Groovebook offered a monthly subscription for printed photo books made from smartphone pictures.
Julie and Brian Whiteman founded Groovebook as a service that turned selected phone photographs into small, bound books. Subscribers could upload images through a mobile app, and the company printed and mailed a new book regularly.
The business appeared on Shark Tank in 2014 and accepted an investment offer from Mark Cuban and Kevin O’Leary. A common mix-up is confusing Groovebook with Shutterfly: Shutterfly was the later acquirer, not the original Shark Tank company. Shutterfly acquired Groovebook in 2014, helping expand its mobile-photo services.
The company is notable because it connected smartphone photography with physical keepsakes before photo-printing subscriptions became widespread. The product was designed for casual family memories rather than large, professionally designed albums.