Groovebook: Book of Prints

The price is right for the quality and it’s an excellent concept but the ap needs a lot work. I tried gifting my first book to two different people. The ap repeatedly crashed in the process and I was never able to send to them. I was charged for $12 of product of which I have only received $4 worth. To my knowledge, you can’t track your shipments nor can you see to whom or where they are going. You should be able to track and see where they’re headed at the very least. The one book I received had some pictures cut short. For the price this is fine. But perhaps add a feature that will alert you when you’re requesting a printout of a pic that’s going to be cropped. You can’t view previous books in the ap. That means you have to look back through the pictures on your device as you are adding new ones to see which ones have already been printed or look through your printed books. This is not efficient. It would be a nice added feature to be able to share your subscription with someone else. For example, it would be awesome if I could share with my husband so he can add pics from his device as well. Overall it’s cool and I’ll continue to subscribe but I hope things improve.

I love these little books! I have gotten about many so far and given several as gifts to remember trips or events. I am happy with the service and the quality and it takes all those pics off my phone. The quality of the pics depends on the quality of your phone and how you take pics. It's a great little product for only $2.99 per 100 pics. I thought I put in a review a little while back but I still love it and think it's a great thing! I have printed them up for different events and given them to other people. That gives them a mini book of memories like baby or bridal showers, special company coming into town or special trips I've made with friends! It definitely is easy to come up with 100 pics from special occasions! You can order duplicates and have the books you like and cherish! I still love this app and use it for extra books some months too. I have an issue now with the loading of pictures. It opens and says to load 100 and then goes to the very first book I ever ordered, and that’s over two years ago. I would love it if it opened to the present available book instead of swiping through dozens and dozens of books to find the new one. That’s my only complaint otherwise I love your app.

The quality has been great some months.. good some months... and ok some months. I like the convenience of just having my photos printed so i can tuck them away to enjoy later and get them off my phone. My major issue I've been having is it won't print past a certain number and I have to go through and figure out exactly which photo it isn't uploading which can be VERY tedious and annoying. I've noticed that it's iffy on which photos it'll print from my shared albums (even if I'm the one who uploaded it). I wish I could easily upload pictures from my computer onto groovebook and it not be exclusive to phone photos. I love the concept but don't enjoy the sketchy upload. I’d also like to add that I dislike how it can’t upload in the background. I had an album that didn’t get completed and I wasn’t aware of it until the window had closed. I’m pretty close to canceling my subscription bc the months that I’ve gotten charged but not uploaded a book.. it would even out to just purchasing photos when I feel the need.

OK, this does have nice color to it and your pictures will look lovely. However if you are using this application for anything else other than fcopying a recipe ... and you are putting down something you want all of it on here, you are in trouble. You do not get an entire 4 x 6 space to put your writing or anything else. It is always cropped at the bottom in the left, and on the bottom, by a small amount that can affect what you are printing. What is sad about that is when you crop it on their screen, it all fits in there nicely. Or, sometimes a title or a bottom subtitle will be removed, or are partially removed because of space, when you have it showing entirely on your cropping page. As a writer and editor I do not like this because I need the space. I also wish they would go back to the regular 4 x 6 format instead of leaving out this 1/8 inch I believe we are missing. As I said this is fine for pictures if you don’t have to have everybody in it, Because sometimes you only get half of one person, but it is not for anybody who gets more technical than that. If this changes and I feel that things are better, I will let you know. I have written several columns in newspapers for 36 years in the Midwest area so I do know a little bit about what I’m doing. I’m not condemning this, it’s a very good value, as a very good thing for what it does print pictures. But if you want to use it for other applications, and those are there, think twice.

I've received two Groovebooks now and I think they are great- especially for $2.99. The app is very easy to use, uploading pictures is a snap and I receive my Groovebook in about two weeks. The printouts are as good as the pictures I send in- some are clearer than others. I set a reminder to make sure that I get my photos uploaded by the date they give me. The quality of the pictures have declined- fuzzy and framed poorly. I know that this is inexpensive and probably should expect lower quality paper but it is getting to be a real problem. If the quality doesn't start improving I will need to cancel my long term subscription and get another alternative. Makes me sad. I was very pleasantly surprised this month when my latest book came. The picture quality was much improved. There was quite a chemical smell to the pictures but it dissipated When I created my new book, I liked the new format and the pictures uploaded much faster.