Up to 400 (layflat up to 120) | 25 to 349 (layflat up to 103) | 20 to 150 | 24 to 160 (softcover 24 to 60) |
| Paper | 200gsm gloss (softcover 150gsm gloss, layflat 190gsm lustre) | Semi-matte, 200gsm (150gsm in books of 299 to 400 pages) | 170gsm matte, or 200gsm gloss on hardcovers (layflat 380gsm satin) | 200gsm matte, gloss as an upgrade | 200gsm, satin or gloss (layflat 270gsm) |
| Layflat | Yes, 18 to 120 pages, landscape or square | Yes, up to 120 pages, on thicker paper | Yes, up to 103 pages, in 21 cm square, 30 × 21 cm and 30 cm square | An upgrade on landscape hardcovers, up to 80 pages | Large and XL hardcovers (24 to 160 pages, 270gsm), and a 14 cm square softcover |
| Layflat paper | 190gsm lustre | Thicker semi-matte paper (its help centre gives two different weights) | 380gsm satin | 200gsm matte, gloss as an upgrade | 270gsm, with a soft sheen |
| Where you make it | On the web, or in the TripMemo iPhone app | Generated from a trip in the Polarsteps app (or on its website, on a computer) | iPhone and Android apps, and the web | iPhone and Android apps, and the web | Website, iPhone and Android apps, and a desktop app |
| Small hardcover | £28.49A5 portrait hardcover, 14.8 × 21 cm, 24 pages | Priced at checkout | £27.99Small landscape hardcover, 21 × 15 cm, 25 pages | £38Medium landscape hardcover, 20 × 15 cm, 20 pages | £25.99Medium portrait hardcover, 15 × 20 cm, 24 pages |
| Cheapest delivery | £6.50 (layflat £19) | Free worldwide, in the book's price | From £2.49 (free over £30) | From £5.99 | From £4.99 |
Every figure for another maker is from its own website, checked on 7 November 2026: see how we compared. TripMemo makes one of the books on this page.
Any trip, from the photos you already have. £28.49 for an A5 hardcover.
Each maker's nearest book to an A5 hardcover, at its fewest pages, as its own website priced it. Polarsteps publishes no price list, so its book is priced at checkout.
List prices before any promotion running on the day we checked. Polarsteps prices its books by binding, number of copies and page range (up to 24, 25 to 50, 51 to 100, 101 to 200, 201 to 300 and 301 to 400 pages), with local taxes and delivery included; a yearly Polarsteps Plus subscription takes 20% off, and two or three copies of the same book 10% or 15%. A TripMemo square layflat is £41.99 for 18 pages.
What Polarsteps' own help centre says about its book, and what each point means for the book you want.
Polarsteps generates the Travel Book from a trip in its app with at least five photos and published steps. If you didn't track the trip, or only tracked part of it, start a TripMemo book on the web from your photos instead.
Polarsteps can’t combine trips in one Travel Book at the moment. A TripMemo book takes photos from as many trips as you like, with your own title on the cover and spine: see the year in review photo book.
Every Travel Book is 29.7 × 21 cm landscape. Most phone photos are portrait, so an A5 (14.8 × 21 cm) or A4 (21 × 29.7 cm) portrait TripMemo book lets them fill the page; our A4 landscape is the same size as Polarsteps'.
Polarsteps goes to 400 pages, more than our 298, though its paper drops from 200gsm to 150gsm above 298 pages. For a longer trip, make two TripMemo books, each on 200gsm gloss.
Polarsteps shows the price at checkout, after the book is generated. TripMemo's prices are on every page: £28.49 for an A5 hardcover, £41.99 for a square layflat, with delivery shown before you pay.
Nothing stops you using both. Keep tracking with Polarsteps, then make a TripMemo book from the same photos with a cover drawn for the place. For the apps themselves, see our Polarsteps app comparison.
Start with the cover, then add the photos from your trip.
A Polarsteps Travel Book takes your trip's cover photo and title. Ours can do that too, or wear one of 707 illustrated covers for countries, cities and US states.
USAMonument Valley road
ItalyScooter
SpainOranges
CanadaRed maple leaf
ThailandLongtail boat
FranceCroissant & wine
TexasRed boots
GreeceEvil eye
PortugalAzulejo sardine
CaliforniaBeach palms
JapanTorii at sunset
New YorkStatue of Liberty707 covers in all. Browse them by place: United States, Italy, Spain, Canada, Thailand, France, Texas, Greece, Portugal, California, Japan, New York, England, Morocco, Paris, Tennessee and every design.
Four photo cover styles take your best shot of the trip: Image runs it edge to edge, Editorial sets it beside your title, and Arch and Good days frame it in their own way. Every style prints your title on the spine.
Start with a photo coverPolarsteps builds the book from your tracked steps. TripMemo works either way: in any browser from the photos you have, or in the TripMemo iPhone app from the trip you kept, route included.
On the web
In the iPhone app
Hardcover, softcover and layflat, in portrait, landscape or square. Polarsteps prints a landscape hardcover and a landscape layflat.
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 the Polarsteps Travel Book, and at the other makers people compare it with.
Its great strength is that it makes itself. Choose a trip you tracked in Polarsteps and its book is ready in minutes: your photos and step text laid out in order, your route plotted on a map, and the weather, altitude and distances of each step added for you. You can then move or remove photos, change the cover photo and title, pick one of 12 colours and switch whole sections off.
There are two styles, both 29.7 × 21 cm landscape hardcovers with a semi-matte finish. Premium goes to 400 pages, on 200gsm paper up to 298 pages and 150gsm above that. Lay-Flat Premium opens flat on thicker paper, up to 120 pages. Polarsteps prints locally where it can, and delivery is included in the price: it says to allow 3 to 5 business days to make the book, then 3 to 5 to ship it to the UK, the EU, the US, Canada or Australia, and up to 10 elsewhere.
The limits follow from that strength. There is no book without a Polarsteps trip, one trip per book, one landscape size, and no published price until checkout. For the Polarsteps app against the TripMemo app (journals, tracking and sharing), see our Polarsteps app comparison.
Choose Polarsteps if you tracked the whole trip in Polarsteps and want one landscape book of it, up to 400 pages.
Journi drafts a book with AI from the photos you choose, adding maps and dates, on iPhone, Android or the web, without tracking the trip first. Its books go to 349 pages, from £27.99 for a 21 × 15 cm hardcover of 25. See our Journi comparison.
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 lays out the photos you pick in a few minutes, in landscape and square books of up to 150 pages, from £38. 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.
Photobox has the most sizes and the lowest price for a small hardcover, £25.99 for 24 pages, but you choose and add every photo yourself. 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.
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.
Literally my favorite thing I've bought in a while. Turned out so clean and looks amazing on my shelf.
Stacked my Mexico, Ibiza, Paris, and Amalfi books on my shelf and everyone who comes over comments on them! The hardcovers feel heavy and photo quality is really nice.
I’m moving abroad for uni next month and wanted something physical to bring with me. Everything about this book exceeded my expectations! The print quality, the smooth matte cover, and the weight of it feel so premium. It captures my entire life in London so beautifully. I know I’m going to be flipping through this whenever I get homesick!…
I spent 6 months living in Bali and wanted something really special to remember it by. And this did not disappoint!! The colours pop so well, the paper feels amazing and It’s definitely going to be the centrepiece of my coffee table at home!…
Surprised my girlfriend with these for our anniversary. She loves the aesthetic and spent hours looking through them and was over the moon. Was really easy to print and came within a week.…
4.96 out of 5Based on 25 reviews
So happy looking back through my Paris book with my morning coffee! It looks like a high-end designer book.
Literally so obsessed with how this turned out. The pictures printed out so sharp and the cover aesthetic is 10/10!
Made a custom Japan photo book for my mum's birthday and she literally teared up! Such a special gift idea.
I was honestly skeptical because social media ads get me all the time, but this exceeded every expectation. The pages don't smudge and feel like an actual art gallery print.
Surprised my best friend with a book from our girls' trip to Italy and we both ended up crying on her couch flipping through it. Way better than leaving our memories in a group chat folder!
Super fast shipping, adorable cover design, and the app layout process was foolproof. Ordering three more right now for my backlog of summer photos!
I had over 3,000 photos just wasting away on my phone storage. Seeing them bound in this gorgeous matte hardcover feels so gratifying. Don't think about it, just get one!
The binding is super solid, the page weight feels expensive, and the colors printed out exact to my phone screen. So happy with how this turned out!
I stopped buying random trinkets and keychains on vacations years ago. Creating one of these books after every big trip is my new official tradition.
The pastel cover color matches my living room aesthetic perfectly. It’s so well made and feels like a luxury coffee table book you’d buy at a museum store.
Finally got our trips turned into books so we can relive them all the time! The quality is amazing and it feels so good to have actual physical memories on our table.
Hands-down the best photo books on the market 💗 Was blown away by how easy it was to customize and create on my phone!
Way cheaper and more affordable than other photo book companies, but the paper isn't flimsy at all. It's super thick, good photo paper. Highly recommend!
My new goal is literally just to travel the world so I can collect more of these books for my shelf!
Turned our favorite vacation memories into something we can actually hold. So beautiful and well made.
IDC how many photos you have sitting on your phone, putting them into these coffee table books is so much better.
Finally printed most of our international adventures! They look so cute stacked together on our living room console.
Literally cannot stop staring at these on my entryway table. The hardcover is super thick, the colors are insanely vibrant, and creating it took me maybe ten minutes while watching TV.
If you ever need a gift for your girlfriend that makes you look like a total romantic genius, buy her one of these for your last trip together. Worked like a charm.
Everyone who comes over immediately picks it up and starts looking through it. It gives major luxury boutique hotel book vibes, but filled with our silly memories inside.
TripMemo travel photo books are printed to order as a hardcover, softcover or layflat book: hardcover from £28.49, softcover from £26.49 and layflat from £41.99.
UK orders usually arrive in 5 to 8 working days, and books ship worldwide.
Printed book reviews average 4.96 out of 5 from 25 reviews.
Prices are in pounds sterling for one book with the fewest pages; delivery is priced for your address before you pay. The full policy is on shipping and returns.
Polarsteps doesn't publish a price list. Its help centre says the price depends on the binding, the page range and the number of copies, and is shown at checkout, in your currency, with local taxes and worldwide delivery included. A yearly Polarsteps Plus subscription takes 20% off. A TripMemo A5 hardcover of 24 pages is £28.49, plus £6.50 delivery in the UK.
29.7 cm wide and 21 cm high (11.7 × 8.3 in), landscape, the size of a sheet of A4 on its side. It is the only size. TripMemo prints that size too, as an A4 landscape, and also A5 landscape, A5 and A4 portrait, and a 21 cm square.
Up to 400 in the Premium style and 120 in Lay-Flat Premium. Premium pages are 200gsm up to 298 pages and 150gsm from 299 to 400. TripMemo hardcovers and softcovers go to 298 pages and layflat books to 120.
Semi-matte paper inside a semi-matte hardcover. Premium books use 200gsm paper (150gsm above 298 pages), and Lay-Flat Premium a thicker paper. TripMemo hardcovers are printed on 200gsm gloss photo paper and layflat books on 190gsm lustre.
Polarsteps says about 3 to 5 business days to make the book, then about 3 to 5 to ship it to the UK, the EU, the US, Canada or Australia, and up to 10 to the rest of the world, a little longer in its busy seasons. TripMemo books usually reach UK addresses in 5 to 8 working days.
No. The Travel Book is generated from a Polarsteps trip with at least five photos and published steps, and one book holds one trip. TripMemo makes a book on the web from any photos, tracked or not.
Both are travel apps that print books, but this page is about the printed book. For the TripMemo app against the Polarsteps app (journals, route tracking, sharing), see our Polarsteps app comparison at tripmemo.app/polarsteps-alternative.
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 book right here, or in the TripMemo app for iPhone. The app also sorts your photos by day and place, and keeps every trip together.
