The Collage Maker in Your Browser (Work in Progress)

Sometimes you read a recipe, want to try it, and don’t want to install anything to find out whether you like it.

So we built a small collage maker into this site. It is an early work in progress and it does basic editing only — arranging, cropping, a handful of frames and decorations, and an export. It’s a page you can open, follow a recipe on, and close.

Two ways to open it

A blank canvas. Pick a ratio, drop in photos, arrange them yourself. This is the freestyle starting point if you already know what you’re making.

A recipe, pre-set. Every recipe has a companion make page that opens the maker already configured for that recipe — its recommended ratio, its ingredient list, and its steps in a side rail you can read while you work. For example, make the Aesthetic Mood Board Collage opens a landscape canvas with the recipe’s four-to-six-photo ingredient list beside it. The URL pattern is /make/{recipe-slug}/, and there’s a link to it on every recipe page.

Reading the steps and doing the steps in the same window turns out to be the whole point. You’re not switching between a tab and a phone.

Nothing is uploaded

Everything runs on your device. Your photos are decoded, edited, and exported by your own browser — they are never sent to a server, and there is no account to create. Close the tab and nothing of yours is left anywhere.

The one exception is honest to name: the background cutout tool downloads a machine-learning model (roughly 100MB) the first time you use it in a session. That’s the model coming down to you. Your photo still never goes up.

What it can do today

• Freestyle arrange — place, rotate, resize, and layer photos anywhere, plus a Scatter throw that tosses everything onto the canvas at loose angles as a starting point
• Grid layouts with border thickness, gutter, and corner rounding controls
• Crop on any photo
• Frames and shapes — white edge, polaroid, torn paper, mat; and shape masks
• Cast shadows to lift elements off the background
• Text, including vertical Japanese, Chinese, and Korean setting
• A small set of drawn stickers — small is the operative word
• Backgrounds — paper textures, patterns, or one of your own photos
• Background cutout, on-device, for lifting a subject out of its background
• Hand-drawn doodles with a pen
• Multi-photo tone match, which nudges a set of photos toward a shared warmth and brightness
• Export as PNG or JPEG, up to print resolution

What it can’t

No template library. A sticker set you’ll exhaust in a session. No animation, no video, no filter packs, no cloud saves, no phone app. The touch experience works but is not as considered as a native one, and the whole thing is early enough that you should expect rough edges.

For anything serious, use a real app

We still mean what we say in Best Photo Collage Apps: if you want a deep sticker library, occasion templates, a polished mobile experience, and a tool that has been refined over years, install one of those apps. That guide stays independent: we don’t sell a collage app, so its ranking isn’t ours to skew.

Use the maker in your browser when you want to try a recipe in the next five minutes, when you’re on a computer and your phone is elsewhere, when you’d rather not hand your photos to anybody, or when you’re testing an idea before committing to it properly somewhere else.

Start somewhere

Open the recipe library, find something you want to make, and hit its make link. Or start from a blank canvas and see where the Scatter button puts things.