Is a Photobook the Same as a Coffee Table Book?

Kind of, but not really, think cousins, not twins. A coffee table book is the big, glossy, impressive-looking thing meant to sit out and casually impress guests, usually built around one theme like travel or art, and honestly half the time nobody even opens it past page three.

A photobook is more personal. It's just your own photos, designed and printed properly with the help of a good photo book maker, and it doesn't have to be huge or showy at all. It can be small, simple, and made purely so you and your family can enjoy it, no performance required for guests.

You can absolutely make a photobook in that big, coffee-table style if that's the vibe you're going for, like a wedding album meant to be shown off. But you can just as easily make one that lives in a drawer and gets pulled out on quiet Sunday afternoons instead.

So think of "coffee table book" as a look and a purpose, mostly about display, while "photobook" is the bigger idea underneath it, your memories, printed properly. Every coffee table book made from personal photos is a photobook. Not every photobook wants to be a coffee table book. Pixelgram lets you design that personal, story-driven kind of photobook, without needing a glue gun or a whole weekend to finish it.