Design Photo Albums
With Ease
The album design software photographers always wanted.
Everything you need to design stunning albums
Book Proofs combines editorial precision with powerful automation. Built for photographers who value their time as much as their craft.
Drag & Drop Everything
Drop images onto placeholders, swap positions instantly, and move images to the current spread, current pages, timeline, or adjacent spreads with ease. Every interaction feels effortless.
- Drop zones with visual feedback for not just spreads, but pages too
- Drag spreads on the timeline to reorder
- Multi-image selection and batch moves
- Respects your drag, drop, and remove preferences
- Keyboard shortcuts for power users
2,450+ hand-crafted templates
Professionally designed layouts that auto-adapt to your images. Every template is carefully crafted for balance, white space, and visual flow.
- Layouts for every page size and aspect ratio
- Auto-switching based on image count
- Page and spread templates included
- Includes inversions and variations
Fine-tune every detail
Adjust zooming, panning, rotation and borders directly on canvas. Your layout adapts to your vision.
- Direct on-canvas manipulation
- Zoom, pan, and rotate with precision
- Customizable borders for project or single placeholders
- One-click black & white conversion
- Edit in Photoshop, changes sync automatically
Build your own templates
Create custom templates with the visual editor. Save them to your library and reuse across any project.
- Visual drag-and-drop template builder
- Smart snapping to margins, gutters, and other placeholders
- Save to your custom template library
Set the scene
Apply custom background images per spread or project-wide. Control opacity, scale, and pan for artistic layering.
- Per-spread or project-wide backgrounds
- Adjust opacity for subtle layering with background color
- Scale and pan to fit your vision
Drop to Flashdesign your album
Drop multiple images to the spread timeline flashdesign drop area and let Book Proofs do the design work for you. We analyze image aspect ratios and orientations to distribute them intelligently across spreads in seconds. What used to take hours now happens instantly.
- Automatic aspect ratio matching
- Instant multi-spread albums
- Fully customizable after generation
Quality Control
Live DPI monitoring, missing file detection, and pre-export reports ensure print-ready files.
Proofing Numbers
Export proofs with numbered overlays for client feedback. Client proofing coming 2026.
Pro Export
PDF or JPEG, spread or page, sRGB or Adobe RGB—with export set to vendor specs.
All your favorite vendors…ready to go
Export files ready for your preferred print lab with built-in presets and specifications.
Don't see your lab? You'll likely find it in the app. If not, request an integration on Discord or email.
What photographers
are saying
Real Reviews from Real Photographers
"I love how versatile BookProofs is. It truly is like the Lightroom of album design. It's intuitive, seamless, and has so many customization options without being overwhelming."
"Bookproofs is an easy way for photographers to design albums without all the fuss! Easy to use and create albums quickly and efficiently!"
"BookProofs has made album building so simple and easy to navigate. All of my complaints on other album designers has been addressed and seems like every detail was very thought through to make our lives easier. I love how I can switch images seamlessly, change the layouts easily. Its amazing!"
"This is clearly an album design software for photographers BY photographers. It's super intuitive and easy to create albums quickly."
"BookProofs really opened my eyes to the creativity that is possible with album design! No more boring layouts that all look the same. I can finally create fully custom designs for my clients quickly and efficiently!"
"I'm blown away by how easy BookProofs is to use. It honestly makes album design fun again."
"I assumed a perfect album designer just didn't exist. I've tried several and not one had EVERYTHING thought out and implemented. Not only does BookProofs have EVERY feature I wished for, and ones I didn't know I needed, they're thoughtfully laid out/designed and beautifully put together for a really awesome experience. Using BookProofs has reinvigorated the promotion/excitement of doing albums for my wedding couples."
"BookProofs makes album design feel really intuitive and flexible. I love being able to swap templates on individual pages and quickly find layouts based on how many images I'm working with."
"BookProofs was extremely intuitive to use and made creating album designs very efficient. It offered endless options to customize and create a professional album for my clients while still saving time and energy."
"As a wedding photographer, efficiency and organization are huge when it comes to album design. BookProofs made the entire process incredibly smooth. I loved how customizable everything was while still keeping the workflow streamlined and organized. It made designing albums feel much less time-consuming, and the final results looked polished and professional. Overall, it's a great tool for photographers who want to design albums quickly while still maintaining full creative control!"
"I've used a lot of album design software over the years and honestly? BookProofs is the one that actually makes sense. You open it and it just...works. No learning curve, no digging through menus, no Googling how to do basic things. Someone clearly sat down and thought through every single detail before they built this and it shows. The whole design and proofing process is so much smoother than anything else I've tried. It feels like it was built by someone who actually shoots weddings and knows what photographers need, not just a dev team guessing from the outside. No subscription for BookProofs Designer. In an industry where every tool wants a piece of your monthly budget, that's a really big deal. If you're still using something else, just try BookProofs. I think you'll wonder why you waited."
"BookProofs Designer is giving us what we've been asking for without the subscription pricing."
"I loved having the flexibility of letting the software design my images, or letting me choose individual images to move wherever I wanted. Plus, the ability to design pages and not just spreads is awesome!"
"You can tell BookProofs was designed by actual Photographers. It goes the extra mile to look and feel like something photographers can use without the typical frustrations."
Built by a photographer,
for photographers
How Book Proofs Designer came to be. Chances are we agree on the problems being solved. Hit play for the story.
Own it forever
One Time Purchase, Lifetime Access. No Hidden Fees.
The real cost of album design software over 5 years
Download BookProofs
Get started in minutes. Full-featured app, no credit card or login required. Export unlocks with purchase.
Client Proofing
An optional companion to Book Proofs Designer.
Share proofs, communicate with your clients, and manage revisions.
Book Proofs Designer is and will always be a one-time purchase. Client Proofing is a separate, optional add-on.
Your client reviews proofs online with a clean, simply branded proofing experience.
What's new
All the latest updates, improvements, and fixes to BookProofs.
- ImprovedOn macOS 26 (Tahoe), the BookProofs Dock icon has been released from squircle jail (it's a thing)
- Behind the ScenesAdded quick links to Photographer Dashboard from the My Proofs dialog and the Help menu. Dashboard in help menu is available now even if not actively proofing in beta (proofing is anticipated to fully release this month, mid-late June).
- NewAdded panorama and tall aspect ratio presets - 2:1, 1:2, 3:1, and 1:3 - for placeholders and new layouts.
- ImprovedSaving a single page as a custom template now mirrors it to the opposite page so it's ready to use on both the left and right pages.
- FixedFixed inside borders disappearing on digital and social projects when the gutter gap was removed. Borders at the spread center now stay visible on those project types.
- Behind the ScenesRevision proofs now use a tailored default email template.
- Behind the ScenesThe comments panel shows a running count of how many spreads still have unresolved client comments.
- Behind the ScenesProof button responsiveness updated.
- NewHover any template in the tray to preview it on your canvas before applying. Works for full spreads and for individual left or right pages. There's a setting in the Settings panel to turn it off if you prefer the old behavior.
- NewSave the left or right page of any layout as a custom template from template editor. Saved page templates appear under the Custom filter when viewing a single page in the tray, alongside saved spread templates.
- NewFlashDesign now recognizes black and white photos on import and groups them onto their own spreads, while keeping color photos together. Drop order is preserved within color and black & white groups to maintain chronological flow.
- ImprovedAdded Shift+T to toggle trim lines and safety margins together.
- Behind the ScenesEmail preview in the proofing dialog uses backup system fonts for preview as needed.
- Behind the ScenesClearer copy for proofing flow.
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Common questions
No. BookProofs Designer is a one-time purchase at $249. There are no monthly or annual fees. You buy it once and own it forever, with all future updates included — no paid v2, ever. Client Proofing will be a separate, optional add-on. The designer app will always be a one-time purchase.
No. We're committed to evolving BookProofs Designer as a single product — one v1 that keeps getting better. Your one-time purchase includes all future updates for the lifetime of the product. We will not release a paid major-version upgrade that requires you to repurchase. (Separate add-on services like Client Proofing have their own pricing.)
Yes. The free demo includes full functionality: unlimited projects, 2,450+ templates, FlashDesign, and the template editor. Only full-resolution export is gated behind a purchase. No credit card or login required.
BookProofs Designer runs on macOS (11 Big Sur or later, Apple Silicon and Intel) and Windows (10 64-bit or later).
BookProofs includes 65+ print vendor presets including Miller's Lab, WHCC, Bay Photo, ProDPI, Graphistudio, Asuka Book, Nations Photo Lab, and many more. Export files are print-ready with the correct dimensions for each vendor. If your lab isn't listed, request an integration at support@bookproofs.com.
Yes. BookProofs offers a 30-day money-back guarantee. If you're not satisfied, contact support for a full refund.
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beautiful?
Start designing with Book Proofs. Download free and start creating today.
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