CollageThing: Collage Maker

Drop your photos into a layout, then pile on tape, sticky notes, doodles and stickers. Save it as a wallpaper or a story at full resolution, with no watermark.

Make a photo collage that looks like you made it, not like a template made it. Pick a layout, drop your photos in, then pile on tape, sticky notes, doodles and stickers until it looks like yours.

No ads. No watermark. Not even on the free version.

WALLPAPERS AND POSTS Make a collage wallpaper for your lock screen or home screen, or a post or a story to put up. The canvas sizes are set up for both already, at exact pixel sizes, so nothing gets cropped off at the last moment. There are seven of them, down to an Apple Watch face.

21 COLLAGE LAYOUTS Photo grids, a big hero shot with smaller ones around it, filmstrips, moodboards, postcards, pinwheels, and proper messy scrapbook pages. The app puts the layouts that suit your photo count first. Slide and pinch each photo inside its frame until it sits right, and set the spacing, corner radius and margin to taste.

A SCRAPBOOK, NOT JUST A PHOTO GRID This is the fun part. Torn paper notes. Washi tape at whatever angle you like. Handwriting, script, marker, chalk and typewriter fonts, ten faces in all. Seven sticker packs: love, faces, nature, weather, treats, party and marks. Hearts, stars, arrows, speech bubbles, banners, bows, fairy lights, confetti, flowers and little polaroid frames with captions. Drag it, spin it, resize it, recolor it, and layer it exactly where you want.

BACKGROUNDS AND READY MADE PAGES Plain color, a gradient, paper textures, or one of your own photos blurred behind everything. Or skip the setup and start from a designed scrapbook page, already laid out, and just add your photos. Seven of them, from a clean editorial spread to a pink pinboard.

MAKE THE PHOTOS MATCH Nine filters, from vivid to film to noir, plus brightness, contrast, warmth, saturation, sharpness and vignette on any photo.

KEEP THE LOOK YOU LIKED Save your own collage as a layout, decorations and all, and start the next one from it with the photos empty. Your collages stay in the app to come back to, rename and duplicate.

SAVED SHARP, NEVER WATERMARKED Every collage saves at full resolution, straight to your camera roll, ready to set as a wallpaper or share anywhere.

PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your photos never leave your phone. No account, no sign up, no tracking, no analytics. The app works in Airplane Mode.

Free to use, with an optional one time unlock for the rest of the layouts, the other starter pages, gradient and textured backgrounds, patterned tape and the extra canvas sizes. One payment, no subscription.