Motif: Print your memories

This app constantly crashes when you try to check out. They also refuse to let you order multiple products at once meaning you pay for shipping on each album.

I have been using motif ever since apple stopped being the printing agent for its photos (Aparature) projects. I moved over to Motif since it was said that they were the actual print shop for Apple anyways. So it has been a long journey for me with how experience with Motif has changed over time. The moment Mimeo bought the company a few years ago I noticed that the paper quality ant print slightly degraded. On top of that the Photos plugin for Mac freezes every few minutes. The task of completing a photo book became so unbearable that I tried something else. Wasn’t sure if it was my computer or the app itself I switched from my favorite intel iMac to m3pro MacBook Pro and had the same experience so it is the plugin. Installed their Mimo app and it worked flawlessly on my iMac. Ordered through the mimo app and my album wasn’t perfectly made like Motif ideas to do. The paper was cut at a slight angle and it shows on the inside of the back cover. Regrettably Mimeo didn’t hold up to the promise that Motif used to.

I am a 73 year old Marine and I Like things to be squared away! Not being a techie at the same time I enjoy utilizing “MOTIF” to Create photo memories for my Family and Friend’s… the process and layout possibilities are great and this may be a special gift to our NEW NEIGHBOR…. “Semper fi, Jerry”

Very easy to use with many excellent features

So many problems placing the order. If I hadn’t already put in many hours making my photo book, I never would have placed the order. No technical support.

Interface is clunky. There was no way to delete pages. If you change anything, you have to always go back to the beginning of your photo library. When I first logged in, it gave me a promo code but didn’t save it anywhere so by the time I finished the project, I had forgotten it.

I used motif before mimeo bought it and loved it. However, this year, I just spent hours building a photobook for my husband’s 60th birthday and the purchase process has failed five times…gets stuck uploading. I’m on solid internet and have been in chat with support three times since I started this project. If you create a book in the mobile app, you can’t open it on your MacBook in iPhoto. The app and the MacBook are separate and don’t talk to each other. Apparently my photobook on my phone is too big to upload and it has failed five times the mimeo help just says “we value your feedback”. It appears that they have a few kinks to work out. I will not use Motif again and recommend that others use caution. Update - changed from 1 to 3 stars. I was able to process the order from my iPad, it arrived earlier than expected and is beautiful. However the mobile app and the OS app are not compatible, you can’t go back and forth between mobile device and laptop.

I found the web site app and all the platforms hard to use and not intuitive to what I was trying to accomplish.

Ive been missing the ability to make photo books, I have 7 more to do, since Apple stopped. Motif is great, quality is superb. Still trying to figure out a couple of details with the program but the results so far have been fantastic! Thank you, Monica

Since apple’s elimination of the in-app photo book creation feature, Mimeo has been a good alternative. However, after having made several projects throughout the years, Mimeo discontinued my account without notifying me, making it almost impossible to purchase projects that I created 😢. (Note: can’t buy your projects without an account: no buy as guest option). In addition, I encountered issues accessing photos saved to my iPhone (using 14 Pro Max), but found work arounds to resolve this. Also discovered that Mimeo:Print Your memories & Mimeo Photo are the same exact app…. Outside of that, it’s simple to use and somewhat convenient 👍