Every photo book tool I tried handed me a blank spread and 300 thumbnails and said "go on then." I got four pages in and closed it.
The photos went back to the folder. That was two years ago and they're still there.
So I built the opposite. PhotoBooks (macOS + iOS) takes an Apple Photos album or a folder and gives you a finished book first - curated, laid out, cover, spine text, back cover - before you've made a single decision. Then you argue with it. Make this one bigger, swap that, drag it there, write on the page, change the book size at the very end. The whole thing reflows around you.
Two rules I refused to break: it never crops a photo to fit a template, and nothing leaves your machine. Scoring runs on device, your book is a plain file in whatever folder you keep it in, no account.
PhotoBooks turns an Apple Photos album or a Mac folder into a finished, print-ready photo book. It curates the selection, gives standout shots bigger slots (faces, sharpness, saliency - on device) and builds balanced, zero-crop spreads with a real wraparound cover. Then you take over: drag, resize, crop, add text, swap photos, change size - the whole book reflows. Export Blurb-ready or bleed-ready PDFs. No account, no upload, your book is just a local file. Native macOS + iOS, 9 languages.
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