The Best Apps and Photo Services to Create Mother’s Day Books
by Miral Sattar • May 5, 2017 • Follow miralsattar
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Honor your mom, sister, grandma, (or any important woman in your life) with a book full of all the things you cherish about her.
We list out our favorite apps and photo printing services to create a Mother’s Day book for the moms in your lives.
Artkive books
If you have pages and pages of artwork from your little one and looking for a digital way to preserve your child’s artwork – the Artkive App is the way to go. Simply take pictures of your child’s art, select your photos, and let Artkive do the rest.
The books start at $25.
Chatbooks
Chatbooks is an awesome app that lets you create a photo book within minutes from your mobile device. They even have special edition Mother’s Day covers that start at just $14
Mosaic
If your best photos are on Instagram, then Mosaic might be a good option for you. The covers have beautiful cut-outs , like a mosaic, and make awesome gifts. They come in limited sizes and you can only add 20 pictures per book.
Best with an iOS of Android app.
Costco Photo Center
You can scan your pictures to a DVD or create a custom coffee table book easily and print them to your local Costco. A custom thirty-page book starts at $39.99. You can pick up from your local Costco within 5-7 days.
Go to Costco photo center.
Walgreens
Looking for an awesome 8.5×11 custom cover photo book? If you’re a procrastinator like us, Walgreens has same day pickup. USE CODE ALLMYPICS to get 40% off.
Books start at $29.99
Go to Walgreens to start building your book.
Blurb
If you’re looking for high-quality pictures, you can’t go wrong with Blurb. You can get an adorable baby book or a larger landscape book.
- Standard Portrait Photo Books start at US $21.99 for 20 pages
- Large Landscape Photo Books start at US $58.99 for 20 pages
Shutterfly
Shutterfly has been around for ages and still a great option for photo books for a reasonable price. We’d recommend using your desktop to create your albums. Short on time? We love Shutterfly, because you can also pay a small fee to have a Shutterfly designer build your whole book. Books start at $15.99, but you can use code BESTMOM to get 50% off.
Go to Shutterfly to start building your book.
Snapfish
Snapfish, like Shutterfly has been around forever. If you’re looking for pretty designs, Snapfish has “embellishments” which include borders that give your book a more scrap bookish feel. Prices start at $12.
About Miral Sattar
Lover of books. CEO & founder of Bibliocrunch. Love storytelling in all its forms. Formerly TIME. I'm a new media entrepreneur who has worked in the media industry for 11 years. My mission is simple – to innovate the publishing industry with technology. My company has been featured in BBC World News, Money Magazine, Bloomberg, Consumer Reports, Forbes, WSJ, MediaBistro, PBS, Columbia Journalism Review, The Next Web, Publishers Weekly, and a bunch of other places. Bibliocrunch was also selected as The Next Big Thing in media by the Paley Center. I also used to run a popular South Asian culture blog called Divanee. Before I ran my own company and became a mom, I used to be on the board for several literacy organizations, and wrote a LOT more. Hopefully, when things are calmer I can go back to that! :)