Built by one busy mum for another
We all have thousands of photos sitting quietly on our phones, waiting to print them 'one day'.
Not printing them not because we don't care, it's just life is already so full.
smallstories helps you turn those everyday photos into something finished. It pulls out the dates, places, and baby age already tucked inside your images and turns them into simple, print-ready keepsakes.
No sorting everything first. No design tools. No extra project you never started.
Just your real moments, ready to print and keep.
If you need help, or just want to say hi, I’d love to hear from you:
hi@yoursmallstories.comI know that guilty feeling of having thousands of photos sitting on my phone — I felt it myself, going through my camera roll with a new baby and a busy life.
Like most people, I had so, so many photos I loved but never got around to doing anything with. I’d sit on the sofa at night scrolling through them, meaning to organise them properly one day.
But I'd always be too busy, or tired, or overwhelmed to start.
The part that slowed me down wasn't the photos—it was everything around them. The things that take them from being just a photo to something really special.
I kept wanting to recreate the feeling of our family albums growing up. The simple notes written on the back: a date, a place, an age. That small bit of context is what turns a photo into something you can hold onto.
It was too much work. So I built something to do that part for me.
smallstories takes the admin out, so you can get from camera roll to something printed and real, without it becoming a big project.
We read GPS data already stored in the photo, when it is available, and use that to look up a human-readable place name such as a city, beach, or landmark.
No. Your photos stay on your device at all times. Only GPS coordinates already stored in the image may be used temporarily to generate a human-readable location name.
We use established geocoding services such as OpenCage and OpenStreetMap's Nominatim to convert coordinates into place names.
We do not store your photos. GPS coordinates are only used temporarily to generate the location name for your print.
If a photo has no GPS data, we simply do not show a location for that image. You can still add one manually using the custom location field.
On some Android devices, privacy settings can prevent apps from accessing photo location data during upload, even when it is still saved in the image. Uploading from desktop or iPhone usually preserves that information. If it is missing, your photo still works normally and you can add the location yourself using the custom location field.
Yes. You can edit a single photo, then apply that look to selected photos or the whole batch.
You can work with frame styles, zoom and position, dates, locations, custom text, and ages where relevant.
Photos are downloaded in 6x4 inch (15x10 cm) format at high quality 300dpi, ready for albums, frames, and local print kiosks.
JPEG is usually the simplest format for quick printing and sharing. PNG also works if you want a lossless export.
No account needed. No tracking. Just your memories, protected.
