Questions, answered

Album Map turns people, messages, photos, videos, and map locations into a route-based album. Free accounts can save albums and export basic videos; premium access adds interactive map export, preview, and sharing.

The main person and each contributor need a name, a map location, and at least one photo or video. You can add extra media for richer albums, and an optional avatar can be used as the map marker image.

Album Map uses the first image from that person's uploaded media as the map marker. If only videos are available, the album can still render without a custom marker image.

Type an address, city, venue, or landmark and choose a location suggestion. Album Map stores the selected coordinates with the album so future previews and exports use the same place.

After signing in, you can save albums, collect guest contributions, edit style controls, and export 720px videos at 30 FPS with standard encoding.

Premium unlocks interactive map export, interactive preview in the builder, password-protected interactive map sharing, and higher-quality video exports up to 4K.

After Stripe confirms checkout, Album Map syncs your subscription on the billing success page and unlocks premium access for active or trialing subscriptions. Stripe webhooks also update your account if you close the checkout tab before returning.

Yes. Signed-in users can tune style, timing, zoom, and map behavior. Premium is required for interactive preview/export and for video quality above 720px, 30 FPS, standard encoding.

Use the Billing dashboard from your account to review plan status, renewal dates, premium access, invoice history, and Stripe-hosted billing management.

The Billing history page reads your recent invoices directly from Stripe. When Stripe provides them, you can open the hosted invoice or download the invoice PDF.

Billing actions open Stripe Customer Portal, where payment methods, subscription management, and cancellation are handled securely. If you cancel at the end of the billing period, premium access stays active until that period ends.

If your account already has an active premium subscription, Album Map sends you to the Billing dashboard instead of starting a duplicate subscription.

Signed-in users can create contribution links for saved albums. Guests can submit media and contributor details through the shared link, then the album owner reviews contributions before using them.

Yes. Premium users can generate an interactive map export and create a password-protected map share link from a saved album.

Saved albums are tied to your signed-in account and indexed in the app database, with media stored under your album folder. Temporary guest exports are used for free video generation and do not appear in your account.

The backend captures the interactive route with Playwright and Chromium, then encodes the final MP4 with ffmpeg. If browser or encoder dependencies are unavailable, the export returns an error instead of producing a broken file.