Gather the words of everyone who loves them.
Fondly is the simplest way to make an online memory book. Send one link to family and friends, collect their letters, photographs and small stories, and watch them become a beautiful book — one you can read anywhere, or print as a press-ready PDF and hold in your hands.
Three small steps to something they'll keep.
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Begin with a name
Tell us who the book is for and the occasion — her seventieth, his retirement, their wedding. Fondly shapes a quiet, beautiful invitation around them.
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Share one link
Send it to the people who know them best. Each person writes their memory and adds a photograph from any device — no app to install, no account to create.
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Watch the book grow
Every contribution you accept becomes a typeset page — nothing joins the book without your okay. Arrange the pages, choose a cover, then share the finished book — or print it and wrap it.
The best gifts aren't bought. They're remembered — out loud, by everyone, all at once.
Print it as a real book, straight from a PDF.
An online memory book is lovely; a printed one gets kept on the nightstand. When the pages are gathered, Fondly exports a press-ready PDF at a true 8 × 10 inch trim — vector type, embedded fonts, photographs at full resolution.
Upload it to a print-on-demand service like Blurb or Lulu for a hardcover, hand it to a local print shop, or print it at home and tie it with string. Nothing to convert, nothing to fix — it's ready the moment you export.
- Press-ready PDF export — 8 × 10 in pages, no margins to fight with
- Vector type & full-resolution photos — crisp at any size
- Cover page included — most print services take it as a separate upload
- Or stay online — the book lives at its link, ready to read aloud
For the moments that deserve more than a group text.
Everything people ask before they begin.
Do family and friends need an account to contribute?
No — nobody needs an account or an app to add their memory. You share a single link, and anyone who opens it can write their letter and add a photograph from any device. A phone at the kitchen table works fine.
What keeps spam or strangers out of the book?
The invitation link is private and unguessable, and you stay the editor: contributions come to you to accept, and only the ones you welcome become pages. You can remove any page at any time, and spam protection works quietly behind the scenes.
How do I print the memory book?
Open your book and choose Print. Fondly lays every page out at a true 8 × 10 inch trim size and exports a press-ready PDF — vector type, embedded fonts, photographs at full resolution. Upload it to a print service such as Blurb or Lulu for a hardcover, take it to a local print shop, or simply print it at home.
What occasions is a memory book good for?
Milestone birthdays, retirements, weddings, graduations, a colleague moving on, welcoming a baby, anniversaries — and remembering a life well lived. Any moment where the best gift is hearing, in their own words, what someone means to the people around them.
Is Fondly free?
Yes. Creating a book, inviting contributors and exporting the print-ready PDF are all free. If you want a bound hardcover, you pay only whatever print service you choose.
Why are the photographs black and white?
Every page is set in quiet black and white, like a printed volume — so a photo from 1974 and one from last week sit side by side and feel like they belong to the same story.