Chatbooks vs Kinberry
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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!
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Chatbooks | Kinberry |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (250K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 250K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #172 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 236 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chatbooks, Inc. | Zhuoran Li |
Customer experience
Chatbooks
Kinberry
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
Chatbooks
No in-app purchases
Kinberry
No in-app purchases
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