Curation with taste
Out of 2,000 photos, Driftwood keeps the 80 that carry the trip. It drops the duplicates, the blur, and the parking ticket you photographed at the airport. It keeps the one where everyone laughed at the wrong moment.
Hardcover travel books, curated by AI
Your trip deserves better than a camera roll.
Driftwood reads the two thousand photos from your last trip, keeps the eighty that tell the story, writes the captions, and prints the whole thing into a linen hardcover. You approve it. We do the rest.
Cover linen: Harbor
Joined by 48,000 travelers this year. Books from $39, at your door in seven days.
48,000+books shipped
4.9 / 5from 12,400 reviews
2.3Mphotos curated
~7 daysfrom tap to doormat
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Why Driftwood
Made for the trip you actually took, not the one you posted.
A camera roll is evidence. A book is a story. The difference is a hundred small decisions we make so you never have to sit down and make them.
Captions in your voice
It reads the where, the when, and any notes you jotted on the way, then writes short captions that sound like you on a good day. Tap any of them to rewrite it in yours.
Chapters, not a grid
Photos are grouped by day, place, and mood, so the morning in Lisbon gets its own spread. So does the afternoon it rained and you gave up and found the good bakery.
Paper you can feel
170gsm matte art paper, lay-flat binding, and a real linen hardcover in six colors. Built for the coffee table and the tenth reading, not the drawer.
Private by default
Your photos are processed, printed, and deleted after 30 days. They are never used to train anything, never sold, never shared, and never pushed into a feed.
At your door in seven days
Printed near you, packed in recycled board, and tracked the whole way. Most books arrive before the tan fades and the jet lag lifts.
How it works
Three steps. One of them is checking the mail.
No drag-and-drop layouts. No Sunday lost to a template. You pick the dates, we build the draft, you say yes.
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OctoberPick dates
Oct 4 to Oct 14 · 2,314 photos
Point us at the trip
Connect your camera roll and pick the dates. That is the entire upload. Nothing to sort, nothing to star, nothing to drag into folders first.
2
Chapter 2 · Sintra
Watch the story take shape
In about a minute you get a full draft: chapters, layouts, captions. Swap a photo, rename a chapter, or leave every choice exactly as it is.
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Delivered · Thu 9:41
Open it on the doormat
Approve the draft, pick a linen, and we print, bind, and ship. Seven days on average, tracked all the way, wrapped like something worth keeping.
Pricing
Honest prices for a book you will keep.
Every tier includes AI curation, captions, unlimited previews, and a free reprint if anything arrives less than perfect.
Postcard
A long weekend, told well.
$39
per book, one-offper book, three a year
- 40 pages, up to 60 photos
- 8 × 8 in square hardcover
- Linen cover in six colors
- AI curation and captions
- One round of edits
Voyage
The whole trip, start to finish.
$69
per book, one-offper book, three a year
- 80 pages, up to 150 photos
- 10 × 8 in landscape, lay-flat binding
- Foil-stamped title on the cover
- Map endpapers of your route
- Unlimited edits before printing
Odyssey
For the year you will not forget.
$119
per book, one-offper book, three a year
- 160 pages, up to 400 photos
- 12 × 10 in, lay-flat, with slipcase
- Foil title on cover and spine
- Unlimited edits before printing
- Second copy at 40% off
Trip pass: three books over twelve months, each billed when you order it. Cancel any time. Shipping is free in the US, UK, and EU.
Stories
Books that get opened more than once.
Real trips, real coffee tables, lightly edited for length and the occasional swear word.
“I took four thousand photos in Japan and had looked at maybe forty of them. The book has ninety-two, and every single one made my mum cry. In the good way.”
“I expected a photo dump with nicer margins. I got chapters. It somehow knew the day we got lost in Fez was the best day of the trip.”
“We give one to my grandparents after every trip now. They do not do Instagram. They do this, and they do it at the kitchen table with a magnifying glass.”
“The captions were spookily right. It called the beach evening ‘the night nobody wanted to go back’ and that was exactly, precisely it.”
“Honeymoon book arrived in six days. The linen is the real thing, not the glossy laminate stuff, and the pages actually lie flat. We bought a second one for his parents.”
Questions
The things people ask before they order.
Short answers, no fine print hidden behind them.
Still curious? Write to hello@driftwood.co and a human, not a bot, answers within a day.
It scores every photo on sharpness, faces and expressions, light, variety, and where it sits in the timeline of the trip. Then it builds a story arc: the arrival, the highlights, the quiet in-between days, the last evening. You see every choice it made, and you can overrule any of them with one tap.
No. You pick a date range and Driftwood reads from your camera roll on iPhone or Android, or from a Google Photos or iCloud album. Only the selected range is sent, and every photo is compressed on your phone first, so a 2,000-photo trip uploads in a few minutes on hotel Wi-Fi.
They stay on our servers for 30 days so you can reorder or tweak, then they are deleted. We never use them to train models, never sell or share them, and nothing is ever public. If you want them gone sooner, there is a delete button and it does exactly what it says.
Yes. Swap photos, rewrite captions, rename chapters, move spreads, change the cover linen and the title. Postcard includes one round of edits. Voyage and Odyssey are unlimited until the moment you press print.
Books print within three business days at the facility nearest you, then ship tracked. Most arrive in five to eight days in the US, UK, and EU, and in eight to fourteen days elsewhere. Gift orders can be shipped straight to the recipient with a handwritten note.
If the book arrives damaged or a print is not right, we reprint it free, no photos required. If you simply do not like it, tell us within 30 days and we refund you in full. You keep the book. Someone will still enjoy it.
Start today
The trip you keep meaning to do something about? This is the something.
Send us your email and we will send back a sample spread built from a real trip, so you can see the paper, the captions, and the chapters before you spend a cent.
No card needed. One email, no drip campaign. Or skip the sample and start your book now.