Create a family photo book from your social media

Your family's story is already on Facebook. The hospital photo when your first kid was born. The backyard birthday parties with crooked homemade cakes. The Christmas morning chaos. The first day of school, every single year, standing in front of the same door getting taller. It's all there, posted one moment at a time, stretching back years.

My Social Book takes those posts and turns them into a printed family photo book. Your photos, your captions, your dates — organized chronologically like a family yearbook. No uploading files. No dragging photos into templates for hours. The book builds itself in under three minutes.

Start your free preview and see how many pages your family book is.

How to create your family photo book

Step 1: Connect Facebook, Instagram, or Dropbox. Go to the book creation page and link your account. My Social Book reads your posts and pulls in your photos, captions, dates, likes, and locations. It doesn't post or change anything on your account — it just reads what's already there.

Step 2: Preview your auto-generated book. Within seconds, you'll see a complete book. Every page laid out, every photo in place. It's organized by date, so the book reads like a diary — from the earliest family posts to the most recent. You can scroll through every page before you spend a cent.

Step 3: Customize and order. Remove any posts that don't belong. Keep the family stuff, take out the work posts or the random memes. Pick your cover photo — the editor lets you choose the image and layout for the cover. Then select your format: hardcover glossy (most popular), softcover glossy (best price), or hardcover matte (premium look). Order, and it ships to you.

Why family photos deserve a real book

You have thousands of family photos on your phone and on social media. You almost never look at them. That's the reality for most families — the photos exist, but they're buried. A printed book changes the behavior completely. It sits on the coffee table. Visitors pick it up. Kids flip through it on rainy afternoons. Grandparents bring it out when company comes over. The photos get seen again and again, which is the whole point of taking them in the first place.

Kids grow up fast and the posts prove it. There's something about seeing five years of family life in sequence, on paper, that a phone screen can't replicate. The four-year-old in the Halloween costume on page 30 is the nine-year-old at the science fair on page 180. You know this intellectually, but seeing it chronologically in a book hits differently. Parents who make annual family photo books consistently say it's one of the best things they do each year. See how many pages your family's year is.

Social media captions capture what you were actually feeling. The photo shows the moment, but the caption you wrote at 11pm that night — "She lost her first tooth at dinner and cried because the tooth fairy might not know we're at grandma's house" — that's the real story. My Social Book preserves those captions alongside the photos. In ten years, you won't remember the small details. Your book will.

A family photo book is the gift grandparents ask for. If you're ever stuck on what to give parents or in-laws, a printed book of their grandkids' year is the answer every single time. It's the gift that stays on the nightstand. They'll show it to everyone who visits. You can make a new one each year and it becomes a family tradition.

What's included in your family photo book

• All your family photos — pulled automatically from Facebook, Instagram, or Dropbox, printed at full quality with professional layout design.
• Captions — the words you wrote when you posted. The funny stories, the proud-parent moments, the descriptions of what was happening.
• Dates — every post shows when it happened, so your book reads like a dated family journal.
• Likes — see which family moments got the biggest reaction from your friends and family.
• Locations — vacation spots, hospitals, schools, grandma's house. If you tagged it, it's in the book.
• 25 to 450 pages — one year might be 50 pages. Ten years could be 400. The book scales to your family's story.
• Hardcover or softcover — softcover glossy, hardcover glossy, or hardcover matte. Three formats, all 21cm x 25cm.
• Chronological layout — earliest posts first, most recent last. Like a yearbook for your family.

How My Social Book compares to traditional photo book editors

Feature	Meine Social Book	Traditional Photo Book Editors
Creation time	Under 3 minutes	2-10 hours of manual design work
Photo source	Automatic from Facebook, Instagram, Dropbox	Manual upload from your device
Preserves social context	Yes: dates, captions, likes, locations	No: photos only
Book length	25 to 450 pages	Typically capped at 100-150 pages
Chronological organization	Automatic, like a yearbook	Manual: you arrange every page
Track record	12 years, 700,000+ books, Trustpilot 4.7	Varies widely by service

For a full breakdown of what to look for in a photo book service, check out our guide on selecting the right photo book maker.

Frequently asked questions

Can I make a separate book for each year?

Yes, and a lot of families do exactly that. When you preview your book, you can set a specific date range — January to December of a given year, for example. Then create a new book for the next year. Over time, you build a shelf of annual family albums, each one a complete record of that year's life. It becomes a tradition.

Do the dates organize automatically?

They do. My Social Book arranges everything chronologically based on when you posted it. The earliest post in your date range appears first, and the most recent appears last. You don't have to sort or arrange anything. The book reads like a timeline of your family's year.

How many photos can I include?

There's no hard limit on photos. Books go up to 450 pages, and each page can have multiple photos depending on the layout. If you've got five years of active Facebook posting, you could easily fill a 300-page book. If you want something more focused, narrow the date range and remove posts during the preview.

Can multiple family members contribute photos?

Not directly from multiple Facebook or Instagram accounts in one book. But there's a workaround that works well: have family members upload their photos to a shared Dropbox folder, then use that Dropbox as the source for the book. That way you get mom's photos, dad's photos, and even grandma's photos all in one volume. You can also combine one social media account with a Dropbox folder in the same book.

What if I want to include posts from both Facebook and Instagram?

You can combine both. Connect your Facebook account and your Instagram account (via Professional Account) and the book will include posts from both sources, all organized by date. Facebook posts tend to have longer captions and more context; Instagram posts bring the strongest photography. Together, they make a richer book.

Your family album is already on Facebook

The photos are taken. The captions are written. The dates, the locations, the likes — it's all recorded. The only thing your family's story is missing is a format that lasts longer than a social media feed.

A printed family photo book sits on a shelf for decades. It gets passed around at holidays. It's the thing your kids pick up when they want to remember what being little felt like. And it takes less than three minutes to create.

Start your family photo book now — your preview is free and ready in seconds.