Comparison · MySocialBook alternative
Looking for a MySocialBook alternative?
everkept's book: coming soon — waitlist openWhat MySocialBook gets right
An honest comparison starts here. MySocialBook has been printing books from Facebook and Instagram for over a decade, has shipped more than 700,000 of them, and holds a strong Trustpilot rating. It's simple: connect your account, pick a date range, get a physical book. For a lot of people — especially anyone who wants a year of posts on the coffee table without touching a ZIP file — that's exactly the job, done.
If that's what you want, and you want it now, use them. everkept's book doesn't exist yet, and we'd rather say that plainly than pretend otherwise.
Where the reviews get frustrated
Read through the critical reviews, though, and the same four themes keep coming up:
- Pages that jump around. Books generated from your feed follow post order, not life order — so a book can shuffle between events and years in ways that feel random on paper.
- Duplicate photos. The same photo posted, re-shared, or tagged shows up more than once, and it costs you pages you paid for. We ordered a book ourselves in July 2026 to check: a six-month volume held roughly 25 unique photos repeated across its pages.
- Screenshots and memes print too. Whatever was posted goes in the book — our test copy printed a screenshot of a webpage as a full photo, twice. Recent-years feeds are full of re-shared memes and cards, and nothing filters them out.
- Dark or fuzzy prints. Printing from compressed social-media copies means some photos come out darker and softer than they looked on screen.
- One slice, not your archive. A book covers a date range of posts. Stories — which Instagram archives automatically and can outnumber your posts — plus profile-photo history and every video never enter the product, because the account connection it's built on can't see them.
Prices scale with page count — softcovers start around $33, and covering a whole archive means buying many volumes: printing one full Facebook history was priced at over $500 across seven books in their own checkout (July 2026). At per-page pricing, repeated photos and printed screenshots aren't just cosmetic — they're pages you paid for. And the complaints all trace to one root cause: the layout is generated from a raw feed, with nobody — human or machine — curating the photos first.
The everkept approach: curate first, print second
everkept already solves the organizing problem today. Upload your Facebook or Instagram export and it becomes one private gallery — every photo and video, organized by year and grouped by the people in them, with duplicates, memes, and screenshots filtered out and original dates recovered from your archive's data. That gallery is a one-time $29.99, no subscription.
The book we're developing will start from that curated gallery, not from your feed. That's the whole difference — and it's aimed squarely at those four complaints:
| MySocialBook (today) | everkept (gallery today · book coming soon) | |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | Order now — established, 700k+ books shipped | Gallery: available now. Book: coming soon — waitlist open |
| Layout | Generated from your post feed | Laid out from a curated gallery, by person and year |
| Duplicates & junk | Printed as posted | Removed before layout — one copy of each photo, no memes or screenshots |
| Print source | Social-media copies of your photos | The highest-quality copy in your archive |
| Coverage | The date range you pick | Book drawn from your whole archive; the gallery keeps everything, videos included |
| What you keep | The printed book | The book and a permanent private gallery of your complete archive |
| Price | From ~$33; archive-scale hardcovers ~$100+ with shipping | Gallery $29.99 one-time · book expected around $89 (not final) |
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The everkept gallery — this exists today, and it's what the book will be laid out from. The book itself is not available yet.
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Whichever book you choose, get your archive out first
A book — anyone's book — is only as good as the photos behind it. Requesting your complete archive from Facebook takes a few clicks and a day or two of waiting, and it's worth doing regardless of what you print: here's the click-by-click export guide with screenshots. Upload it to everkept and your gallery — organized by year and person — is ready today, whether or not you ever order a book.
Common questions
Is there an alternative to MySocialBook?
Several services print photo books from social media, and MySocialBook itself is a legitimate, established option. everkept is developing a different kind of alternative: the archive is curated first — organized by person and year, duplicates and junk removed — and the book is laid out from that curated gallery. The everkept book is not available yet (waitlist above); the gallery it's built on exists today.
Is MySocialBook bad?
No. It has printed over 700,000 books and holds a strong Trustpilot rating — many customers are happy. The recurring complaints in reviews are about layout order, duplicate photos, print darkness or sharpness, and screenshots and memes printing as photos, and cost — prices scale with page count, and one full Facebook history was priced at over $500 across seven volumes (July 2026). Whether those matter depends on what you want from the book.
Can I buy an everkept photo book today?
Not yet — it's coming soon and pricing isn't final (expected around $89). Join the waitlist to be emailed at launch. The everkept gallery exists today: one-time $29.99 for your whole archive, organized.
What would make everkept's book different?
Curation before printing: your whole archive organized by person and year, duplicates and junk removed, dates recovered — then the book is laid out from that clean gallery. And your videos and everything that can't go on paper stay browsable in the gallery alongside the printed stills.
What if I want a printed book right now?
Then MySocialBook or another established photo-book service is the honest recommendation — ours isn't available yet. If you can wait, join the waitlist; either way, export your archive now — that part is worth doing today.
Don't wait on the book to save the photos
Your archive, organized by year and by the people in it — the everkept gallery exists today. Upload your export and see what we found.
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