Collages are a great way to make your photography and videography stand out. If you want to display in style your memories from your latest trip, create awesome content for your social media followers or perhaps offer your loved ones a special anniversary gift, a collage is perfect for the job.
Putting together a collage is super easy to do today, thanks to the multitude of apps that are specially built to server this purpose. In this article we’ve compiled a list of some of the best collage makers you can creatively put to use if you’re an Apple user:
VideoCollage
VideoCollage is our first proposal for creating an artistic collage. The app is available for both iPhone and Mac and enables you to create collages from photos, videos and music. VideoCollage comes with an intuitive interface and places at your disposal more than a hundred layouts for the design, with up to nine cells. The app gives you the option of adding a frame around your videos and images and adjusting it with regards to its size, color or texture. You can also change the aspect ratio, by selecting from 7 available formats.
The app lets you further customize your collage. You can zoom in and out, pan your photos and videos, insert a title or add your favorite song as background music and choose the exact point where it starts. VideoCollage invites you to do a little bit of DJ-ing by mixing the volume of each video and of the added song or by applying fade in/fade out audio effects. You can also change the order of the photos and videos inside the template simply by using drag and drop. Once you’ve put the finishing touches, you can easily share your video collage on Instagram or Facebook or send it via email.
- Price: Free (PRO Version: $4.99)
- Download Link: iPhone
- Price: Free (PRO Version: $9.99)
- Download Link: Mac
PicCollage
PicCollage is designed to help you create beautiful collages from photos and clips. You can add your own pictures from your gallery, but there’s also the possibility to search and add images from the web. The app offers numerous grid layouts to arrange images as you wish, as well as hundreds of templates to create eye-catching visual content. At the same time you can resort to the freestyle mode, which lets you design a collage according to your preferences.
Once inside a certain layout, you can easily change the placement of the pictures, adjust their size and rotate them to the desired angle. You can enhance your collage by adding customizable text comments and a large variety of stickers, by applying motion effects or changing the background. You can save your creation in your phone, directly share it with your friends and followers on all major social networks or even select to print it.
- Price: Free (Subscription: $35.99/year)
- Download Link: iPhone
PicPlayPost
PicPlayPost is a collage maker app that offers support for standard photos, live photos, GIF’s and videos. The app allows you to insert up to 12 photos and videos into the collage from your iPhone, as well as import videos from YouTube. You can create clips with a maximum length of 30 minutes, select the preferred template and aspect ratio, as well as adjust the frame’s color, size and thickness.
When it comes to audio, PicPlayPost lets you add your own music, mix the soundtracks as you wish, as well as insert multiple voice-over comments to the video. You can also add transitions, customizable text boxes and text or logo watermarks if you want to brand or protect the video you upload online. Once you’re done you can export your resulting video on Facebook or YouTube or send via email email or WhatsApp.
- Price: Free (Subscription: $47.99/year)
- Download Link: iPhone
PhotoGrid
PhotoGrid is more than an iOS collage maker. This app is quite rich in features and offers you a multitude of options to edit your photos and videos, as well as create fresh visual content. When it comes to collage making, you have the option of adding up to 9 videos or 16 photos inside the template. Speaking of templates, get ready because there are over 20.000 available to choose from.
You can easily edit the photos and videos inside the collage. PhotoGrid enables you to swap the position of your files, trim, crop, flip or rotate them, adjust the scale, apply filters and artistic effects, zoom in and out and many more. Further customizing includes changing the aspect ratio and the background, adding the desired music, text captions or stickers. Besides collages, the app also lets you create avatars, slideshows, scrapbooks, posters, 3D cards or memes.
- Price: Free (Subscription: $33.99/year)
- Download Link: iPhone
Pic Jointer
Pic Jointer is an iPhone photo collage maker designed to trigger your creativity. The app offers hundreds of standard and stylish layouts and multiple possibilities to edit your collage. You get to adjust the aspect ratio to your preferences, tweak the frames and colors, pick the desired background, rotate, mirror, pan your images or zoom in and out.
With Pic Jointer you can spice things up by adding to your collage cool shapes and stickers and text captions with funky fonts and colors. The app also comes with editing tools in case you feel the need to fine-tune your images. Once you’re done editing, you can easily share your content on Facebook or Instagram.
- Price: Free (Subscription: $4.99/week)
- Download Link: iPhone
Diptic
Diptic is a photo and video collage app for iPhone developed to make your stories stand out. The app comes packed with over 190 design layouts and lets you add up to 9 files (photos and/or videos) in each layout. You can add a border around the collage and make adjustments to its size, color or texture. Inside the collage you can swap the position of the photos, pan, rotate, flip or zoom them.
Diptic gives you the possibility to do a little bit of photo and video editing. You can adjust the contrast, brightness or saturation of your images, as well as apply artistic filters to them. When it comes to video, you can select the preferred start and stop time, add music and choose the starting point and many more. The app also offers the option to insert a text caption. When you’re satisfied with the way the collage looks, you can save it or directly share it on social media.
- Price: $2.99 (IAP: $0.99)
- Download Link: iPhone
Fotor
Fotor is both an editor and photo collage app. It comes with two type of templates for your collage design: classic, where you can insert up to 9 pictures, and magazine, which is the more stylish version of the two. As far as customizing goes, you’re free to adjust the color and width of the frames, tweak the spacing, round off the corners or drop a shadow.
Fotor also gives you the freedom to make certain edits inside the template: you can change the position of the pics, rotate them or apply a wide range of special effects to them. At the same time, the app is a powerful editing tool. You can give your images a professional look by adjusting the brightness, contrast or saturation, by improving the sharpness, blurring out or cropping certain parts or by applying numerous effects and scenes.
- Price: Free (Subscription: $39.99/year)
- Download Link: iPhone
- Price: Free (Subscription: $39.99/year)
- Download Link: Mac
Posterino
Posterino is a photo collage app for Mac packed with useful features. The tool comes with an innovative interface that gives users the opportunity to make a wide range of customizations with ease. In order to create a collage, all you have to do is drag and drop your pictures. The program will then automatically apply a layout adjusted to the number of pictures added. Speaking of number of images, you’re free to use from just a few to a thousand files.
Posterino places at your disposal a large variety of templates to choose from, including grid, square-grid, tile, circular and various other layouts. You can resize the document or chosen template, change the alignment of the photos, crop and rotate them, edit the photo frame, change the background or apply artistic filters. In addition the app lets you add text boxes, captions, as well as metadata information to your pictures. You can save your collage locally, send it via email or directly share it on social media.
- Price: Free (Subscription: $14.99/year)
- Download Link: Mac
FotoJet
FotoJet is an app developed to create photo grids and collages on Mac, Windows and directly in your browser. The tool is quite intuitive and implicitly simple to use. The first step is the most difficult, since you have to select one of the 700 templates available. There are different types of layouts available: photo grid, classic, modern, 3D, art, creative. Once you’ve chosen the template, you can upload your images and start the customization process.
FotoJet gives you plenty of possibilities to customize your photo grid or collage. In that sense you can freely reshape the cells using drag and drop, change the aspect ratio by choosing from multiple preset sizes, crop, rotate, resize and flip photos. At the same time you can set the spacing and roundness of the grids, perform color corrections, apply dozens of artistic effects or add text to your images. It’s worth mentioning that this Mac app can be also used to create various graphic designs, such as posters, comics or photo cards.
- Price: $9.99
- Download Link: Mac
Picture Collage Maker 3 Lite
Picture Collage Maker 3 Lite is our final solution to create various types of visual content on your Mac. The app comes equipped with over 50 professionally-designed templates to help you create not only collages, but also scrapbooks, photo calendars, albums or posters. You’ll also find a multitude of backgrounds, clip art, frames and masks which you can mix to obtain the ideal design.
Picture Collage Maker 3 Lite allows you to drag and drop your images, as well as import them from other sources, including Lightroom. Once added into the collage, you have the possibility to move, resize, crop and rotate your pictures, apply diverse filters and effects or add customizable text. When you’re done, you have options to save your collage using multiple formats including PDF, share it online or directly print it.
- Price: Free (IAP: $1.99)
- Download Link: Mac
