Riya & Ananya: 14 Years Since Class 3
For Ananya ("Annu"), from Riya, Mumbai. A fictional friendship.
Friendship books
Your best friend, or the whole gang, made into a book
Answer a few questions, add your photos and get your friendship books as a PDF.
Pick a story to start
Books we made for fictional families
The Chai Tapri Gang: Ten Years, One Tapri
For all six of them, from Fatima, who runs the group. Pune. A fictional gang.
How it works
- 1
Pick a book
- 2
Answer and add photos
- 3
Flip through it
- 4
Save the PDF
Print it when you love it
- Card book₹449
- Mini softcover₹699
- Classic hardcover₹1,799
- Layflat₹3,499
- Return-gift minis₹199 each
Price notes
- Launch prices including GST. Final price is confirmed before you pay.
- Extra pages: ₹99 per 4 pages on 8x8 books, ₹149 per 4 pages on larger books.
- Second copy of the same book: 30% off. Five or more copies: 35% off.
Who it is for
- The college bestie. Her birthday is a week away and you want something better than another mug. Use the photos already on your phone and give her every year of your friendship in one book.
- The bride tribe lead. The wedding date is fixed. Collect a memory and a line of advice from every bridesmaid, and give her one book from all of you.
- The friend left behind. The visa came through and the send-off is in two weeks. Make a small book light enough to pack, with goodbye notes from everyone staying back.
- The bestie in another time zone. You cannot be there for the birthday. Send the digital book today with a countdown that opens on the day, and have the printed copy sent to their address.
Styles and occasions
- **Kraft scrapbook**: kraft paper, washi tape, instant-photo frames and handwritten-style captions. Our default.
- **Bestie zine**: a glossy cover-story layout with a made-up masthead, like "The Gang Gazette".
- **Doodle sketchbook**: hand-drawn arrows, stars and notebook-margin doodles over your photos.
- **Filmy poster**: a retro hand-painted poster cover and chapter openers, with original titles written for your gang.
- **Chat bubbles**: conversation-led pages in plain, generic bubbles, made for group chat books.
- **Instant-photo minimal**: clean white pages, one big photo each and short captions. Suits bride tribe and moving-away books.
- Best friend's birthday, all year
- The main reason people make one. Start a week or two early for a printed copy, or send the digital book with a countdown that opens on the day.
- Wedding season, Nov to Feb
- A bride tribe book from her friends, for a pre-wedding evening or the night before. Every family's wedding is different, so the pages follow yours.
- Year end, December
- The gang's year in one book: the best nights, Gang Awards and next year's plans.
- A friend moving abroad, Jun to Sep and Dec to Jan
- A send-off book before the flight, packed light, with notes from everyone staying behind. Ideas in our gift for a friend moving abroad guide.
- Galentine's, 13 Feb
- A small zine for the girl gang, with an awards page and the girls' nights that made the year.
- End of college, Mar to May
- A farewell book for one best friend before you go different ways. For a book from the whole class, see class farewell books.
- Friendship Day, first Sunday of August
- A short book or zine for one friend or the gang, to go with the band. More on the day in Friendship Day in India.
- Friendship anniversaries
- Five, ten or twenty years since you met, with then and now photos side by side.
Privacy and care
You confirm you have the right to use the photos before every book, and we never use photos for ads. For illustrated books, up to three photos are used once to draw the character and then deleted.
Guides and ideas (6)
- How to make a scrapbook for your best friend: photos, words and printing
- How to organise a group gift from friends without spoiling the surprise
- Bride to be gift ideas from bridesmaids and the bride tribe
- Friendship Day 2027 in India: date, meaning and gift ideas for friends
- What to gift a friend moving abroad: ideas they can actually pack
- Open when letters for your best friend: 50 ideas with Hinglish openers
Questions parents ask
Is it really free?
Making the book and saving the PDF is free. Printing is optional and paid, and we confirm the price and delivery date by email before you pay.
What happens to my photos?
Photo books are laid out on your device and the photos never leave it. For illustrated books, up to three photos are used once to draw the character and then deleted. See privacy.
Will it look like a real photo book, or like a template?
It is a photo book of your own pictures, laid out page by page around your answers, so no two books read the same. We fix light and colour gently and never change faces. If a photo is too small to print sharply, we put it in a smaller spot or tell you before you order.
How do we split the cost among the gang?
The organiser pays, and we give you a ready-to-paste message for the group with each person's share and your UPI ID. The money goes straight to you; we never hold it. Extra copies cost less each, so everyone can have one. See prices below.
What if I don't like it?
You see the full book before anything is printed or paid for. Swap photos, regenerate a caption, make it shorter, gentler or Hindi, try another cover or remove a page. Edits stay free until you order print. If a printed book arrives with a print defect, we reprint it.