It’s been scarcely dual years given we walked down a aisle with a adore of my life, and we still haven’t combined a marriage imitation album. I’ve even left so distant as to upload thousands of photos from that extraordinary day to Shutterfly, where they still live, usually watchful for me to do something with them. All my mom wants for Mother’s Day? A imitation manuscript from a marriage … this century.

This week, we tested a giveaway iPhone app that Disney is set to launch today, called Story. The whole thought behind it is to finally do something with all a smartphone photos and videos you’ve prisoner that assistance uncover and tell a story of your life. But rather than creation we differentiate by hundreds, if not thousands, of photos, afterwards drag-and-drop any of them into a container in an manuscript outline, Story does it all for you. Fast.

When we open adult a app on your iPhone screen, we see a My Moments streamer and underneath that, a garland of clean, upscale-looking imitation books with your cinema already laid out. Story uses a time and plcae algorithm to figure out that photos and videos go where. You can take photos out or barter their placement, and personalize any imitation book with captions, pages of text, themes, and layouts. Then, with one some-more tap, we can share a finished product with family and friends around e-mail or amicable media. The whole process, from a hotchpotch of snapshots to a pleasing digital storybook, takes about 30 seconds.

When we non-stop adult a app, we had 3 imitation albums watchful for me; one from my new outing to Yosemite, another from my daughter’s basketball diversion final weekend and another whole manuscript filled with photos and videos from her initial equine uncover of a season. Story did a unequivocally good pursuit of putting them in a right places, formed on when and where we was when we took them. It also seemed to theory that ones were a many critical to me, given all of a best shots seemed in a largest imitation slots. It’s a bit supernatural that way.

I also combined a new storybook from scratch, regulating all of a marriage photos that we have saved on my Photo Stream. That took a additional step of boring and dropping photos, that took about dual minutes, start to finish. From there, we could get as artistic as we wanted, essay a good account to explain what we were doing, what we were thinking, and what we wish we all remember when we’re sitting around someday “remembering when.” All we have to do come Sunday morning is pull “send” on an e-mail and a imitation manuscript of my marriage day will be watchful for my mom when she wakes adult on Mother’s Day. Of course, I’ll fake it took me perpetually to emanate and contend a really gracious, “You’re welcome,” when she tells me how many she loves it. It’s a bummer that we can’t indeed imitation a books out yet. I’m certain my mom will ask about that. But Disney Interactive says that’s entrance after this year, along with a app’s accessibility opposite iOS (right now, it’s usually on iPhone and iPod Touch), Android and other platforms.

Two other apps I’ve tested recently come flattering tighten to doing what Story does, though conjunction hits a mom aim so spot-on. New app KeepShot has a leg adult in that we can indeed imitation earthy imitation albums from your cellphone shots for anywhere from $20 to $70, and they’re delivered to your doorstep in reduction than dual weeks. But we still have to drag and dump all of a photos into it, so it loses points for holding some-more time and work than Story. KeepShot is also usually accessible right now on a iPad.

Qwiki is a usually other app I’ve seen that aggregates your smartphone camera hurl for we and lets we emanate mini song videos to save and share. But it tends to come opposite as a small too hipster cold and/or too high-tech for some moms I’ve talked with. Other favorite smartphone, photo-editing and pity apps, such as Snapseed, Whip and Groovebook broach one or dual of a “what do we do with all these photos” solutions, though so far, Story still edges them out as being a many strong and mom-friendly. With Story, there aren’t any additional bookmaking programs to worry about, no hours-to-days-long upload times, and we can do a elementary zoom-in or squeeze-down, to get your photos usually right.

When we asked Disney Interactive editor-in-chief Catherine Connors because formulating an app like this is critical to Disney’s digital height right now, she pronounced it’s a pointer of a complicated digital universe we live in today. Moms are some-more mobile and some-more amicable than ever before. But if anything, we are some-more time-crunched than we’ve ever been. She says Story was combined to assistance solve a problem of how we now share a many critical stories of the lives, in the really own, complicated — nonetheless still suggestive — way. When we “amen sister’d” that, and forked out that we haven’t combined a earthy imitation manuscript of my possess daughter given she was 3 (she’s 12 now), Connors certified she’s never combined imitation books of her possess kids, who are 7 and 4. With Story, we think that’s going to change by Mother’s Day, if it hasn’t already.

Jennifer Jolly is an Emmy Award-winning consumer tech writer and horde of USA TODAY’s digital video uncover TECH NOW. E-mail her during techcomments@usatoday.com. Follow her on Twitter: @JenniferJolly.