Compared Updated 2 November 2026
Popsa is quick; TripMemo is made for travel. If you want a cover drawn for where you went (524 of them), a portrait book or more than 150 pages, TripMemo is the alternative we would choose, and it costs less to start: £28.49 for an A5 hardcover against £38 for Popsa's smallest. Here is the full comparison.
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Our pick
Popsa turns a camera roll into a book in minutes, and does it well. TripMemo is built for one kind of book, the trip, and that shows in five places.
Popsa is the better pick in a couple of cases, and so are the other alternatives in theirs.
Every maker answers the same questions. TripMemo and Popsa come first; Photobox, Journi and Mixbook are the other books people compare.
| TripMemoOur pick | Popsa | Photobox | Journi | Mixbook | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Covers for your destination | 524 illustrated covers, each drawn for a country, city or US state | Your own photo, with foil lettering as an extra | A travel template and free themes | Travel themes and passport stamps | Travel themes, about a dozen named for a place, such as Italy, Greece and Japan |
| Shapes | Portrait, landscape and square | Landscape and square (no portrait) | Portrait, landscape and square | Portrait, landscape and square | Square, portrait and landscape |
| Pages | 18 to 298 (layflat up to 120) | 20 to 150 | 24 to 160 (softcover 24 to 60) | Up to 349 (layflat up to 103) | 20 to 399 (layflat under 100) |
| Paper | 200gsm gloss (softcover 150gsm gloss, layflat 190gsm lustre) | 200gsm matte, gloss as an upgrade | 200gsm, satin or gloss (layflat 270gsm) | 170gsm matte (layflat 380gsm satin) | Semi-gloss, matte or lustre |
| Layflat | Yes, 18 to 120 pages, landscape or 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 | Yes, up to 103 pages, from £49.99 | Yes, under 100 pages |
| Built from your trip | Yes, in the app: each day of the trip becomes pages, with your notes | 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 | No: you choose and add every photo |
| Map of your route | In the app: the route you recorded, on a satellite map | None listed | None listed | Automatic maps of your travels | None listed |
| Where you make it | On the web, or in the TripMemo iPhone app | iPhone and Android apps, and the web | Website, iPhone and Android apps, and a desktop app | iPhone and Android apps, and the web | Website and mobile app |
| Small hardcover | £28.49A5 portrait hardcover, 14.8 × 21 cm, 24 pages | £38Medium landscape hardcover, 20 × 15 cm, 20 pages | £25.99Medium portrait hardcover, 15 × 20 cm, 24 pages | From £19.99Its lowest-priced photo book (size not stated) | £24.99Glossy hardcover, 8.5 × 8.5 in (21.6 cm square), 20 pages |
| Cheapest delivery | £6.50 (layflat £19) | From £5.99 | From £4.99 | 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, as its own website priced it.
List prices before delivery and before any promotion running on the day we checked. With the layflat upgrade, Popsa's medium book is £54 for 20 pages; a TripMemo square layflat is £41.99 for 18.
Popsa users will find TripMemo just as quick. Here is what carries over, and what you gain.
Most photos taken on a phone are portrait. An A5 (14.8 × 21 cm) or A4 (21 × 29.7 cm) portrait book lets them fill the page, which Popsa's landscape and square books can't.
Popsa's medium book (20 × 15 cm) is close to our A5 landscape (21 × 14.8 cm), its large (27 × 21 cm) to our A4 landscape (29.7 × 21 cm), and its 20 cm square to our 21 cm square.
Choose one of 524 covers drawn for where you went, or your own photo, as with Popsa. Your title and year go on the front and the spine.
Add your photos and the studio lays them out for you, one to four to a page. Change a layout, add a caption or move a photo on any page.
The TripMemo studio runs in your phone's browser, from choosing a cover to checkout, so you don't need an app to make the book.
TripMemo hardcovers are printed on 200gsm gloss photo paper at no extra cost; at Popsa, gloss is an upgrade on matte.
Make the same book, in the shape your photos were taken.
Popsa's covers are your own photo and title, with foil as an extra. Ours can be that too, or one of 524 illustrated covers for countries, cities and US states.
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 Popsa, TripMemo lays out your photos for you. Do it in any browser, on a computer or an Android phone, or let the TripMemo iPhone app build the whole book from your trip.
On the web
In the iPhone app
Hardcover, softcover and layflat, 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 Popsa, and at the other makers people weigh it against.
Popsa is built for speed: pick your photos and its app lays them out, writes captions and picks colours automatically, then you change what you like. It works on iPhone, Android and the web, and its books are 200gsm matte, with gloss, foil lettering, layflat and a gift box as extras.
Its hardcovers come in three landscape sizes (20 × 15, 27 × 21 and 35 × 26 cm) and three squares (15, 20 and 30 cm), from £38 for the medium 20 × 15 cm book of 20 pages, up to 150 pages. Layflat is an upgrade on the landscape books, from £16 to £26, up to 80 pages.
For a trip, the gaps are the cover (your photo rather than your destination), the shape (no portrait books for phone photos), the page limit and the paper, matte unless you pay for gloss. Delivery starts at £5.99, against our £6.50.
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 widest range of sizes, from 10 × 10 cm to 39 × 29 cm, and the lowest price for a small hardcover: £25.99 for a 15 × 20 cm book of 24 pages. Its books stop at 160 pages. 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 is a travel journal app that prints: its AI drafts a book with maps and dates, on iPhone, Android or the web, up to 349 pages. Its covers are themes and passport stamps, 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).
Mixbook is for people who like to design every page, with a big library of themes and books of up to 399 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.
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, prints portrait books as well as landscape and square, holds up to 298 pages against Popsa's 150, and starts lower: £28.49 for an A5 hardcover against £38. Photobox has more sizes, Journi drafts books with AI on Android too, and Mixbook holds the most pages.
To start, yes. A TripMemo A5 hardcover (14.8 × 21 cm, 24 pages) is £28.49, and Popsa's smallest hardcover (20 × 15 cm, 20 pages) is £38, both before delivery. TripMemo includes gloss pages, which are an upgrade at Popsa. Popsa runs promotions too, so compare on the day you order.
No. Popsa's hardcovers are landscape (20 × 15, 27 × 21 and 35 × 26 cm) or square (15, 20 and 30 cm). TripMemo prints A5 and A4 portrait books, which suit photos taken on a phone, as well as landscape and square.
Popsa books start at 20 pages and take up to 130 more, so 150 in all; a layflat Popsa book goes to 80. TripMemo hardcovers go to 298 pages, softcovers to 298 and layflat books to 120.
Yes, as an upgrade on its landscape hardcovers: £16 on the medium book, £20 on the large and £26 on the extra large, up to 80 pages. TripMemo's layflat comes in landscape or square, 18 to 120 pages, from £41.99.
Yes, on the web: the TripMemo studio works in your phone's browser, from choosing a cover to checkout. The TripMemo app, which builds a book from your trip, is on iPhone.
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.
