Nothing is uploaded
The whole book is built on your Mac. Your photos never touch a server, and the web file you share carries no location data.
Solution
A private photo book maker that never uploads your photos
Every other photo book maker asks you to upload your memories to a server first. PhotoCore builds the book on your Mac. Pick a trip or a person, and Stories lays out a web story or a print-ready PDF, with the photos never leaving your device.
Web story or PDFBuilt on your MacNo uploadAny print shop
How it works
Pick the photos, get a finished book
You choose the source, Stories does the layout
Start from a folder, a search result or a person. Stories chooses the best shots, orders them and lays them out like a printed magazine, in about ten seconds. You get a web story that opens in any browser, or a print-ready PDF photo book. Both are built on your Mac.
- Automatic selection, ordering and layout
- A single web file, or a print-ready PDF
- Nothing is uploaded to make it
Why it helps
A photo book that respects your photos
A web story, one file
Share a single page that opens in any browser, on any phone, offline, with no link that expires and no login.
Print-ready PDF
Export a 300 DPI PDF in standard sizes with print margins and no branding. Take it to any print shop you like.
It picks the photos
Stories drops the near duplicates and keeps the best frames, so you skip the tedious part and still get to swap anything.
Good to know
Made from an archive you already own
Because Stories is part of PhotoCore, it draws on what the app already knows about your library: the faces, the places, the dates. A trip becomes chapters by day and place, an event becomes acts with the people who were there, all computed on device. If your photos live on an external drive or a NAS, PhotoCore reads the originals to build the book and keeps them where they are.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Do my photos get uploaded to make the book?
No. Stories builds the web story and the PDF entirely on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded, and the web file you share carries no location data.
Can I print the PDF anywhere?
Yes. The PDF is 300 DPI in standard sizes like 8x10, 12x12, A4 and 21x21 cm, with print margins, and it carries no PhotoCore branding. Take it to any print shop.
Can I make a book from photos on an external drive?
Yes. PhotoCore works on folders, external drives and a NAS. It reads the originals to build the book and leaves them where they are.
Do I have to pick the photos myself?
No. Stories selects the best shots, drops near duplicates, orders them and lays them out. You can swap, hide or promote any photo afterward.
Get started free
Make a book without the cloud
Download PhotoCore free and try Stories with up to 10 photos per web story. Full access unlocks unlimited stories and the PDF photo book, as a one-time purchase.