One photo a day. A book of your year, already made.
Take one real photo a day, or build it from the photos already on your phone. By December the yearbook is done, without an evening of sorting.
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A year of your life, in four thousand photos.
January comes. The photos are there, somewhere between the screenshots. The template is blank. The evening never comes. It did not get away from you. Your year is already on your phone.
The other way round.
The yearbook is made while the year happens. One photo a day, and the page is done. Started late? Build it from your camera roll.
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Take today's photo.
One gentle reminder a day. Anything counts: the coffee, the kids, the kitchen as it really looks. No filter needed, no caption required.
- 2
It lands on today's page.
Add a line if you like. On This Day brings back what you saw a year ago, and a short recap every Monday shows the week you just lived.
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In December, order the book.
Your year is laid out and waiting. Choose a cover. The book arrives at your door.
Did not start in January?
Tap Build my yearbook. Smart Fill picks about one photo for every day from your camera roll and builds the book for you. Swap any photo you like. The preview is free.
Smart Fill. The year you already photographed, in the book.
Did not start in January? Smart Fill looks through your camera roll, picks about one photo for every day and builds the book in the background. You say yes, or swap any photo you like. The preview is free.
- Scans the month, picks the moments worth keeping.The view, the kids, the plate, the street. Not the screenshots.
- You tap to add. Nothing goes in without you.Hold a photo to swap it for another from that day.
- A whole year in one evening, or a month at a time.Then the book is made, like every other PYM book.
Your year, page by page.
- 365 days, in order.Every day you kept gets its page. The open days stay open, honestly.
- Your words next to your photos.The line you wrote that morning, the place, the date.
- The year on the cover.The year in photo digits, a 365 mosaic, the colour of your year, a magazine cover, or your own photo.
- A size that fits the shelf.A pocket booklet, a zine, or a hardcover. One for every year.
It sticks. For years.
Not a January project that fades. Shelves of yearbooks, one for every year, in houses all over the world.
"There are now eleven PYM books full of good memories on my shelf."
"This is my eleventh year with PYM. A photo every day. I can't do without it."
"I love that a photobook comes into being during the year, and I hardly have to do anything for it."
Questions about the yearbook.
No. Start today and the book runs from today. If you want the earlier months in it too, tap Build my yearbook and Smart Fill suggests a photo for every day from your camera roll. Plenty of people start in October and hold a full year in December.
Yes. That is what Build my yearbook is for. Smart Fill looks through your camera roll, suggests about one photo per day and builds the book in the background. Hold any photo to swap it for another from that day. The preview is free; only the printed book costs money.
Take one photo today. Turn on the daily reminder if you want a nudge. That is the whole method: one real photo a day, anything that was true that day, and PYM keeps the pages in order. By December you have a 365 photo project you can hold.
Nothing happens. Add a photo later from your camera roll, or leave the day open. There are no streaks and nothing to catch up on. People have kept PYM going for eight to twelve years because a missed day is just a missed day.
One for every day you kept, up to 365. Each day gets its own place in the book, in order, with your line and the date next to it. You do not choose layouts or crop anything; the book is laid out for you.
No. The photo is the entry. A short line helps later, when you turn the pages and want to remember why that Tuesday mattered, but a yearbook with only photos is a complete yearbook.
The app, the daily photo and the preview are free. A printed yearbook starts from €27.95, depending on the format and the number of pages, and takes six working days to reach your door. You see the full price before you confirm.
Yes. Only you see your photos unless you invite someone. There are no public profiles and no ads, and your data is never sold, whether you pay or not. A printed book goes to the address you give.
How to make a yearbook from a year of photos
The longer answers: how people keep a 365 photo project going, what goes in a year in review book, and what it costs to print.
A 365 photo project you actually finish
Most 365 projects die in week three, and the reason is nearly always the same: the photo became a task. The projects that last share three habits. The photo is of something that was true that day, not something staged for it. The moment is small: the coffee, the desk, the view from the bus, the kitchen at nine in the evening. And there is no catching up, so a missed day stays a missed day and the project carries on the next morning.
PYM is built around those three habits. One reminder a day at a time you choose, or at a random moment if you want the app to pick the hour. One photo, a line if you like, and the page is done. Nothing to lay out, nothing to catch up on, and the book is made from whatever you kept.
365 photo challenge ideas that still feel like your life
Themes help some people and bore others. If a prompt gets you to lift the phone, use it; if it makes the photo feel like homework, drop it. Ideas that have worked for people who kept going for years:
- The same spot once a week: the window, the street corner, the chair. Twelve months of one place is a story on its own.
- What you ate, once a day. Unglamorous and, by December, surprisingly moving.
- The people who were in the room. Not posed, just there.
- One photo from the walk, whatever the weather. Weather is a year.
- The thing you fixed, made, or finished that day.
Whatever you choose, let the reminder decide the moment on the days you have nothing. A random hour is a surprisingly good editor.
What goes in a year in review photo book
A yearbook is not a highlight reel. The holidays and birthdays are in your camera roll already; the yearbook is where the ordinary Tuesdays live, and those are the pages people turn to years later. In PYM every day you kept gets its own place, in order, with the line you wrote and the date. Days without a photo stay open, honestly, instead of being padded.
The cover is where the year shows: the year in digits filled with your photos, a mosaic of every day, the colour of your year, a magazine cover, or one photo you choose. On This Day brings last year's page back while this year is being made, and the Monday recap shows the week you just lived.
Started in October? Build the year from your camera roll
You do not have to wait for January. Tap Build my yearbook and Smart Fill goes through your camera roll month by month, suggests about one photo per day and lays the book out in the background. It skips screenshots and receipts, keeps the view, the kids, the plate and the street, and lets you hold any photo to swap it for another from that day. The preview is free; only the printed book costs money.
Formats, prices and delivery
The yearbook comes as a pocket booklet, a zine, or a square hardcover, printed on photo paper and delivered to your door. Prices start from €27.95 depending on format and page count, and delivery takes about six working days. You see the full price in the app before you confirm, and the app, the daily photo and the preview stay free whether you order or not.
The yearbook as a gift
A printed yearbook is the gift people mention in reviews: the one for the grandparents in January, the one for the partner who never looks at the photos on the phone. Add the family to a shared album during the year and the book holds their photos too. Every child gets a year of their own, and the second copy is a few taps from the first.
Your year, already in a book.
Start with today's photo, or with the photos you already have.
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