How Ansel Works
Pick your favorite moments straight from your device or connect to Google Photos. Whether it’s 25 photos or 400, Ansel’s ready to turn your uploads into something beautiful.
Ansel gets to work spotting smiles, identifying standout moments, and even knowing the difference between sunsets and sandwiches. Ansel curates your best shots, finds key faces and places, and arranges everything into a story that actually flows. Like magic... but smarter.
Want to swap the cover? Change the vibe? Tweak a layout? Just chat with Ansel. It’s like having your own personal designer, minus the hourly rate.
Take a scroll through your finished masterpiece. No flipping, no fuss. Preview every page, soak it all in, and when your heart says “yes,” make it yours.
Designed with Intelligence. Delivered with Heart.
Ansel doesn’t just design layouts, it captures your story.
Smart Layout Engine
Beautiful spreads for wide shots, emotionally charged sequences, and visually rich clusters of related images – crafted to bring flow, contrast, and rhythm to your story.
Interactive Chat Panel
Update your book by having a conversation with Ansel. Replace photos, change titles, or redesign pages without touching a template.
Easy Drag and Drop
Love the layout but want to swap a photo? Just drag and drop from the image panel directly to the page.
Responsive Layout Logic
Ansel adjusts layouts in real-time as you add or remove photos – keeping your pages balanced, clean, and visually stunning.
Intuitive Image Panel
See which images Ansel curated, preview them in full size, and hover to view how they’re described. Use the search bar to filter images by their metadata.
Visual Editing Tools
Fine-tune your photos directly on the page. Zoom, rotate, reposition, or reset any image to get the exact framing you want, without leaving your layout.
Seamless, Scrollable Preview
Enjoy a smooth, scrollable view of your entire book – no toggling between pages. Just one clean, continuous story.
Shuffle Mode
Generate a completely new version of your book. Ansel will re-curate your photos, remix the layout, and even change the title.
Version History
Explore past versions of your book and restore any point in your creative journey with a single click. Try new layouts and changes with confidence – nothing is ever lost.
Share Before You Buy
Share your book with a private, read-only link that’s perfect for previewing with friends and family before you order.
Cloud-Synced Projects
Your projects are saved securely in the cloud, so you can pick up where you left off on any device – or clone a design to start a new version. Your work is always safe, fast to load, and ready to scale with future updates.
Smart Layout Engine
Beautiful spreads for wide shots, emotionally charged sequences, and visually rich clusters of related images – crafted to bring flow, contrast, and rhythm to your story.
Interactive Chat Panel
Update your book by having a conversation with Ansel. Replace photos, change titles, or redesign pages without touching a template.
Easy Drag and Drop
Love the layout but want to swap a photo? Just drag and drop from the image panel directly to the page.
Responsive Layout Logic
Ansel adjusts layouts in real-time as you add or remove photos – keeping your pages balanced, clean, and visually stunning.
Intuitive Image Panel
See which images Ansel curated, preview them in full size, and hover to view how they’re described. Use the search bar to filter images by their metadata.
Visual Editing Tools
Fine-tune your photos directly on the page. Zoom, rotate, reposition, or reset any image to get the exact framing you want, without leaving your layout.
Seamless, Scrollable Preview
Enjoy a smooth, scrollable view of your entire book – no toggling between pages. Just one clean, continuous story.
Shuffle Mode
Generate a completely new version of your book. Ansel will re-curate your photos, remix the layout, and even change the title.
Version History
Explore past versions of your book and restore any point in your creative journey with a single click. Try new layouts and changes with confidence – nothing is ever lost.
Share Before You Buy
Share your book with a private, read-only link that’s perfect for previewing with friends and family before you order.
Cloud-Synced Projects
Your projects are saved securely in the cloud, so you can pick up where you left off on any device – or clone a design to start a new version. Your work is always safe, fast to load, and ready to scale with future updates.
Want a Tweak? Just Ask Ansel
Ansel is powered by conversational AI. That means you can type what you want, and Ansel will respond to make it happen. Change the layout. Update the title. Replace a photo. Apply a background color. It really is that easy.
Ask Ansel to:
- Change your book title or background color
- Remove specific photos
- Emphasize thematic elements of your book
- Add or remove pages
See Your Whole Book in a Single, Scrollable View
No more clicking back and forth between pages and spreads to preview your book. You can scroll through your entire book –start to finish – so you can see how your story is unfolding.
Track, Revisit, and Manage Your Projects
Every project you start with Ansel is saved automatically in your My Projects view. From here, you can open, edit, duplicate, or even delete your book.
My Projects View:
- View project title, creation date, and photo count
- Clone a project
- Delete a project