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Pressbook

Your albumstarts on the phone.

Pressbook turns the photos you pick into a magazine-quality album, on the device the photos live on. It reads the roll like a story: chapters by time and place, the best of every burst, faces never cropped. Then it exports a PDF a photo lab will print. No upload, no account.

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point your iPhone camera herethe album starts on the phone

layouts 259export 600 dpi pdfsizes square · landscape · portraitfilters 87photos uploaded 0

how it works / three steps, no account between them

From camera roll to a finished book.

01

Pick generously

Select a big handful from your library. On-device curation proposes the keepers from your selection: eyes open, sharp, no near-duplicates. You approve, not spelunk.

02

Set the shape and fullness

Choose square, landscape, or portrait, then set how full the pages should feel with a live page count. The slider changes pages, never which photos are in the album.

03

Read it, then print it

Flip through the finished album with a real page curl, then export a 150, 300, or 600 DPI PDF, share pages as images, or pass on the editable project file.

the story engine / what the builder actually does

It reads the roll like a story.

Chapters follow time and place, worked out on your device from when and where each photo was taken. Near-identical shots collapse into a stack with the best frame leading and its siblings one tap away. The people in your life appear evenly across the pages.

A fullness slider sets how full each page feels, from airy to packed, with honest numbers while it counts. Every rebuild is a take you can flip back to, and set-aside photos wait in a drawer, grouped by reason. Nothing silently disappears.

what you get / the numbers, plainly

Built to hold up at print size.

export600 DPI PDFthree tiers: 150 for sharing, 300 for everyday prints, 600 for photo labs
photosup to 1,00020 per album on the free tier, 1,000 with Pro
sizes3 formatssquare, landscape, and portrait albums
templates259 sharedhand-designed layouts, dealt so pages never repeat one look
chapterstime + placeworked out on the device from when and where each photo was taken
uploaded0 photosanalysis, layout, and export all run on the device

the architecture / not a policy

Your photos are not marketing data.

The whole pipeline, curation, layout, and render, runs on Apple silicon in your hand. There is no Pressbook server for your album to pass through, which means nothing to breach, nothing to subpoena, nothing to quietly monetize. How the on-device pipeline works →

questions

Album questions, answered straight.

150 DPI is for screens and quick shares, 300 DPI prints well at home and at most print shops, and 600 DPI is what photo labs ask for. All three export as PDF in square, landscape, or portrait.

The free tier makes albums up to 20 photos. Pro raises the ceiling to 1,000 photos per album, and the fullness slider decides how they spread across pages.

No. Curation, layout, and PDF export all run on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. There is no account and no server; the app works in airplane mode.

One control from airy to packed that sets how full each page feels, with a live page count. It changes how pages are laid out, never which photos are in the album: every photo you chose stays.

Yes. Swap any photo for its same-moment siblings, shuffle a page layout, make a photo big, reorder pages, or open the full canvas editor. Every rebuild is kept as a take you can return to.