Download the latest version of BookWright for Mac - Application for creation beautiful books, magazines, and ebooks. Read 3 user reviews of BookWright on MacUpdate. Make a book with BookSmart, Blurb's easy-to-use book making tool. Create custom photo books, notebooks and planners. Free download for Mac or PC. BookWright, Free Download by Blurb, Inc. Design your books, both printed and electronic, and publish them via Blurb. Download Review Comments Questions & Answers (1) We do not have a download file for the latest version (2.0.1), but you can try downloading it from the developer's site. Download BookWright 2007.7 for Mac from our website for free. The most popular version of the application is 1.0. The default filename for the program's installer is bookwright.dmg. The application lies within Productivity Tools, more precisely Office Tools. The actual developer of this free software for Mac is Blurb Inc.
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Free & Powerful
Create layouts, add text, and set up print-ready pages. One file makes both print and ebooks.Customizable Templates
Start fast with high-design templates for popular books, or start fresh with your own layouts.10+ Years of Quality
More than 320,000 books, ebooks, and magazines have been made with BookWright.
Built-in Tutorials
BookWright features videos, instructions, and tips built right into the application so you’ll have everything you need right at your fingertips.Ella Bella Bunny Detective
'The whole process with Blurb has been super easy, putting the book together using the BookWright app was really simple.'Fall Fare
'As a visually sensitive person, I knew I needed a program that was simple and intuitive. I was thrilled when I found curating a narrative through BookWright to be second nature.'Twenty Fifteen
'If you like a little more control, BookWright allows you to really get into the nitty gritty of customizing your book…I did an entirely custom book in about an hour!'
With Bookwright
Put special moments on proud display. BookWright makes it easy to create unique wall décor with your photos and designs.
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Features
- Free, downloadable, professionally-designed layouts (and the ability to easily create your own)
- Print book, ebook, and PDF output—all from the same project file
- Free unique ISBNs for every version of your book (a $125 value)
- WYSIWYG print output via a color profile custom-built for our printers
- Reflowable text containers
- Rich Text Format (RTF) import for text-centric books
- Import of your existing Blurb book files (created in BookSmart or Bookify)
System Requirements
Windows - Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10- Intel Pentium Dual-Core or AMD Athlon II processor
- 2GB of RAM
- 500MB of available hard-disk space
- Screen Resolution - 1280x800
- Internet connection required for publishing
Mac OSX - 10.7+- Intel Core 2 Duo processor
- 2GB of RAM
- 500MB of available hard-disk space
- Screen Resolution - 1280x800
- Internet connection required for publishing
Ready to make your book?
One of the reasons I love using Blurb for photo books, is the variety of ways to make a photo book. You can make a book entirely online with Bookify. You can use the Book Module within Lightroom so you’re using only 1 program to organize, edit, and print your photos. You can use their downloadable free programs, BookSmart or BookWright. Finally, you can even use a plug-in for Adobe In-Design to create stunning custom layouts and print with Blurb.
As Barry Schwartz writes in the Paradox of Choice, sometimes having more choices makes it difficult to actually choose any. And that’s how I feel when it comes to which free downloadable Blurb software you should use for your next book. I’ve put off giving you my thoughts on BookSmart or BookWright for a while – partly because I’m mixed.
Being completely honest and transparent here, there are some advantages with their new program BookWright that I love. But they didn’t put everything that I love from BookSmart into their new program. So when it comes to giving a recommendation….I have a hard time telling you to use one versus the other.
Bookwright Software
But I know this can be a big sticking point for some so I’m going to provide a few considerations to help you make your decision. If you want to go even deeper and learn how to use BookSmart or BookWright for your next photo book, I hope you’ll sign up for my Intro to Photo Book Design Workshop. I cover both programs in more depth (with screenshots and videos) so you can make the best decision for your book and know exactly how to use the programs.
Custom Layouts
While you can’t create custom layouts in Bookify or the Lightroom Book Module, Blurb’s free downloadable programs offer the ability to design custom layouts to fit your photos. Within BookWright, it’s extremely easy to add the photo and text boxes you want on the page and save it to your library. While it can be done in BookSmart, it’s a little more cumbersome and takes extra time. You have to utilize a separate work space to customize your layouts. Essentially, it adds another layer or process, distancing you from the actual context of your book.
Advantage: BookWright
Text Styles
If you want to use text for your photo book – even as page numbers – it’s easier to set up the characteristics of each type of text you want to use (headings, captions, and page numbers) in order to have consistency throughout your book. This is not as easy in BookWright. Each type of text you’ll want to include will require separate formatting….or copying and pasting each time.
Advantage: BookSmart
Alignment
One of the best ways to make your book look more professional is to align your photos. It’s even better if you can align them between the left and right page. In BookSmart, you have to use a grid on each page to align the photos. BookWright makes alignment extremely easy and intuitive with guides showing you when you align your photo boxes.
Advantage: BookWright Want to see how these two programs look?
Bookwright Ebook
In the end, even though BookWright is very easy to use….I still think I prefer BookSmart when it comes to Blurb’s free software programs. It gives me the level of control I prefer when I’m designing photo books. I’d love to hear from you! Do you have experience with both programs? Which one is your favorite program?