Chatbooks Monthbooks

What's in the box: Each month you get a printed photo book made from your own phone photos, either a standard Monthbook or a smaller 30 to 60 page Monthly Mini.

Chatbooks Monthbooks is a photo book subscription for parents who take hundreds of phone pictures and rarely print any of them. Each month you turn your recent photos into a small printed book, so pictures stop piling up on your phone. Monthbooks start from $15 per book. A smaller Monthly Minis option starts from $10 per book, runs 30 to 60 pages and is sized for small hands. Standard shipping is free. You make the books mainly in the Chatbooks app, which is designed for quick, one handed use and offers a deliberately limited set of design choices. That keeps the process fast, but if you like detailed layout control you may find it restrictive. Subscribers can also ask the CB Studio team to make their books for them, which is a real help for busy households. You can pause or cancel anytime. The company also promises to replace books that kids damage and to fix things if you are unhappy with a book. The site does not give the page count or trim size of a standard Monthbook. For special occasions, Chatbooks also sells Classic Books and Luxury Layflats, but those are separate one off purchases and not part of the subscription.