Desktop Album Design Software for
Working Photographers.Modernized.
Everything you need to design stunning albums
BookProofs is 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 areas 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 BookProofs 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
Export proofs with numbered overlays for client feedback - or send a full online proof with Client Proofing.
Pro Export
PDF or JPEG, spread or page, sRGB or Adobe RGB - with export set to vendor specs.
Hey there!
I'm Andy...
An active wedding and commercial photographer for 15 years, former co-host of Wedding Photographers Unite, and founder of BookProofs. Here’s the last piece of feedback we received just before launch...it captures why I built BookProofs Designer better than I ever could. Hit play for the story - and feel free to reach out to me directly on the contact page and I’ll personally get back to you shortly!
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."
Yours to keep.
One Time Purchase, Lifetime Access. No Hidden Fees.
The real cost of album design software over 10 years
Looking for client proofing? It’s priced separately - see plans →
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Get started in minutes. Full-featured app, no credit card or login required. Export unlocks with purchase.
Client Proofing
Bring your clients into the process.
Share proofs, gather feedback, and manage revisions.
BookProofs Designer is and always will be a one-time purchase - See Client Proofing details & pricing →
Your client reviews proofs online with a clean, simply branded proofing experience.
What's new
All the latest updates, improvements, and fixes to BookProofs.
- NewFlip photos: right-click any photo and choose Flip Horizontal to mirror it.
- NewFlipping works on multi-selections, and the flip stays with the photo through template changes, swaps, and moves to another spread.
- NewAn instantly searchable help section is now a click away: from the ? in the header, from the Help menu, or with F1 on Windows.
- NewQuestion mark icons at key locations in the app open the matching help topic directly.
- ImprovedSet one corner radius for every photo and color filled placeholder in the project from Settings, instead of rounding each one by hand. Corners you round individually still ignore the global setting, and Clear All Individual Corner Rounding in Settings puts everything back on the project setting. The cover keeps its own rounding.
- ImprovedBold, italic, and underline now apply to a selected range of text, alongside the font, size, color, and print finish styling added in 1.3.4.
- ImprovedFiner rotation control: small 1-2 degree corrections can be made by holding the Option key while rotating images on canvas.
- ImprovedImage placement settings have been retired - every project now uses the balanced placement for initially placed layouts.
- ImprovedAlbum Epoca has been removed from the new project vendor list as they are no longer in business. Existing Album Epoca projects still open and export normally.
- ImprovedThe Feature Tour can now be closed at any point.
- FixedThe slideshow now matches the canvas for rotated photos that have also been panned.
- FixedFixed dark mode display issues in a number of dialogs and display areas.
- NewText range styling: style any part of a text block on its own - select a range and give it a different font, size, color, or print finish.
- NewFill any empty placeholder with a solid color or gradient: right-click it and choose Fill with Color. Ideal for color blocks behind text or graphics - like transparent PNGs.
- NewFills behave like photos: they take borders and rounded corners and stay throughout normal template changes.
- NewFills also work behind photos: place a transparent PNG over a color block and the color shows through, and photos in Contain mode sit on the color. Right-click a placed image and choose Fill Behind with Color, or Remove & Fill with Color.
- NewRounded corners: select a placed image and drag the corner pin. Works on multi-selections and in the Template Editor, and image borders follow the curve.
- NewRounding is print-aware on book projects: corners and rounded image borders that would land in the trim area automatically stay square so exports match the finished book. Digital and social projects keep full rounding everywhere.
- NewAuto page numbers: turn them on in Settings and every page gets one, with numbering that stays correct as you add, remove, and reorder spreads.
- NewChoose the page number style, color, add a prefix, set the starting number, and adjust the corner distance, font, and size for all numbers at once. Individual page numbers can be separately repositioned, restyled or deleted.
- ImprovedEvery color picker in the app now has an eyedropper - pick up any color from anything on your screen, including your own photos.
- ImprovedText boxes are now placeholder position aware for snapping / letter spacing added to text toolbar.
- ImprovedThe cover notice now also clarifies that covers export at full print resolution for anyone printing covers themselves.
- FixedText no longer goes missing from PDF exports in specific instances.
- FixedCorner rounding on the cover now previews live while you adjust it in the cover editor.
- ImprovedExport dialog now guides you toward the right settings for digital options, with defaults that match how the exports are actually used.
- FixedPhotos are no longer removed from an existing spread when a drop cannot be completed in specific instances.
- FixedSpread timeline thumbnails now show correctly after a Photoshop round trip and the project is saved / reopened.
- FixedExposure and black and white adjustments correctly persist when the photo is moved on canvas.
- FixedThe "Generating Previews" indicator no longer gets stuck with no way to dismiss when cancelling a large drop in specific scenarios.
- FixedPhotos with black and white or exposure adjustments keep their color profile in PDF exports.
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Common questions
No. BookProofs Designer is a one-time purchase - $249. There are no monthly or annual fees. You buy it once and it’s yours to keep, with updates included for the lifetime of the product - no paid v2, ever. Client Proofing is a separate product with its own pricing - the designer app itself is always a one-time purchase. See Client Proofing pricing →
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. (Client Proofing is a separate product with its own pricing.)
Yes. The free demo includes the full design toolset: unlimited projects, 2,450+ templates, FlashDesign, and the template editor. Only exporting 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 Designer 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 Designer offers a 30-day money-back guarantee. If you're not satisfied, contact support for a full refund.
Where do I get help using BookProofs Designer or Client Proofing?
The help section covers both - 149 topics, each one linked to the exact moment in a video tutorial that shows it. You can also open it from the Help menu inside the app.
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beautiful?
Start designing with BookProofs. Download free and start creating today.
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