Every trip, its own book

Your trip, finally off your phone and on your coffee table.

Upload the photos from your trip. Gildbook reads where and when each one was taken, designs a book around those places, and prints it.

Join the betaSee how it works
  • No face recognition.
  • We never train AI on your photos.
  • GPS removed from anything you share.

Three quiet steps

You upload. The Place Engine does the sorting.

  1. 01

    Upload a trip

    Drop in a folder or a camera roll. Blurred and duplicate shots are set aside, not deleted.

  2. 02

    The Place Engine reads it

    Where, when and what each photo is becomes a shape for the book: a page per place, a spread per day.

  3. 03

    Change anything, then print

    Move a photo, rewrite a caption, or just talk to your album. Then it is printed and shipped to you.

A gravel path through a tall bamboo grove.
A hand holding a map by a train window, autumn hills passing outside.
Stepping stones crossing a wide river below autumn hills.

Day four · Arashiyama

The long walk up to the bamboo

Captions are written from the places and the times in your photos. You can rewrite every one of them.

Polished with AI · on the credits page

Reality Dial

You decide how much the AI may change.

Every change is listed on the credits page at the back of the book. An edited photo is never passed off as the original.

  • Real

    Nothing is changed.

  • Polished · default

    Light, colour and dust.

  • Enhanced

    Strangers removed, skies fixed.

A fourth level, Imagined, arrives after the beta.

A canal street of wooden houses in autumn, with a parked van and a passer-by.Real
As taken: a van and a passer-by in the shot.
The same canal street with the van and the passer-by removed.Enhanced with AI
The van and the passer-by are taken out. The credits page says so.

Both pictures are made with AI to show what the Dial does. Neither is a customer's photo.

Designed for the place you went

Eight places have a book style of their own. Everywhere else gets one designed for it.

  • A dirt road through dry highland grass toward rocky hills.

    Armenia

  • A black-sand beach with surf and green cliffs.

    Hawaiʻi

  • Zinc rooftops and chimneys of apartment buildings.

    Paris

  • Terraced hillsides with cypress trees and a winding road.

    Italy

  • A wooden country house with a red maple in the garden.

    Japan

  • An ochre and teal wall with a wooden door and potted plants.

    Mexico

  • A courtyard of blue and white tiles around a small fountain.

    Morocco

  • A lone acacia tree on dry grassland at dusk.

    Kenya safari

A style shows “Preview” until a reviewer from that culture has approved it.

Leaves

Design, writing and chat are unlimited. Leaves are for photo touch-ups.

One Leaf is one AI photo touch-up, and the cost is shown before you make it. Nothing else uses Leaves. Two yearly memberships: Gild and Gild Pro.

Five promises

The same five lines, everywhere we say them.

  1. We never train AI on your photos.
  2. Your photos are sent to Anthropic and Google only to make your album, on paid tiers that do not train on them.
  3. Location is used only to design your album. GPS is removed from anything you share or export.
  4. We do not recognize faces.
  5. Delete anything, any time. Originals are removed after the retention period.

Every trip, its own book.

Join the beta and make the first one from a trip you already took.

Every photograph on this page is made with AI, as an example. None is a customer's book or a real person.