The best office & stationery apps

Chatbooks

Chatbooks turns the photos already on your phone into printed photo books and prints, delivered to the door. Its best-known product is the Monthbooks subscription, which assembles a 30-60 page book on a schedule you choose, with cover style and size set once and then left to run. The company is built around the idea that memories shouldn't stay trapped in a camera roll, and keeps the process deliberately short — most books take a few minutes to assemble and send to print — with free standard shipping and no commitment to keep a subscription running.

Staples

Staples is a major American office products retailer selling stationery, paper, ink and toner, technology, furniture, and school supplies through its stores and online. The business serves households, students, and small businesses, and pairs its retail range with print and copy services and a business delivery operation.

TouchNote

TouchNote turns photos on your phone into real, personalised greeting cards, postcards, and gifts, printed and posted to the recipient anywhere in the world. The company handles printing, postage, and delivery, and prints locally in the destination country so a card sent from the US to the UK arrives in days rather than weeks. More than a million cards are sent through the service each year, spanning birthdays, anniversaries, thank-yous, and holidays, alongside photo gifts such as prints and mugs.

Funky Pigeon

Funky Pigeon is a British personalised card and gift business, printing customised greeting cards and posting them directly to the recipient, alongside personalised mugs, prints, and gifts. Owned by WHSmith, the brand built its name on irreverent, humorous designs and on rescuing people who have left a birthday to the last minute.

Office Depot

Office Depot sells office supplies, technology, furniture, and print services through a US store network and online, trading under both the Office Depot and OfficeMax banners. The company serves small businesses, home offices, and students, combining everyday stationery and paper with computers and peripherals, business printing and copying, and workspace furniture, and runs a separate business-delivery operation for companies ordering in volume.

thortful

thortful is a British greeting card marketplace selling original designs by independent creatives from around the world, with around 70% of its range unavailable anywhere else. Cards are personalised, printed, and posted directly to the recipient, and the creators behind each design earn a commission on every sale.

Simply to Impress

Simply to Impress makes custom photo cards and stationery for life's milestones — birth announcements, holiday cards, graduations, weddings, and invitations — with thousands of designs to personalise. The American company positions itself at the premium end of photo stationery, emphasising paper quality and finish over the cheapest possible print.

Escargot

Escargot is a greeting card service used by more than 100,000 people to choose, personalise, and post real cards without going to a shop. The business handles printing and postage, positioning itself around following through on the intention to send something — the birthdays and thank-yous that otherwise go unmarked.

Ryman

Ryman is a British stationery retailer selling office supplies, paper, pens, printers, furniture, and print services through stores across the UK. Trading since 1893, the chain serves home offices, students, and small businesses, and combines its retail range with in-store printing, copying, and binding — services that keep customers coming in between stationery purchases.

iStationery

iStationery sells quality stationery products, positioning itself on customer service as much as on range. The shop covers pens, notebooks, paper, and desk accessories for people who treat stationery as a considered purchase rather than a commodity, and was founded on the idea that shopping for it should be a pleasure rather than a chore.