According to Photography Talk, “We take more photos every 2 minutes than all of humanity did in the 18th Century.” While our parents kept traditional photo albums (and took a lot less photos), as modern parents, what's our equivalent? Where will technology take us in the next 5-10 years? Can we still rely on keeping our memories solely on our phones? The solution lies in a keepsake app called Baby Notebook.
In this fast-paced digital age, you may be struggling with getting those photos off your phone and into your hands. That's where the Baby Notebook app comes in. Baby Notebook is a keepsake app that preserves your family's memories in a timeless custom book. This app combines text and photos to tell your family's whole story— from Baby's First Year to Family Yearbooks. It conveniently prompts you each week to fill out your book while memories are fresh and digestible, instead of all at once at the end of one year, to ensure you actually finish your memory book. Best of all, the books are high-quality, beautiful, and affordable. In this post, we compare Baby Notebook to traditional photo albums and photo book websites. Check it out and see which is best for documenting your family's story.
A Modern Keepsake App vs Traditional Photo Albums
A lot of families start their memory keeping journeys with a traditional, scrapbook-style baby book. This consumes more time and supplies than most people have on hand. You have to print photos, cut and paste, and mentally keep track of everything you want to include. You often end up with pages that don't fit your story, too.
Before having a baby, you could have spent a whole day putting together a photo book, but once your little one arrives, finding time for that becomes a challenge.With a keepsake app like Baby Notebook, you don't have to worry about printing photos or losing track of notes. Everything already lives on our phones these days. Baby Notebook makes it simple to organize all the elements of your story into a unique book.
Because Baby Notebook is a keepsake app, we were able to include supportive reminders, unlike a traditional baby book. You can set weekly notifications to remind you to upload photos and text. The notifications include prompts relevant to where you are on your memory keeping journey. Here are two examples from our Toddler Book:
Reminder! Your toddler is 13 months old!
Snap a photo of your toddler at 13 months old for the timeline at the beginning of your toddler book. Tip: take the photo in the same spot or on the same chair each month.
Reminder!
What mischief does your toddler make? (ex: climbs out of the crib) Find more monthly prompts in our app by tapping the 💡 icon
These reminders give you the relevant ideas you need to finish your memory book within a year. Even if you set yourself weekly reminders to work on a traditional baby book, you would have to print your photos weekly and come up with all of the writing prompts yourself. That alone would take a lot of time and energy. At Baby Notebook, we've already collected relevant writing prompts for you.
Baby Notebook vs Shutterfly
While it's true that Baby Notebook isn't the only keepsake app on the market, a lot of its features set it apart. That's especially true when it comes to convenience, design, and cost.
Photo book sites like Shutterfly give you limited options when it comes to design. If you choose to create a book there, you either have to start from scratch or sift through designs that will ultimately distract from your photos. You'll waste a lot of time sifting through photos and formatting them. And how do you incorporate letters to your children or other writing without any prompts?
It takes time to figure it all out. And time is what you're lacking. Convenience is what you need. We kept that in mind throughout the design process for Baby Notebook.
Features you'll love:
✨Convenient—a baby book in your pocket. Work on it anywhere, at any time, with customizable notifications to remind you.
✨Flexible—Designed for all families with customizable titles, writing prompts to choose from, and the option to add, replace, or hide a page (so it won't print in your book).
✨Gorgeous—An Insta-worthy hardbound photobook that you'll want to display on your coffee table (not stashed on a shelf collecting dust).
Another advantage Baby Notebook has over any other photo book site or keepsake app: You know the prices going in. Often other apps and sites don't tell you the actual cost of your book until you're done. Why not choose a keepsake app that's transparent about pricing all the way through the process? For a 12x12, 111-page book, Shutterfly charges $400.27. With a 51% discount, that's still $215.94. Baby Notebook, on the other hand, costs significantly less. For a 12x12, 115-page book, you pay $99 on top of the $49.99 premium subscription.
Many of our users are pleasantly surprised by our quality and large book and have noted the difference in price and quality in their reviews.
“This app is so easy and streamlined! Lastly, the book itself is not overpriced and the cost is very reasonable for the amount of pages and value ($99). It's a substantial book. I will tell you that other sites charge double to triple this amount and the quality is not even close.” - Olivia
Your Modern Memory Book
Does Baby Notebook sound like the perfect keepsake app for you? We make it easy and affordable for you to preserve your family's memories in a timeless book as unique as your story.
Download the Baby Notebook app and get started on your modern memory book!
Thank you to Sara Welch Photography for these great photos of the Baby Notebook app in action!