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I tried this one out as my kids are toddlers now and I never finished their baby books. I couldn’t get past the first few pages. The app kept crashing on the new iPad Pro. It wouldn’t allow me to scroll far back enough to get my youngest baby pictures. So then I took the time to put the pics in a separate album. You can only add 1 to 4 pictures per week or age milestone. Additionally, the questions that it asks and leaves open ended can’t fit on the page space provided. Then back to the pictures, it compresses the pictures on upload leaving you with a horrible quality photo. I couldn’t get past these failures. Especially having to force quit the app several times just to get one page done.

I committed to this program for my child’s baby book when I subscribed to get access to the “plus” features so have to use it now, but I’ve been very disappointed. There are so many little programming issues that would be easy to fix and improve the app tremendously. I even emailed my feedback to their team some months ago and haven’t seen any changes. For example - once chosen, the photos for a specific page cannot be swapped around on the page (as you can do on many popular photobook sites). You have to delete and re-select each one individually. Second, the graph of weights and heights doesn’t have a normal x-axis based on linear time. Rather, each data point is the same distance apart, whether it was 1 month or 2 months since the last data point. Oh, and if you don’t have a height or weight for a date then it substitutes a ‘zero’ value, making the graph dip to zero. Finally (though there are many more examples), the pages don’t populate into a book in chronological order. Each page is dated, but heaven forbid they would actually populate the book in that order. The pages have to be individually selected to be added to a book (no “select all” option) and then manually dragged into the order you want them in. These seem like some pretty basic features for an app that’s centered on making photo books. I would not recommend paying for or using it.

I really wanted to like this app. I did the 7-day free trial while expecting to go along with my 1-year subscription. I found the app glitchy, and the pages I created were full of typos that I couldn’t edit out. In fact, when I tried to edit some of the typos, the app froze and couldn’t save my changes. I then learned that Typos were inherent to the application—not something I could edit out. For example, randomly capitalizing letters. In addition, the picture layouts were limited. I couldn’t format photos the way I needed in I order to capture full images. There were also small annoyances. For instance, you have to add both height and weight, not just weight or height. We don’t track height as consistently, so this didn’t work for us. I couldn’t imagine paying for a baby book riddled with typos that I can’t edit, so I ended the free trial and did not go ahead with the subscription. The last thing I did in the app before canceling was lose an entire milestone page because the app froze and wouldn’t save 30 minutes of work.