Hickory Books

Custom hardcovers for

Describe what you want to remember. We comb your library, sort by confidence, and mail the hardcover in 14 days.

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The promise

A book that outlives
the phone it came from.

The best photo of your bachelorette weekend — or your dad's 70th, or that Tuesday that somehow mattered — lives on a server you'll never re-open. Hickory finds it, prints it, and puts it on your shelf.

The magic

Tell us what to look for.
We do the rest.

No other photo book app reads your description and assembles the book. We do — and we show our work, so you stay in charge.

01

Describe it.

Plain English, in a chat box.

Sarah's bachelorette weekend in Nashville, June 12–14.

📸 Face📅 Date📍 Place✨ Describe

Or pick a face: "this is Mom — find every photo of her."

02

We sort by confidence.

Two buckets. Reasoning shown for each photo.

Definitely· 47
Maybe· 28

Hover any photo: "Sarah, June 12 morning, downtown Nashville."

03

You shape the book.

Drag between buckets. Add your own. Tell us how to format.

Make it editorial — sparse, magazine feel.

EditorialScrapbookChronologicalGroup by night

A preview lands in your browser. Approve, and it ships in 14 days.

Every other photo book makes you arrange it yourself, or auto-generates from a folder you already curated. Hickory is the only one that reads what you mean and assembles the book around it — while letting you override anything in one drag.

The book

Heirloom-grade.
By design.

Size

8.5 × 11 inches

Pages

100, full-bleed color

Cover

Linen-wrapped hardcover

Paper

Archival, decades-stable

Binding

Smyth-sewn, lay-flat ready

Print

By Lulu Direct — 1.3M books / year

What people make books of

Any occasion.
Or none at all.

Birthdays, bachelorettes, weddings, road trips, championship seasons, a pet's whole life, a friend group's "summer we don't want to forget." One subscription, every milestone, every shelf.

The bachelorette

Nashville, on no sleep

The 80th

Everyone who showed up

The dog

A whole life, on the shelf

The year

01 of 12, like clockwork

Pricing

$29 for a book.
Or $29 a month for everything.

Same price either way. The membership adds a hardcover every month, saved face library, unlimited re-curations, and a lifetime digital archive of every book you've ever made.

Twenty years from now,
the people in it will fight over it.

Start your first book — $29