Turn Your Next Trip Into a Real Book
Get the app before you go. Write a few lines each evening, drop in your photos, and come home to a printed travel book instead of 800 forgotten camera roll pictures.
Create My Book
1,500+ books
printed and shipped to travelers
“Didn’t expect to care this much about a physical book, but it’s the first thing I show people who come over now.”
Emily Carter
Travel blogger
“Iceland’s already a blur in my head, but flipping through this book brings it right back.”
Jack Scott
Solo adventurer
How it works
From your trip to your bookshelf in 4 steps
Step 1
Go on your trip
Any trip counts — a long weekend, a summer abroad, a hard week on a trail. Short or slow, it makes a book.
Step 2
Write it while it’s fresh
Five minutes in the app each evening. A few thoughts, a few photos — that’s all it takes to fill a book.
Step 3
Approve every page
See the whole book before it prints. Move photos, fix a line, change your mind. Nothing goes to the printer until you say so.
Step 4
Hold it in your hands
We print and ship it free, usually within three weeks. Then your trip lives on a shelf instead of a phone.
What’s included
Everything you need, for $19.99
One price covers the app, the printing and the shipping. Nothing else to buy later.
- Your cover, up to 100 pages
- A real A5 paperback with a cover you choose — room for the whole trip, not just the highlights.
- Photos where you want them
- Pick the layout for every page. No design skills needed — it looks good either way.
- Nobody reads your diary
- Write it messy and honest. Our AI quietly fixes the typos — no human ever sees a word of it.
- Too tired to write? Talk.
- Record a voice note at the end of the day and we’ll turn it into your pages.
Planning a trip right now?
This is the moment to get it. Book the flights, book the book — then you’ll have the app in your pocket from day one, while the details are still sharp. The best pages get written on the trip, not remembered a year later.
Create My BookOur books
Two ways to remember it
One reads like a diary. One lets the photos do the talking. Same paper, same 100 pages, same price — just pick how you like to remember.
Travel diary
$19.99Your words and your photos
- Text and full color photos
- Custom photo layouts
- A5 paperback (148 x 210 mm / 5.83 x 8.27 in)
- Up to 100 pages
Travel photo book
$19.99No writing required
- Only full color photos
- Custom photo layouts
- A5 paperback (148 x 210 mm / 5.83 x 8.27 in)
- Up to 100 pages
Reviews
1,500+ books, and counting
Went solo to Iceland for 5 days and just wrote a bit every night. Ended up with a book almost 100 pages long — wasn't expecting that at all.
Jack Scott
Put this together months after my Azores trip and it was way easier than I thought. The photo book turned out beautiful.
Emily Carter
Made a photo book packed with family pictures from Thailand. Krabi still feels like paradise every time I flip through it.
Magdalena Nowak
Rome was incredible — I wrote down everything I could each day and the book ended up almost 100 pages. Already planning the next trip just so I can make another one.
Liu Wei
Bikepacked 700km through the Badlands and wrote a few lines every evening, dead tired half the time. Still a great way to remember how brutal and beautiful that trip was.
Morten Nielsen
Hiked the Tour du Mont Blanc in 6 days this summer and kept a diary the whole way. This is exactly the book I built Kikōbook to make.
Aurimas Paliukaitis
Kiko founder
FAQ
Questions before you buy
No. Buy it now and make the book whenever you're ready — next month, or after a trip you haven't taken yet. There's no expiry and no deadline.
You review the entire book before anything is printed. Adjust the photo layouts, reread the text, change what you want. It only goes to the printer once you approve it.
A full-colour A5 paperback (148 x 210 mm / 5.83 x 8.27 in) with your own cover, up to 100 pages long.
Printing takes about 1 week and free shipping usually takes another 2, so roughly three weeks from the moment you approve your book.
Yes. As soon as your book ships we'll email you a tracking number.
Each book is printed once, just for you, so we can't accept returns — that's exactly why you get to approve every page before it prints.
Yes. Each purchase covers one book, so grab another whenever there's a new trip worth keeping.
Please do — send your ideas to hellokikobook@gmail.com. We read every one.
One book. One trip. Just $19.99
You already have the stories — that weekend trip, the summer abroad, the hike you still bring up at dinner. They’re sitting in a camera roll nobody opens. Give one of them a spine.
Free shipping · Approve every page before it prints
Why we called it Kikōbook
In Japanese, kikō (紀行) means a traveler’s journal. We build ours the way the name suggests — quiet Japanese-minimalist design, nothing on the page competing with your story. We made the first one for ourselves, after a trip we didn’t want to forget.