Several community recommendations fit this well. Photobox was suggested based on positive experiences with other photo printing products. Albelli was recommended specifically for photo books, with good results reported; it offers downloadable software with templates or a from-scratch layout option, and it ships to the UK at UK rates. MyPublisher was also recommended for photo books: its downloadable software supports offline creation, templates, basic editing like cropping/rotation, and a range of book formats including hard and soft cover. Reported print durability and quality were good.

If your main problem is a buggy web editor, services that offer downloadable album-design software may be a better fit than browser-only tools.