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Turn a folder of photos into a printable album

Point the tool at a folder on your computer. It reads the capture dates, throws out the duplicates, groups the rest into events, suggests the best shots, lays them onto album cards at real millimetre sizes, and hands you a print-ready PDF. Every step happens inside your browser tab — your photos are never uploaded anywhere.

Works best in Chrome or Edge. Nothing to install, no sign-up, and no photo ever leaves your machine.

Why "local-only" is the whole point

Most online photo tools work by uploading your library to somebody else's server. That is a real cost: family photos sitting in a third party's storage, bound by whatever their retention policy says this year, and a long wait while gigabytes crawl up a home connection.

This tool takes the opposite approach. It is a static web page with no backend at all. When you choose a folder, the browser hands the page read access to those files, and every piece of work — reading EXIF metadata, generating thumbnails, hashing, scoring sharpness, rendering the PDF — runs on your own processor inside Web Workers. There is no server to send anything to.

You can verify this yourself: open your browser's Network tab and use the tool. After the page itself loads, you will see no further requests. The privacy policy spells out exactly what is and is not stored.

What it does

Finds real duplicates

Byte-identical copies are caught with a SHA-256 hash. Near-duplicates and burst sequences — the eleven near-identical frames of the same jump — are found with a perceptual hash, then collapsed to one suggested keeper you can override.

Sorts by when you took it

Photos are ordered by EXIF capture time, not file date, then split into events wherever there is a long enough gap. Each event becomes a titled album page like "March 14, 2026 — Morning".

Suggests the good ones

Every photo is scored on sharpness, exposure, resolution and how different it is from its neighbours, so a whole day can collapse to a handful of highlights. Every suggestion is editable.

Real print dimensions

Card and paper sizes are millimetres all the way through to the PDF, so a 76.2 mm card measures 76.2 mm on paper. A DPI report warns you before a photo is stretched past what its pixels can carry.

Cut it by hand or by machine

Export with trim marks and cut with a guillotine, or turn on print-and-cut to get registration marks plus a matching DXF or SVG cut file for a Silhouette CAMEO or Portrait.

Or fold it into a book

The booklet layout imposes your pages so that printing both sides, folding the stack in half and nesting the sheets produces a small book that reads in order. No cutting and no glue.

How it works, in five steps

  1. Choose a folder

    A normal folder picker. Nothing is copied and nothing is changed — the tool only reads.

  2. Let it process

    Metadata, thumbnails, hashes and quality scores are computed in parallel across your CPU cores, with live progress and a cancel button. A two-thousand photo folder takes well under a minute on a normal laptop.

  3. Review what it found

    Work through duplicates and bursts, adjust the highlight picks, and retitle event groups if you want something better than the date.

  4. Build and edit the album

    Pages are generated one per event with a collage layout chosen from the photo count. Swap layouts, reorder pages, zoom and pan inside a frame, rotate, and apply a colour look to one photo or the whole album.

  5. Print or export

    Set paper size, margins and card padding, check the imposition preview, then export a PDF rendered from your original full-resolution files. The guide walks through all of this in detail.

Who it is for

  • Scrapbookers and journallers who want small printed photos at an exact size, cut cleanly, without paying per print.
  • Craft-cutter owners with a Silhouette CAMEO or Portrait who want print-and-cut sheets generated for them rather than laid out by hand.
  • Anyone with a chaotic camera folder — thousands of shots, half of them duplicates, no idea which are worth keeping.
  • People who would rather not upload family photos to a service they have to trust.

Common questions

Is it really free?

Yes. There is no account, no trial and no paid tier. The site is supported by advertising.

Are my photos uploaded?

No. There is no server to upload them to. The page is static files; all processing happens in your browser. See the privacy policy.

Will it change or delete my files?

Not unless you explicitly ask. The tool reads only, unless you opt into "Organize files on disk", which shows you every rename and move before it happens and needs a typed confirmation. Nothing is ever erased — photos you delete are moved to a _deleted folder.

What file types work?

JPEG, PNG and WebP are laid out and printed. HEIC from an iPhone is decoded too. RAW files and videos are tracked and can be filed into their own folders, but are never decoded or printed. More in the FAQ.

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Start with your own photos

There is nothing to install and nothing to sign up for. Open the tool, point it at a folder, and see what it makes of it.