About

RGBloom is a small company that makes one thing: a square photo book, designed on your own device and posted to you. This is the why.

Why it exists

Most photo book tools want to do a lot - many sizes, accounts, add-ons, and a checkout that asks for more than the job needs. The photos usually get uploaded to someone's servers and kept there. We wanted something narrower and quieter: one good book, a fair fixed price, and a tool that forgets you the moment it can.

One book, made well

We make a single 21×21cm book on 150gsm silk paper, rather than a sprawling catalogue of sizes and finishes that mostly add decisions without adding much. We thought hard about that one book so you don't have to think about 15. When there's something genuinely worth adding to the range, we will.

Your photos stay with you

Your photos and your work-in-progress book live on your own device, not on our servers, while you make the book. Nothing about you or your photos is sent to us until you start ordering. From that point we use it to print your book - and may look at it to check it came out right - then delete your book, your photos and your details 30 days after you place it. We hold as little as we can, for as little time as we can. The Privacy page spells out exactly what that means.

No tricks

No sales, no countdown timers, no "only two left". The price is £10, including UK delivery, and it won't quietly drop next week to make you feel daft for not waiting. One book, one price.

Who's behind it

I'm Jake Gordon, head of computer science at Cambridge Maths School. Before I started teaching, I spent 15 years running AllYearbooks, a business adjacent to photo books, so I've been thinking about printed pages for a long time.

RGBloom started with a question. In February 2026, a student with an offer to study computer science asked me whether, with AI now writing so much of the code, it was still worth it. I couldn't honestly answer her, so I set out to find out by building something real, with AI writing the code and me deciding what it should do. That something became this company. The whole story, and my answer to her, is in Should I still study computer science?

RGBloom is run by one person, not a call centre. Contact us at hi at rgbloom dot com. Journalists will find the facts, photos and story angles on the Press page.