How to Make a Photo Book from Google Photos (2026 Guide)

Google Photos is where most of us keep years of trips, birthdays and first steps, backed up and almost never printed. The good news: making a photo book from Google Photos takes far less effort than it used to. There are three routes: Google's own Print store (only in some countries), an app that connects to your Google account, or downloading the photos and uploading them to any photo book service. This guide walks through all three, using what Google's official help pages say today.

Short answer: Google Photos sells photo books through its Print store in the US, Canada, the UK and all 27 EU countries, in two sizes (7-inch softcover and 9-inch hardcover) with 20 to 140 pages. If you live elsewhere, for example in Australia, Switzerland or Norway, or you want a larger or portrait format, use an app that connects through Google's official photo picker, such as Tangible, or download your photos and upload them to any service. Storage saver quality is good enough for a photo book; Express is not, if you plan large photos.

Can you print a photo book from Google Photos? Where it's available in 2026

Yes, but not everywhere. Google's help page Check photo book product and delivery info (checked on November 1, 2026) lists 30 countries:

• North America: United States and Canada.
• Europe: the United Kingdom and the 27 EU member states (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden).

Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Norway, Japan, Singapore, Brazil and Mexico are not on the list, so the Print store won't offer photo books there. What Google's help pages say about the product:

• Two formats: a 7-inch softcover and a 9-inch hardcover, both with 20 to 140 pages.
• At least 20 photos. If you select more than 140, some of them are combined into a collage on one page.
• Price: no public price list. You see the price and delivery cost once you start an order.
• Delivery in the continental US: economy 8-11 working days, standard 6-10, priority 5-7. In Canada: standard 10-14, priority 8-12. Printing and packing add 2-4 working days, and delivery times are not guaranteed.
• Country rules: in the US and Canada you can only ship within the country where you bought the book. In the EU, you must live in an EU country to buy from another EU country's store.
• Drafts: a draft you don't edit for 90 days is deleted automatically.

Availability changes, so the real test is your phone: open Google Photos, tap Create and look for Photo books, prints, & more. If it isn't there, the Print store isn't available in your country or region.

Option 1: Make the book in the Google Photos Print store

If you live in one of the 30 countries and either of Google's two sizes works for you, this is the most direct route. From Google's Create a photo book help page:

1. Open the Google Photos app and sign in.
2. At the top, tap Create > Photo books, prints, & more > Photo books > Make a photo book.
3. Select at least 20 photos and tap Done. The book is saved as a draft automatically.
4. Review the pages, pick the 7-inch softcover or the 9-inch hardcover, and tap Cart to check out.

Starting from an album you already made: tap Collections > Albums, open the album and tap Order photos > Photo book. On a computer, it works the same way at photos.google.com through the Print store button.

Option 2: Connect Google Photos to a photo book app (Tangible)

Since March 2025, Google only lets third-party apps read your photos through its official Google Photos Picker. That is good for privacy: you choose the photos on a Google screen, and the app only receives those, never the rest of your library. Here is how it works in the Tangible app for iPhone and Android:

1. Get the app at tangible.pics/app and start a new book.
2. On the photo upload screen, tap the Google tab, then Connect Google Photos.
3. Sign in with your Google account and allow access to pick photos.
4. Google's picker opens with your most recent photos. To get to a specific album, type its name in the search box: the picker doesn't show an album list, but it finds albums by title, as well as by date, place or keyword.
5. Tick the photos you want and tap Done.
6. Go back to the app and stay on the screen while the photos import. Videos are skipped automatically, since the book only holds photos.
7. The AI removes duplicates, sorts the photos by date and lays out the pages in minutes. Review the result in the editor, change anything you like, then choose the size and cover.

You can run the picker again with Pick more from Google Photos, and add photos from your camera roll too: everything merges into one timeline. Photos arrive at the resolution stored in your Google Photos account, with their capture date.

This route makes sense if Google doesn't sell photo books where you live, if you want a bigger, square or portrait format, or if you'd rather not lay out the book page by page.

Option 3: Download your Google Photos and upload them anywhere

This works with any printing service, including the Tangible website on a computer. There are two ways to download.

Download one album (the practical choice):

1. On a computer, go to photos.google.com and open the album.
2. Open the three-dot menu at the top right and choose Download all. Google packs the photos into a .zip file.
3. Unzip it (double-click on a Mac; on Windows, right-click > Extract All).

For just a few photos, Google's download help page covers the one-by-one route: open the photo, then More > Download.

Download your whole library with Google Takeout:

1. Go to takeout.google.com and sign in.
2. Click Deselect all, then tick only Google Photos. Inside Google Photos, the albums button lets you limit the export to the albums you want.
3. Click Next step, choose Send download link via email, keep the .zip format and click Create export.
4. When the email arrives, download and unzip the files. For large libraries, Google can take hours to prepare the export.

Takeout adds a .json file next to many photos with extra Google Photos details. You don't need to upload those; the image files are enough. Google's Takeout guide also confirms that exporting doesn't delete anything from your account.

Upload to the Tangible website: go to tangible.pics, start a book and open the unzipped folder, select all the photos and drag them into the window. JPG, PNG, WebP and HEIC are supported. From there the AI does the same work as in the app.

How to prepare your Google Photos album before printing

Ten minutes of prep in Google Photos saves a lot of fiddling later.

1. Make an album for the book. In the app, touch and hold a photo, select the rest, tap Add to album and give it a clear title ("Japan 2026", "Mia, year one"). A unique title makes the album easy to find in the picker's search.

2. Check your backup quality. In the app: profile picture > Google Photos settings > Backup > Photos & videos quality. According to Google's help page on backup quality:

To see how a specific photo was backed up, open it and swipe up: it's under Details. Changing the setting only affects new backups; photos already stored in Express don't get their resolution back.

3. Cut the clutter. Screenshots, memes, receipts and near-identical bursts. If you use Tangible, the AI weeds out duplicates and bursts for you, but screenshots and memes are best removed from the album first.

4. Watch the dates. Photos from your own camera keep their capture date. Photos that reached you through WhatsApp or other messaging apps usually carry the date you received them and a much lower resolution. If you include them, check in the preview that they land in the right place, and keep them small.

How many photos, and which size

Google asks for at least 20 photos. With Tangible, every book includes 30 pages and can grow to 200. As a rule of thumb:

• 30 pages: 40 to 70 photos. A weekend away, a birthday, a wedding seen through a guest's phone.
• 50-60 pages: 90 to 140 photos. A one- or two-week trip.
• 100+ pages: 200 photos and up. A full year, or a baby's first year.

Tangible formats and prices (30 pages included, shipping not included):

If you're unsure, the Compact 20×20 handles the usual Google Photos mix of portrait and landscape shots best. If most of your photos are portrait, the Classic 21×28 uses them better. For a coffee-table book, go for the Premium 28×28 hardcover. All are printed at 300 DPI on 170 gsm silk paper from certified sustainable sources.

Frequently asked questions

Do photos lose quality when you print them from Google Photos?

Not if they're stored in Original quality or Storage saver: even at 16 MP, a photo has plenty of resolution for an 11×11 in page at 300 DPI. You'll only notice a loss with photos stored in Express (3 MP), or with images that were compressed by a messaging app, if you print them large.

Do the photos keep their original dates?

Yes. When you import through Google's picker, each photo arrives with its capture date and the book is sorted by it. What doesn't come through is the GPS location: Google strips it from photos downloaded through the picker. If you download photos to a computer, your file browser may show the download date, but Google's help page notes that the original date is still stored inside the photo's metadata.

Can I make the photo book on a computer?

Yes, two ways: through the Print store at photos.google.com if you're in one of the 30 countries, or by downloading your photos (one album, or everything with Takeout) and uploading them to the Tangible website. Tangible's direct Google Photos import is in the iPhone and Android app.

How much does a Google Photos photo book cost?

Google doesn't publish its prices; you see them when you start an order in the app. With Tangible, a 30-page book costs from €14.99 (Mini) to €39.99 (Premium hardcover), plus shipping, and each extra page adds €0.45 to €0.95 depending on the format.

Where does Tangible ship?

To the European Union (with a few exceptions), Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, the United States, Canada, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Singapore. It does not ship to the United Kingdom. Books arrive in 7-10 calendar days with tracking, and if one arrives defective or damaged, it's reprinted for free or refunded.

Does Tangible see my whole Google Photos library?

No. It uses Google's official Photos picker, which only hands over the photos you tick. The rest of your library never leaves your account.

From Google Photos to paper in under 10 minutes

If Google sells photo books where you live and its two sizes suit you, the Print store is a convenient option. If you want another format, live outside those 30 countries, or don't feel like laying out pages, make an album in Google Photos, open it from the Tangible app with Google's picker and let the AI build the pages. The full process is in how it works, and the import details are on our Google Photos photo book page.