Photobook websites/ apps - recommendations please

[Motherof1and2dogs]

I have thousands and thousands of photos I want to print as I am so worried about loosing memories from my phone if anything ever was to happen to my phone, the cloud, technology etc so I want to go through my 20k photos on my phone and print off all of the ones that are of me and my family from 2016 to current. Printing photos and putting them into albums isn’t an option as the albums are so chunky and take up so much more space so I thought to do those photo books instead. My goal is to do one a month until I am up to date with it all.

I just tried an app called ‘Once Upon’, took me about an hour to load, arrange and sort 500 photos which was the maximum I could do, however due to a lot of the photos being low resolution I have to go through and delete them all which I do not want to do! So many of them are important memories that I want.

Does anyone know of any decent website or app I can use that will print out regardless of resolution??!! I’m not too bothered if they come out a little blurry. Thanks in advance.

I've used Photobox for about 10 years. It's pretty user friendly once you've got your head round it.
You do need to sort your photos fairly ruthlessly beforehand because if you upload too many to their site at the start, you'll waste loads of time pondering. It can take quite a lot of time if you want a more bespoke look but I'm rather a perfectionist and don't go for the automatic settings.

It's really worth doing and you won't regret the hours spent on it! Actually I quite enjoy doing them. I've done a few just for special holidays and occasions. I did a mini one for my mum after we'd had a perfect day in the Lake District and she loved it.

On the resolution thing, it sometimes says too low and I've just ignored it and the picture has been fine. Not as high res as the others but good enough.

I agree that you need to go through your pictures first, otherwise the process will take too much time. Photobox is great, can confirm! Snapfish is said to be pretty good too, but I haven't used it personally, my sister ordered a wedding anniversary photobook for my parents from them and it looked amazing, but I don't know how the service actually is. She never mentioned any dissatisfaction, so I think everything went smoothly.

If you have a number of photos from the same day and you'd like to have them all printed out, you can make photo collages (here is a guide on making one) and print them out as collages, it'll save you some space and money. As for the low res pictures that you aren't sure of, you can make a video with these photos (here is how you do that) and burn it to the DVD, thus still having them around.