There are a lot of them, they were built one at a time, and they do not all go together. So here is the plain version: what each one does, what it replaces, what it works with, and what it costs. If you only read one thing, read the map.
← Back to the siteMy Studio Books is the centre. Everything below it plugs in. Everything beside it stands alone.
The business end. If you are starting from nothing, start at the top of this list.
Your CRM. Clients, bookings, a public booking page with your own link, mini sessions with held slots, contracts your client signs online, invoices and card payments, galleries, questionnaires, workflows and a client portal. This is the one everything else hangs off.
For selling in person. A reveal slideshow, room view so your client sees the print on her own wall, then it builds the order and the invoice and gives you a lab-ready export. This is how you sell prints to someone sitting with you, or on a shared screen.
Phone albums for your clients. You make the album, she installs it on her home screen like an app. Each one stays online a year and you can renew it. Lovely as a gift, a package inclusion, or something you sell on its own.
Our culling and storage clean-up tool, and it runs on your own computer. It goes through every photo on your hard drives, camera cards and phone exports, keeps the best of each burst, and sets aside screenshots, receipts, exact copies and photos of nothing so you can clear the space. Then it makes print-ready folders by year. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is ever deleted. With the Studio licence you sell it to your own clients, under your name.
Nothing here touches your bookings. These are for what you post and what you hand a client.
Around twenty browser studios for making things — composites, snow globes, birth posters, ultrasound overlays, wall-art previews, announcements, mini books, client guides, carousels. No Photoshop, no subscription, nothing to install.
A video editor that runs in your browser on a computer, not a phone. Captions generated inside the tool, trimming, cutting dead space, b-roll, zoom punches, music, fonts and colour. Built because editing on a phone in busy season is not realistic.
For becoming a content creator or doing UGC, not just posting for your studio. Posts, reel covers, stories, TikToks, carousels and faceless batch mode, with captions, ideas and PDF products you can sell, written for you. Includes a free 7-day "Become a Content Creator" course.
This is the one people are most often surprised by, so it is worth being blunt: a website is not part of My Studio Books. My Studio Books is a CRM. Here are the two ways to get a site.
I build it for you. Hand-coded, fast, editorial, and yours to edit — no template. Your booking pages and forms are wired in while I am in there.
You build it yourself, with me teaching you how. You end up owning the thing and being able to change it at midnight without asking anyone.
Small, bolt-on, and each one sold separately.
A scripted Santa chat for children, on your own branded page, with your Santa photos, your session dates and booking links, a toy drive and a Santa tracker. Chatting to Santa first is how a nervous three-year-old stops being frightened of him on the day.
Your client registers, picks the session or package she wants, and shares a private page. Friends and family pay toward it or buy the whole thing. Installed on your own site and your own payment accounts.
Model and photographer matching, international, time-for-print. Models join free and their details stay private; you see anonymous matches and I introduce both sides by email myself.
A directory of photographers I have trained, mentored or certified, for parents looking for someone near them. You keep your own profile up to date yourself.
Same idea, built for other people and other businesses. Listed here so you know they exist — and so you know they are not something you are missing out on as a photographer.
Bills and payoff planning, personal and business expenses, and a grants area to find, track and write applications. For anyone, not just photographers.
Studio Social, rebuilt for estate agents — headshots, listings, business cards, flyers, postcards.
A design studio for children — posters, stickers, comics, colouring pages, books. Built after a kids camp where Canva made every child sign up for Pro.
Content studios for boutiques, makers and market sellers.
Each row is one of my programs, and what it lets you cancel. The honest version: some of these replace a subscription completely. Some only replace part of one, and I have said which.
| With our program | You can stop paying for | Honestly |
|---|---|---|
| Studio Social | Canva Pro | Fully, for the kind of thing photographers actually make. |
| Cut Studio | CapCut, Instagram Edits | Fully, if you edit on a computer. It does not run on a phone. |
| My Studio Sales | ProSelect, Fundy | Fully for in-person sales and ordering. |
| My Studio Books | 17hats, HoneyBook, Dubsado, Sprout, Táve | Fully for the CRM. It is not a website and not a print shop. |
| The Image System | Photo Mechanic, extra cloud storage | Fully for culling and clearing out old drives. You will still edit somewhere. |
| The Little Album | Sticky Albums | Fully, and your client installs it on her home screen the same way. |
A website is not included in My Studio Books. It is a CRM and I want to keep it true to what it is. Websites are a separate thing, built by me or by you.
My Studio Books does not have a shop where your client logs in and orders prints herself. My Studio Sales is how you sell prints to her — face to face or on a shared screen. Those are two different things and I do not want to blur them.
They are separate programs, not one bundle. The CRM is its own beast. The others were built later, one at a time, because people asked. Some connect to it. None of them are inside it.
There is no trial (the one exception: The Little Album lets you make one free sample album that stays up for 24 hours). Not because I am being difficult, but because people trial a thing, change their mind, and it becomes a mess for everyone.
Launch prices on the programs do not come back. Every program here started lower and has gone up, and it will keep going that way, because the people who got in early have to be honoured. There is no Black Friday price that will beat what is on this page today. A service like a website build is a different thing and can come back on offer — the programs do not.