Photo Books by Bob Books

I am a long term customer and have completed many books, however the trouble started with very little information that the web site was being updated so I spent hours completing my book only to find out at the end that everything I had prepared was lost. Help was a non starter which was very disappointing. I kept being told that my password was wrong so when I did complete my book I couldn’t order or pay for it? After three days of trying, I now have completed, ordered and paid. I am very disappointed, saddened and some what annoyed and will probably look for another site in the future. I will say though that I am pleased with the quality of my books and that’s why I’m disappointed.

First you seem to be only able to add pages at the end - frustrating. Then when I realised I need to set up an account, after setting up the album, the IOS system mislaid it? Fortunately this eventually appeared again after 5-10 mininutes of anguish thinking I might have to start again. I liked being able to drag and drop photos and being able to change the page layout. Allow insertion of pages and stop any IOS glitches and I would be extremely happy with the designer interface. Hope I am as happy with the album!

Absolutely love this company. I’ve been using this company to create wedding photo books for quite a few years now, and every time they deliver a fantastic, professional product. Highly recommend Bob Books.

This should be a great app but extremely glitchy on iOS, on both my iPad and iPhone. Keep having to log in and out as the book I’m attempting to create either freezes or doesn’t load. Can’t always view the top of the page, even when minimising the page view. It has taken me hours to get this far and I still can’t finish the book as it won’t load properly for me to edit! On the point of giving up, which is a shame as there are great reviews for the quality of these books. Maybe better if you have a laptop or non-iOS system?

I put together a photo book of my sons pictures every year. App is easy to use and like that I can start a book in January and add to it throughout the year until it’s ready to print at the end of the year.

Bobs book app is such an easy tool to use. I love how fast I can make a photo book from my phone. Layouts are great. Quality and colour excellent. Only wish there were a couple more layout options for portrait shots and I REALLY wish I could add a title on the spine.🙏🏻🙏🏻 then I wouldn’t need to go anywhere else for my photobooks.

Latest update seems to have stopped the app working - hope for an update to fix it soon.

I have just completed my second Bob book. The production quality of the first was excellent, so I shall be very satisfied if this one is as good. However, making this book in the app was a nightmare. I selected the photos and arranged them in the order I wanted in an album in Photos. So far, so good, but when I loaded them into the app the sequence was completely randomised--and that was after taking three attempts before the app would upload all the images. On the first two attempts it omitted several, again at random. So a process that should have taken short time took several hours, because for every page I had to locate the required photo in Bob's random order. Apart from that serious glitch, the app has several shortcomings, which limit its usefulness. Unless I have missed something, there is no way to number pages or to put the title on the spine--both very desirable, if not absolutely essential, when it comes to using the book. More seriously, the page layouts are very limited. For this project, for many pages I would have liked a large landscape layout with a caption, but this was not available. The choices were a small landscape with a caption, or large without. I did look at another theme to see if that gave the required choices, but it looked to be the same. At least the final ordering process was quick--once I had reset my password. I made two attempts to enter my original password, both times checking very carefully and both times being rejected. Is Bob one of those outfits which automatically rejects passwords once they reach a certain age, without telling the customer?

Had high hopes, was impressed by a book at a friends house. Glitchy UI, can’t seem to start a blank book without using the auto fill feature. Looks terrible on iPhone, doesn’t use full screen. Can’t retrospectively change theme or size, therefore need to start new book. Can’t delete unwanted books.

And highly recommended. Easy to use and navigate and end product is always delivered on time and to good quality. Only reason for not giving a 5/5 score is that there need to be a few more layout options with portrait shots (a default when using a phone to take a snap).