A curator, not a collage maker
It reads every photo the way a good editor would: sharp over blurry, candid over posed, one sunset instead of nine. What’s left is the trip as you actually remember it.
AI-curated travel books · bound in 7 days
Your trip deserves a better ending than your camera roll.
Driftwood reads the 1,284 photos on your phone, keeps the 62 that actually tell the story, and binds them into a linen hardcover you’ll still be pulling off the shelf in thirty years. Your first draft is ready in about four minutes.
No card needed. You only pay when you press print.
★★★★★4.9 from 18,400 travellers
Chapter oneThe yellow tram we didn’t take— 14 May, Alfama, 8:40 a.m.
Vol. 03Lisbon,
SlowlyNine days · 62 photographs
SlowlyNine days · 62 photographs
62 keepers foundfrom 1,284 photos
9 chapters draftedcaptions in your voice
212,480books on shelves
4.9/5from 18,400 reviews
61countries delivered
4 minto your first draft
As read about in
The Sunday AtlasWANDERLYPaper & SaltSlow Travel Quarterlykindred.NORTHBOUNDThe Departure Lounge
Chapter 01 — What it does
Not another photo book you’ll never finish.
You know the one. Forty browser tabs, a half-built layout, a discount code that expired in March. Driftwood does the tedious ninety percent, so the only part left is the part that’s fun.
It finds the plot
Photos are gathered by day, place and mood into chapters — the arrival, the long lunch, the wrong turn that became the best afternoon.
Captions that sound like you
Tell it three things about the trip. It drafts short, unfussy captions from places, dates and your notes. Keep them, rewrite them, or delete every one.
Bound to be kept
Smyth-sewn pages that lie properly flat, 200 gsm archival matte paper, and a linen cover in nine colours with a foil-stamped title.
Your photos stay yours
Processed privately, never used to train anything, and wiped from our servers 30 days after your book ships. Sooner, if you say so.
Love it, or we reprint it
Colour a touch off? Corner dinged in the post? Send us a photo. A fresh copy goes out the same week — no forms, no fuss.
Chapter 02 — How it works
Three steps. One of them is making tea.
From camera roll to coffee table without opening a single layout tool.
12 – 21 May1,284 photos
Point it at a trip
Pick an album or a date range. Driftwood pulls from your camera roll, iCloud or Google Photos — and politely ignores the screenshots and the photo of where you parked.
Day threeThe long lunch
Read the first draft
Four minutes later a whole book is waiting: chapters, layouts, captions. Swap a photo, fix a line, or change nothing at all. Most people change very little.
Lisbon,
Slowly
Slowly
Arrives in7days
Hear the doormat thud
We print on archival paper, bind by hand in our Porto workshop, and have it at your door in seven days. Carbon-neutral shipping to 61 countries.
Chapter 03 — Pricing
One price per book. No surprises at checkout.
Postcard
For the long weekend that deserved more than a story post.
$34/ book
20 × 20 cm softcover · up to 40 pages
- AI curation & chapters
- Caption drafts in your voice
- 170 gsm silk-matte paper
- Unlimited edits before printing
Voyage
For the trip you’ll still be talking about in ten years.
$64/ book
28 × 21 cm linen hardcover · up to 90 pages
- Everything in Postcard
- Lay-flat, Smyth-sewn binding
- Linen in 9 colours, foil-stamped title
- 200 gsm archival matte paper
- Free reprint guarantee
Heirloom
For honeymoons, sabbaticals and once-in-a-lifetimes.
$129/ book
30 × 30 cm clothbound · up to 160 pages
- Everything in Voyage
- 250 gsm cotton-rag paper
- Hand-finished slipcase
- A human editor reviews every spread
- Second copy at half price
Every book starts with a free preview. Shipping is free over $50 and carbon-neutral everywhere.
Chapter 04 — Notes from readers
People keep telling us they cried at a PDF.
★★★★★I had 2,100 photos from Japan and zero energy. Four minutes later I was crying at a preview. The actual book is even better — heavier than I expected, in the best way.
★★★★★It picked the photo of my dad laughing on the ferry. I’d scrolled past it a hundred times. That’s the cover now, and he keeps it by his chair.
★★★★★I’ve started three photo books in other apps and finished none of them. Driftwood finished this one for me, then let me take the credit.
★★★★★The captions were eerily close to how I’d say it. I changed maybe six words. My sister asked which of us wrote them.
★★★★★We send one to the grandparents after every summer. Four books in, they’ve stopped asking for anything else at Christmas.
Chapter 05 — Fair questions
Before you hand over your holiday.
Still wondering about something? Write to hello@driftwood.example — a real person in Porto answers, usually before lunch.
It looks at what a photo editor would: sharpness, light, faces, and whether you already have six of the same view. Then it looks at what an editor can’t — which shots you favourited, lingered on or sent to someone — and balances the selection so every day and every person gets a fair share of the story.
Everything. Swap photos, reorder chapters, rewrite captions, change the linen. The draft is a head start, not a verdict. That said, about seven in ten books go to print with fewer than five changes.
They’re encrypted in transit and at rest, used only to make your book, never used to train our models or anyone else’s, and deleted 30 days after your order ships. You can delete them sooner with one tap.
Printing and binding take three working days; delivery takes two to four more. Seven days is typical across Europe and North America. Need it for a birthday? Tell us at checkout and we’ll be honest about whether we can make it.
Then we haven’t finished. Send a photo of what’s wrong — colour, binding, a typo you spotted too late — and we’ll reprint it free or refund you. Your choice, no interrogation.
Yes. Send a link to your travel companions and their photos land in the same draft. Driftwood removes the near-duplicates and credits no one, so nobody argues about whose sunset it was.
Really. No card, no trial timer. You’ll see every page of your finished book before you spend anything, and the draft waits for you for 90 days.
The last page
Somewhere in your camera roll is a really good book.
Give us four minutes and an email address. We’ll show you every page before you pay a cent.
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