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Recognising your child's face needs your permission, in plain language, before anything runs.
One child · One year · One book
1000s of photos.
One book about your kid.
Point it at a year’s worth of photos — from Google Photos, a Takeout zip, or your computer. It finds your kids, selects both the highlights and the everyday moments that tell the story of the year, and organizes them into a beautiful, ready-to-print book.
Three steps · A book per child · Print it if you want to
2026
September
41 photos
1000s in
1 book out
0 photos to sort
0 layouts to choose
1 book per child
12 chapters, in order
up to 120 pages
Why it's different
Everyone else makes a book of your photos. We make a book about your child.
Only here
It knows which one is yours
Face matching pulls out the shots your kid is actually in — so the book is about one child, not the whole household.
Your mess is the input
A year's worth, however it's stored. Duplicates, screenshots, nothing in folders. No tagging, no tidying first.
A year you can read
January to December, each month opening on its own page. A story in order, not a grid of greatest hits.
You get the last word
See every page before anything is printed. Change what you want, then send it to print — or keep it as a digital keepsake and come back to it.
How it works
From a year of photos to a book worth keeping.
Point it at wherever the year already lives. Everything after that happens without you — and you still see every page before anything prints.
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One year of photosTen thousand of them.
Ten thousand of them.
Nobody has the time.
Where the work is
Finding them is the easy part. Choosing the 450 that tell the year isn't.
Your phone already knows their face. What it won't do is sit down with 2,500 photos and decide which ones add up to a year worth keeping — covering every month, one frame per moment, the ordinary weeks as well as the big days.
One year, unsortedA whole year of it, however messy. Screenshots and duplicates included.
Found by faceScanned twice, at two resolutions, so they're found even in the back of a wide shot — and their sibling's photos stay in their sibling's book.
Bursts collapsedForty frames of the same birthday candle become one moment. Table stakes — but you still don't have to do it.
The part nobody else doesThe ones that tell the yearNot simply the sharpest. Chosen for coverage across all twelve months, one frame per moment, and the expression that makes a photo worth printing.
The book fits the year
Bigger years get bigger books — the length follows how much actually happened, not a fixed page count.
Undated photos still land right
Old scans lose their date. They're placed by matching them to the photos around them.
Sideways photos get straightened
Rotation is detected and corrected before anything is laid out.
Crops never cut anyone in half
Head to feet, every time — no chopped-off legs to make a photo fit its box.
Every month gets a hero
One to three photos are pulled out and printed large to open each chapter.
Scene shots don't pad it out
Photos your kid isn't in don't go in their book. It's theirs, not the household's.
The second-child problem
One of them has albums. The other has a folder.
Not love — time. Because the books are built per child, the second one gets exactly the year the first one got.
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Now they both get one
What's inside
Twelve months. Twelve chapters.
Each month opens on its own page with a few words about it, then the photographs of that month — laid out to fit what actually happened, not poured into a template.
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The cover
One child, one year
Their name, the year, and the photograph the book decided was the one.
March
The month everything moved outside.
Bikes on the driveway, muddy shoes by the door, and the first evening warm enough to eat dinner in the garden.
The month, in a few words
Two photographs that stood out, and a short written summary of what that month was actually like.
Eleven to a page, never the same twice
Rows change count and width to suit the photographs in them. No two pages in the book repeat.
12″ square
Layflat, hard or soft cover
190gsm
Up to 120 pages
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Why not just use a photo book app?
You can. They'll give you a book of your household's year. None of them will give each child their own.
| LifeChapters | Auto photo-book apps | Design-it-yourself sites | |
|---|---|---|---|
| A separate book for each child | ✓ | – One book from photos | Build it twice, by hand |
| Finds your child by face | ✓ | – | – |
| Bursts collapsed to one frame | ✓ | ✓ | – By hand, forty at a time |
| Balanced across all twelve months | ✓ | – Weighted to big events | – You decide |
| Chosen for expression, not just sharpness | ✓ | – | – |
| Works from an unsorted library | ✓ | ✓ | – You choose every photo |
| Structure of the book | Month by month, in order | Grouped by event or trip | Whatever you lay out |
| Layout work for you | None | None | All of it |
| Monthly commitment | None — order when you want | Usually a subscription | None |
| Layflat 190gsm pages | ✓ | Varies by tier | Varies by tier |
Auto photo-book apps = LifeCache, Chatbooks, Journi and similar. Design-it-yourself = Mixbook, Shutterfly, Artifact Uprising and similar. Based on their published features, July 2026.
Why it's called LifeChapters
Every year of childhood is a chapter.
One book a year — and any year, not just this one. Start with last year, go back and fill in 2019, or begin the year they were born. Documenting childhood, one chapter at a time, until the shelf is the whole story.
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Pricing
Pay for a book, not a membership.
One digital book per child. Print any of them, any time — or don't.
The book
$3999
per child, per year
- Their whole year, in order
- A private link that opens anywhere — send it to grandparents
- Swap any photo, any time
- Yours to keep and come back to
Each extra child
+$2999
added to the same order
- A separate book, built around them
- The same year, their version of it
- One click — not a second project
Print it optional
from $39
added on when you're ready
- 12″ square layflat, 190gsm, hard or soft cover
- Price follows the size and length you choose
- See every page before it prints
- Order it now, next month, or never
Your photographs
These are pictures of your kids.
Yours, not ours
Your photos are used for one thing — making the book — and nothing else.
Delete anytime
Your photos and the face data behind them, erased on request. One button.
Never sold or shared
Stored encrypted. Not sold, not shared, not handed to anyone.
Questions
The honest answers.
Do I have to organise anything first?
No — and if you could, you probably would have by now. Send it all: duplicates, screenshots, forty shots of the same birthday candle. That's the normal input, not the hard one.
Both my kids are in most of the photos.
Then most photos appear in both books, which is right — they were both there. Each book is built around one child, so each one leads with the kid it belongs to.
My older photos have no dates on them.
Scans and forwarded photos often lose the date. They're placed as accurately as possible from what's around them, and you can move anything before it prints.
Can family overseas see it?
Yes. The digital book is a private link that opens anywhere in the world, with no account to create. Printing and shipping are US-only for now.
How much does printing cost?
It depends on the size and the number of pages, which depends on how much happened that year — a busy year makes a longer book. You'll see the exact price before you order, and the digital book is yours whether you print it or not.
What if I only have a few hundred photos?
Then you get a shorter book, not a padded one. The length follows the year rather than a fixed page count, so a quiet year reads like a quiet year instead of being filled out with photos that didn't deserve to be there.
How long does it take?
Your part is three steps and it's over in one sitting. After that the work happens without you — a tidy year is quick, a very large one takes a few hours. You don't sit and watch either way: start it, close the laptop, and you'll hear from us when the book is ready to look at.
What if I don't like what it picked?
Swap it. You see every page before anything is printed, and you can pull a photo out or put a different one in.
Any year, any child
That year is already in your photos.
Three steps to start it. Print it whenever you're ready.
Start your book