Comparison

Chatbooks vs Kinberry

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Chatbooks

Effortlessly transform your phone's photos into beautiful, personalized photo books and prints. Create custom albums with ease, choosing from various sizes and cover options, and have them delivered directly to your door with free shipping.

Highlights
  • Create personalized photo books
  • Order photo prints
  • Subscription photo book service
  • Customizable book sizes and covers
  • Add captions and collages
  • Free standard shipping
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Your memories deserve to be enjoyed, not trapped on your phone! The Chatbooks app makes it easy (like 10-minutes-or-less easy!) to turn them into personalized photo books and photo prints, delivered right to your door with free standard shipping. Our bestselling Monthbooks photo book subscription makes it easier than ever to turn your everyday moments into a stunning photo book collection. Simply choose your delivery schedule, cover style, and photo book size to get started. The best part? It only takes 5 minutes to print each 30-60 page photo book. Add photos right from your phone camera roll in the Chatbooks app, edit, and send to print in just a few taps. Cancel anytime and always enjoy free shipping on any Chatbooks photo book subscription. Need to print life’s big milestones, or give a meaningful personalized gift? Our Classic Photo Books are the perfect custom photo books. Simply select your size (6x6", 8x8", or 10x10"), cover type (softcover or hardcover), and chic cover color, or browse hundreds of designer covers. Add up to 366 pages of memories by uploading photos from your phone, then edit your book by easily adding collages, captions, and more. We’ve got you covered with our Love Chatbooks Guarantee and Toddler Insurance—so whether it’s a printing issue or a juice spill, we’ll make it right. You make the memories. We’ll help you print them. Millions of Chatbookers use the Chatbooks app to print their photos—join them today!

About

Kinberry

Organize your photos by location and date to relive memories. Create shared albums with friends and family, and see your life story visualized on a map. All content is private by default.

Highlights
  • Organize photos by location and date
  • Visualize life events on a map
  • Create private shared albums
  • Collaborate on albums with others
  • Import entire camera roll
  • Track children's ages in moments
Features
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Every moment happened somewhere. Kinberry keeps the place with the photos, so an afternoon at the lake stays somewhere you can point at, not a date buried in a camera roll. Keep a moment whole A moment is a place, a day, a few photos, and a line about what happened. Add it in under a minute — from photos you already took, with the place and the date filled in for you. See your life as a map Your moments become pins. Zoom out and a year is a shape: the park you walked to every week, the beach you drove three hours for, the corner table at the restaurant you keep going back to. Tap a place to see everything that happened there. Share the ones worth sharing Make an album and invite the people who were there — the other parent, the grandparents, the friends who came along. They see the moments, the photos, and the places, and they can add their own photos from the same afternoon. Everyone ends up with the day from more than one angle. Sharing that you can take back Nothing is public. Nothing is posted. A link works for the people you send it to and stops when you say so — every link you've made is on one screen, with a switch to turn it off. There is no feed, no algorithm, and no one browsing your family. Bring the whole camera roll Import by month and Kinberry groups photos into the outings they came from, using the time and place already in them. Years of photos become a map in an evening. Everyone at their own age If the moment includes children, Kinberry shows how old they were that day — "2y 4m" — on every moment, so you never have to count backwards. Yours to keep Private by default. Export every original photo and a file describing each moment whenever you want. Delete your account, and everything goes with it.

Screenshots

Chatbooks4 screens
Kinberry4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Kinberry at free against Chatbooks's free with in-app purchases. Chatbooks's advantage is ratings volume (250K vs 1) and chart position (#172 vs unranked). On price, rating, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Kinberry holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chatbooks has 250K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chatbooks ships an update every 9 days, Kinberry every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Chatbooks versus Kinberry: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChatbooksKinberry
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (250K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings250K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#172 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size236 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChatbooks, Inc.Zhuoran Li

Customer experience

Chatbooks

All ratings249,562 ratings
Positive96.8%
Neutral1.9%
Negative1.3%
Written reviews794 reviews
Positive64.5%
Neutral9.2%
Negative26.3%

Kinberry

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Chatbooks

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Photos not uploading correctly
  • Locked books being edited unexpectedly
  • Inconsistent app behavior across devices
  • Incorrect shipping information

Requested features

4 requests
  • More layout and customization options
  • Ability to select photos from different albums
  • Option to change book title/cover
  • Improved in-app navigation

Kinberry

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Chatbooks

No in-app purchases

None

Kinberry

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chatbooks free?
Chatbooks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kinberry free?
Kinberry is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Chatbooks or Kinberry?
Kinberry is rated higher. Chatbooks averages 4.8 out of 5 from 250K ratings, while Kinberry averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Chatbooks or Kinberry have ads?
Neither Chatbooks nor Kinberry shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chatbooks or Kinberry?
Chatbooks ships an update every 9 days, and Kinberry every 5 days. Most recently, Chatbooks was updated on November 4, 2026 and Kinberry on October 26, 2026.

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