For proof you went: Photos
Apple Photos is already the right home for the complete trip. It keeps the originals, dates, places, albums, edits, and all 483 images you may someday need for reasons currently unknown.
Google Photos makes more sense when that library needs to follow you across platforms. Both are excellent at keeping things. Keeping things and saying something are different jobs.
For a montage: video
Use a video editor when the soundtrack is half the point, the clips matter as much as the stills, and you enjoy controlling cuts. A good trip video can be perfect. It can also remain “almost done” until the next trip.
Use a photo-book service when you want paper, shelves, and the satisfying seriousness of an object. Shipping is part of that format. So is choosing every crop.
For the story: Memento
Memento sits between the giant album and the three-second montage. It turns one selected trip into twelve editorial cards that can hold a scene, pause on a detail, call back a recurring bit, and still know when to leave.
It does not rummage through your entire camera roll. You select 50–150 photos through Apple’s picker. Your originals stay in Photos, the story stays private until you share it, and your passport can remain gloriously uninvolved.
- Store everything: Apple Photos or Google Photos.
- Cut to music: a video editor.
- Put it on paper: a photo-book service.
- Find out what the trip was really about: Memento.
Fine print, but make it useful
The questions you were about to ask.
Is Memento a slideshow maker?
No. A slideshow moves on without you. Memento is twelve designed cards you move through at your own pace, with a real editorial arc.
Does Memento choose photos from my whole camera roll?
No. You explicitly select 50–150 photos through Apple’s photo picker. Memento sees the era you hand it, not your entire life.