Sustain - AI Photo Album Maker
Photo & Video
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
Your photos, brought to life. Animate any photo in your album, play it back like a film, and let AI do the layout while you watch.
Sustain turns your camera roll into a beautiful photo album — automatically.
Stop scrolling past 10,000 photos you'll never look at. Sustain's AI picks your best shots, groups them by moment, lays out every spread, and writes thoughtful captions — so you end up with something worth keeping.
Then you can chat with it. "Make page 4 black and white." "Add a flourish to the cover." "Find more photos of the kids." It just does it.
When the album feels right, share it with family, order a hardcover keepsake, or save it as a PDF or slideshow video.
WHAT MAKES SUSTAIN DIFFERENT
• AI Curation — Drop in 25, 100 or 400 photos. Sustain analyses each one, finds the moments worth telling, and builds a full album in minutes.
• Edit by chatting — Don't fight a complicated editor. Tell the AI what you want and watch it happen, with previews you can apply or reject.
• Real book layout — Two-page spreads, just like a printed photo album. Browse cover-to-cover with the spread view.
• Built-in themes — Choose from beautiful, hand-tuned themes: Golden Romance, Blush Garden, Tuscan Sunset, and more.
• Slideshow with music — Bring your album to life with built-in soundtracks. Set the mood, hit play.
• Drag, drop, polish — When you want pixel-perfect control, the editor is right there. Move photos, swap layouts, tweak captions.
• Print a real hardcover — Order a high-quality, archival-grade printed book and have it shipped to your door.
• Save it forever — Export to PDF or generate a slideshow video. Your album, in any format you need.
• Better together — Invite family to comment, like, and add their own photos. Some memories deserve to be shared.
PERFECT FOR
• Wedding albums you'll actually finish
• Year-in-review books for the family
• Travel diaries from that big trip
• Baby's first year, kept forever
• Birthday and milestone keepsakes
PRIVACY-FIRST
Your photos stay yours. We never sell or share them. Optional Google Photos import — your library is read-only.
PRICING
Sustain is free to try, with credits to build your first album end-to-end. Subscribe for unlimited AI curation, more pages per album, and pro-grade exports.
Print orders are billed separately at production cost.
GET STARTED
Tap the + button. Pick your photos. Watch the magic happen.
Terms of Use: https://www.sustain-app.com/terms
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Sustain 2.0.1 — a fix for the export drawer.
• Tapping Export in an album opens the drawer again. On iOS 27 it opened empty, with no way to order a printed book, make a video or download a PDF.
• The questions the chat asks after a build no longer wait on a slow connection.
Thanks for using Sustain! We're shipping improvements regularly — we'd love your feedback.
2.0.1 1d ago
Sustain 2.0 — your exports in one place, and a chat that explains the album it built.
• Exports: a new tab gathers every video, PDF and print order across your albums, and Home shows the latest ones. Videos play in a full-screen player that turns with your phone, each with its own still.
• Export from the album: make a video or PDF of any album right from the viewer, and watch it render.
• The chat now shows what the build decided — which photos it left out and why — and lets you add any of them back with one tap.
• After a build, the chat asks a few short questions about the album and shapes it with your answers.
• The chat can show photos, choices and pages right in the conversation, so you pick instead of describing.
• The Photos panel sorts left-out photos by reason, and the photo picker groups by chapter. Open Photos from any spread's ••• menu.
• Who is this album about? Sustain spots the main person and asks you to confirm.
• The chat dock snaps to two sizes and drags from its whole top strip.
• Albums load faster — the library pages in as you scroll.
• Fixes: Enhance says clearly when you're out of credits; a refused search says so; a right-to-left book closes on the right; accounts signed up with Google or Apple can delete themselves.
Thanks for using Sustain! We're shipping improvements regularly — we'd love your feedback.
2.0.0 5d ago
Three fixes, on top of everything in 1.3:
• Creating an album from a Library search now fills it — it used to open empty.
• If the app closes while photos are being analyzed, reopening picks the run back up.
• Big uploads hold together better — a brief network drop no longer fails the batch.
Printing an album, fixed end to end — plus everything new in 1.3:
• Start a new album straight from Home — the same + button the Albums screen has.
• The chat keeps its place: suggestions no longer blank the conversation, a title you've applied says so, and a card you've acted on doesn't ask again.
• Ordering a printed album now works from start to finish: the payment step takes your card, with PayPal right beside it.
• Formats your album can't be bound as are clear up front — each one tells you how many pages to add, or that it's too long.
• Pick your shipping country from the list of places we ship to, and see real delivery speeds at checkout instead of a courier's code.
• Chat keeps the album name and the cover title in step, and text it adds now stays inside the page.
• "Auto" in the album wizard now says how big the album will be — and on a big upload, that keeping everything is what Auto does. Pick a size and the AI selects instead.
• The chat's offer to analyze new photos now counts only photos that have never been analyzed, and analyzing is all it does.
• Asking for two things at once works: "limit it to 6 pages and add a title to each page" now does both, the second one after the rebuild.
• Deleting an album stops its uploads instead of leaving them running against an album that's gone.
• The album wizard no longer shows free-plan limits to members on a paid plan.
• An Enhance you started now finishes even if you leave the app while your photos are still uploading.
• Animating a photo now suggests the motion for you — no prompt to write, just animate it or ask for another idea.
• While the AI works, the chat shows exactly where it is — uploading, analyzing, arranging — and your album stays on screen instead of a full-screen progress page.
• Digging by place now means the place — ask for New York and you won't get the next city over.
• Suggestions, dig results and your Library all open the same view: a grid to pick from, a tap to see a photo full-screen, and a swipe up for its details.
• Photo details: date, place, camera and size — plus the caption, tags and people for anything already in your Library.
• Photos that are both on your phone and in your Sustain Library now appear once, not twice.
• Fixed a rare crash when uploading many photos at once — and interrupted uploads now recover instead of failing.
• Picking more photos than your plan allows now says so up front — no more uploads that retry in the background and never finish.
• Album suggestions: trips and events spotted right on your phone, ready to become albums in one tap. Photos never leave your device until you choose.
• Dig up photos by asking — "our Paris trip in July". The new chat finds matching photos on your phone and in your Sustain Library, and turns them into an album.
Thanks for using Sustain! We're shipping improvements regularly — we'd love your feedback.
1.3.7 Sep 17
Printing an album, fixed end to end — plus everything new in 1.3:
• Start a new album straight from Home — the same + button the Albums screen has.
• The chat keeps its place: suggestions no longer blank the conversation, a title you've applied says so, and a card you've acted on doesn't ask again.
• Ordering a printed album now works from start to finish: the payment step takes your card, with PayPal right beside it.
• Formats your album can't be bound as are clear up front — each one tells you how many pages to add, or that it's too long.
• Pick your shipping country from the list of places we ship to, and see real delivery speeds at checkout instead of a courier's code.
• Chat keeps the album name and the cover title in step, and text it adds now stays inside the page.
• "Auto" in the album wizard now says how big the album will be — and on a big upload, that keeping everything is what Auto does. Pick a size and the AI selects instead.
• The chat's offer to analyze new photos now counts only photos that have never been analyzed, and analyzing is all it does.
• Asking for two things at once works: "limit it to 6 pages and add a title to each page" now does both, the second one after the rebuild.
• Deleting an album stops its uploads instead of leaving them running against an album that's gone.
• The album wizard no longer shows free-plan limits to members on a paid plan.
• An Enhance you started now finishes even if you leave the app while your photos are still uploading.
• Animating a photo now suggests the motion for you — no prompt to write, just animate it or ask for another idea.
• While the AI works, the chat shows exactly where it is — uploading, analyzing, arranging — and your album stays on screen instead of a full-screen progress page.
• Digging by place now means the place — ask for New York and you won't get the next city over.
• Suggestions, dig results and your Library all open the same view: a grid to pick from, a tap to see a photo full-screen, and a swipe up for its details.
• Photo details: date, place, camera and size — plus the caption, tags and people for anything already in your Library.
• Photos that are both on your phone and in your Sustain Library now appear once, not twice.
• Fixed a rare crash when uploading many photos at once — and interrupted uploads now recover instead of failing.
• Picking more photos than your plan allows now says so up front — no more uploads that retry in the background and never finish.
• Album suggestions: trips and events spotted right on your phone, ready to become albums in one tap. Photos never leave your device until you choose.
• Dig up photos by asking — "our Paris trip in July". The new chat finds matching photos on your phone and in your Sustain Library, and turns them into an album.
• New Library tab: browse every photo you've uploaded, view captions and details, and tag the people in them.
• Chapter titles: let the AI propose a title for each chapter of your album — approve the ones you like.
• More chat editing powers: photo frames, shape masks, and filters — just ask.
• Print perks: member discounts and coupon codes at checkout.
Thanks for using Sustain! We're shipping improvements regularly — we'd love your feedback.
1.3.4 Sep 8
Sharper photo digging and one way to review photos, plus everything new in 1.3:
• Digging by place now means the place — ask for New York and you won't get the next city over.
• Suggestions, dig results and your Library all open the same view: a grid to pick from, a tap to see a photo full-screen, and a swipe up for its details.
• Photo details: date, place, camera and size — plus the caption, tags and people for anything already in your Library.
• Photos that are both on your phone and in your Sustain Library now appear once, not twice.
• Fixed a rare crash when uploading many photos at once — and interrupted uploads now recover instead of failing.
• Picking more photos than your plan allows now says so up front — no more uploads that retry in the background and never finish.
• Album suggestions: trips and events spotted right on your phone, ready to become albums in one tap. Photos never leave your device until you choose.
• Dig up photos by asking — "our Paris trip in July". The new chat finds matching photos on your phone and in your Sustain Library, and turns them into an album.
• New Library tab: browse every photo you've uploaded, view captions and details, and tag the people in them.
• Chapter titles: let the AI propose a title for each chapter of your album — approve the ones you like.
• More chat editing powers: photo frames, shape masks, and filters — just ask.
• Print perks: member discounts and coupon codes at checkout.
Thanks for using Sustain! We're shipping improvements regularly — we'd love your feedback.
1.3.3 Aug 30
Upload stability fixes, plus everything new in 1.3:
• Fixed a rare crash when uploading many photos at once — and interrupted uploads now recover instead of failing.
• Album suggestions: trips and events spotted right on your phone, ready to become albums in one tap. Photos never leave your device until you choose.
• Dig up photos by asking — "our Paris trip in July". The new chat finds matching photos on your phone and in your Sustain Library, and turns them into an album.
• New Library tab: browse every photo you've uploaded, view captions and details, and tag the people in them.
• Chapter titles: let the AI propose a title for each chapter of your album — approve the ones you like.
• More chat editing powers: photo frames, shape masks, and filters — just ask.
• Print perks: member discounts and coupon codes at checkout.
Thanks for using Sustain! We're shipping improvements regularly — we'd love your feedback.
1.3.1 Aug 21
Your new Home tab is here — Sustain now finds the albums hiding in your camera roll:
• Album suggestions: trips and events spotted right on your phone, ready to become albums in one tap. Photos never leave your device until you choose.
• Dig up photos by asking — "our Paris trip in July". The new chat finds matching photos on your phone and in your Sustain Library, and turns them into an album.
• New Library tab: browse every photo you've uploaded, view captions and details, and tag the people in them.
• Chapter titles: let the AI propose a title for each chapter of your album — approve the ones you like.
• More chat editing powers: photo frames, shape masks, and filters — just ask.
• Print perks: member discounts and coupon codes at checkout.
Thanks for using Sustain! We're shipping improvements regularly — we'd love your feedback.
1.3.0 Aug 19
Albums that come alive.
ANIMATED PHOTOS
Bring your photos into motion right inside the editor — then watch your
whole album play back like a short film in the new Viewer play mode.
A FASTER, CALMER EDITOR
• Album-wide tools now live as tabs, so page and album edits no longer
compete for the same space
• Apply a background to every page at once
• Chat with the AI assistant without leaving your page
• Frosted, glassy toolbars that stay out of your photos' way
OPENS FASTER
Your album shelf now loads in a fraction of the time on a cold start.
SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE FROM THE FIRST LAUNCH
Sustain now starts in your device's language automatically, with full
translations in English, Hebrew, Spanish, Dutch, French, Italian and
German. Right-to-left albums now play back in the correct direction.
NEW PLANS
Three subscription tiers so you only pay for what you actually make.
FIXES & POLISH
• Uploads that stalled in the background now recover on their own
• Enhancement waits for every photo to finish uploading before it starts
• Signing in mid-album no longer loses your work
• Cover photos scale correctly on themed album cards
• Stale enhancement summaries are cleared when you re-run placement
Thank you for building your memories with us. Questions or ideas?
Reach us any time from Settings → Support.
1.2.0 Jul 22
This update makes Sustain faster and easier to edit:
• Your albums now load noticeably faster, especially on first open.
• Redesigned editor — album tools are organized into simple page tabs, with a quick page-chat peek so you can tweak any page on the fly.
• Apply a background to every page in a single tap.
• More reliable photo uploads while you keep working.
• A cleaner, more polished look with new glass-style bottom bars.
Thanks for using Sustain! We're shipping improvements regularly — we'd love your feedback.
1.1.2 Jun 24
• Add photos from chat — Ask the AI assistant to drop a photo onto a page with new "Add to page" cards.
• Add text with chat — The assistant can now place text bands and captions for you.
• More layouts — Additional auto-fit layouts tailored to your photos, now with translated names.
• Landscape print options — Order wide albums as hardcover, softcover, or layflat.
• Fixes — Resolved a crash when opening the editor, and fixed push notifications not registering on some devices.
1.1.1 Jun 22
Chat to build your album
Meet the new chat-first editor — just tell the AI what you want (titles, captions, layouts, decorations) and watch your album update live. Pull the chat drawer up or down whenever you like.
AI Enhance
One tap turns your photos into a finished album: best shots chosen, every page designed, captions written, and tasteful decorations added. It keeps working in the background with live progress, so you can keep browsing.
Name the people you love
Tag the people in your photos so the AI can write warmer, personal titles and captions — "Maya at the beach" instead of "A day out" — then regenerate all your album's text with their names in a single tap.
Beautiful new designs
Photo cards, frames, cover styles, and shape masks give your pages a more polished, magazine-style look.
Sign in your way
Sign in with Apple plus smoother Google sign-in — and your in-progress album is always kept when you sign in mid-flow.
Import from Google Photos
Connect Google Photos to add pictures, and switch or disconnect accounts anytime.
Now in more languages
Full support for English, Hebrew, Spanish, Dutch, French, Italian, and German.
Plus a refreshed welcome experience, QR photo uploads with background syncing, real layout previews on the format step, landscape viewing, and lots of polish and stability improvements.
1.1.0 Jun 18
What's New
- Switch or disconnect your Google Photos account anytime — and connecting is more reliable than ever.
- Sign in with Email, Google, or Apple without losing the album you're building.
- See real layout previews for each book shape as you create.
- Now fully available in 7 languages: English, Hebrew, Spanish, Dutch, French, Italian, and German.
- Smoother editing and lots of stability fixes.
1.0.2 Jun 12
A brand-new way to create albums
• Redesigned album-creation wizard — pick your photos and let AI build a polished album for you, step by step.
• AI Enhance keeps working in the background. Minimize it, keep browsing, and we'll notify you the moment your album is ready.
• Smarter background uploads with clearer progress, so you always know what's happening.
• Sharper photo rendering and crisper layouts on the canvas and in the viewer.
• Plenty of fixes and refinements for a smoother, more reliable experience.
1.0.1 Jun 9
Sustain 2.0.1 — a fix for the export drawer.
• Tapping Export in an album opens the drawer again. On iOS 27 it opened empty, with no way to order a printed book, make a video or download a PDF.
• The questions the chat asks after a build no longer wait on a slow connection.
Thanks for using Sustain! We're shipping improvements regularly — we'd love your feedback.
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