Albumbook

How to use Albumbook

For Albumbook 4.0 (iPhone, iPad, Android) · November 2026

Albumbook turns the photos on your phone into albums you flip through like a paper album. Albums are stored on your device, and no internet connection or account is needed.

1. The shelf
2. Making a new album
3. Editing an album
4. Reading an album
5. Sharing and exporting
6. Locking
7. Storage location and space
8. Coming from an older version
9. Support

1. The shelf

The app opens on the My Albums shelf. Tap a cover to open the album; long-press it for the menu.

• Rename · Duplicate · Delete
• Move to another shelf — you can have several shelves. Tap My Albums ▾ in the title to switch shelves or make one. A shelf that still holds an album cannot be deleted.
• Lock — protect an album with a password (and fingerprint or face). See Locking.
• Share — send the album file (.zip) to someone or to another device. See Sharing and exporting.
• Album info — pages, placed photos, tray photos and size. If an older version left cache files, Clean up removes them.

A yellow bookmark at the top right of a cover means the album remembers where you were; opening it goes to that page. The magnifier at the top right searches album names.

2. Making a new album

1. Tap + New album at the bottom right of the shelf and type a name.
2. The cover gets the album name as its title and today's date in small print at the bottom right. Both can be edited later.
3. Open the album and tap the pencil (Edit) at the top right to start editing.

3. Editing an album

The editor shows the page on top, the tray below it (where added photos collect), and the toolbar at the bottom (Layout Add photos Text Memo Page). Swipe sideways to change pages and tap Done at the top right to finish. Every change is saved immediately.

Putting photos in

1. Add photos → pick any number of photos from your gallery. They land in the tray.
2. Tap an empty slot once to select it (yellow border); a gear appears at its top right. The gear offers From photo library and From tray.
3. Or, with a slot selected, tap a tray photo to put it there. The other way round also works: tap a tray photo first, the app says "Tap the slot to put this photo in", and the next slot you tap receives it.
4. You can also long-press a tray photo and drag it onto a slot. Dropping onto an occupied slot sends the previous photo back to the tray.

Adjusting photos

• With a slot selected, drag with one finger to move the photo and pinch with two to resize it. Dragging an unselected slot sideways turns the page instead.
• The selected slot's gear menu: Replace photo · Fill slot/Fit to width · Reset position and zoom · rotate and mirror/flip · Move to tray · Duplicate to tray · Save this photo · Photo info · Delete photo
• To swap two photos, long-press one and drag it onto the other slot.
• Tap the selected slot again to deselect it.

Layouts

Layout chooses how the slots are arranged on the page; some layouts include a memo strip. If the new layout has fewer slots, the extra photos move to the tray (you are told first).

Text and memos

• Text adds a text box. Tap it once to select it; the gear opens an editor for the content, size, opacity, font, alignment, bold, italic, underline and color, and the page updates as you type. Drag a selected text box to move it.
• On layouts with a memo strip, Memo writes into the strip.

Pages

The Page menu: Add page at end · Insert after this page · Delete this page (its photos go to the tray) · Move earlier/Move later.

4. Reading an album

• Top buttons: View mode (page turn · slide · scroll; spread auto/single/two pages) · Slide · Save · All pages (a grid of every page) · Edit.
• Swipe down to close the album; swipe up to open the photo slideshow.
• In the slideshow swipe sideways to move between photos and pinch to zoom. Swiping down closes it and returns to the page of the photo you were looking at.
• Long-press a photo to save it, or the photos of the page, to your gallery. Tap a video slot to play it.

5. Sharing and exporting

• Long-press an album on the shelf and choose Share to make an album file (.zip). Opening it with Albumbook on the other side puts the album on that shelf. Use this to move albums between devices or to keep a backup.
• Save (export) while reading: Save pages to Photos · Share as PDF · Share pages as images · Extract original photos (the originals of the photos and videos in the album, to your gallery) · Reduce photo size (re-compresses the photos to shrink the album; cannot be undone).

6. Locking

Long-press an album on the shelf, choose Lock and set a password. A locked album asks for the password when opened, and on devices that support it you can also unlock with fingerprint or face. The password is stored only on the device and cannot be recovered if forgotten.

7. Storage location and space

• Albums live in Albumbook's own folder on the device. More → Album storage location shows the exact path and how much space is in use and free.
• Deleting the app deletes the albums in that folder. Keep a copy with Share (.zip) or Save first.
• When the device runs low on space (under 100 MB free) no more photos can be added; the app tells you how many it managed to add. Export albums or delete photos to free up space.

8. Coming from an older version

• Albums that Albumbook 3.x left in /sdcard/Albumbook on Android 10 or older are imported to the shelf automatically on the first launch after the update, with a notice. The import is a copy; the originals stay.
• After importing, the app asks whether to delete the originals. If you chose "Later", More → Delete old-version originals does it any time. While albums remain to be imported, Import albums from old version is shown instead.
• Share files from older versions (.albumbook, .zip) still open.

9. Support

Tap More → Support or write to support@albumbook.com. Including the app version and your device model helps us answer quickly.