You enjoyed the sweet, sweet thrill of posting one photo on Instagram. Now get ready to double, triple or quadruple your sweet moments with Instagram’s multi-image photo collages!
Because sometimes one hot photo is not enough to capture the magic of your new haircut, or your spring menu, or your collection of designer parrot capsules. With digital collage, you can combine multiple images into one bold visual statement.
You can create basic collages for your Instagram stories right from the story mode. But to take your collages to the next level (or create something for your main feed), you’ll need to go outside of the app.
Check out our favorite trusted graphic design tools to help you create professional-looking Instagram photo collages—no clipping scissors required.
14 Instagram Collage Maker Apps
A Design Kit
Favorite photo editing program A Color Story released its graphic design tool A Design Kit a few years ago, which became an instant classic. (It appears on just about every list of the best Instagram apps we make!)
Design templates let you create textures, shapes, lines, and colors, while elements like stickers and type-approved fonts add the perfect finishing touch.
squarespace
Owned by Squarespace, the app contains hundreds of templates to spice up your videos, photos, and texts with stylized collage options.
Unfold also has fun effects and fonts to make your post pop. Professional-grade preset filters give your images a unique vibe.
Over
Updated daily with its collection of vibrant, modern templates, as well as graphics and text elements, so there’s always something new to play with while you create the perfect Insta collage.
Photo editing tools are also built right into the program, so you can layer, mask, and tweak like a Photoshop pro without any previous experience.
Mojo
In addition to a huge library of chic Instagram collage layout templates to choose from, Mojo’s animation features offer the best of both worlds: your favorite photos paired with dynamic text or graphics.
Customize the timing and components as you wish to customize preloaded designs.
Tezza
Love the vintage vibe? Tezza can be the app of your dreams. The templates take inspiration from 90s magazines, Y2K moodboards and dreamy vintage movies.
Texture overlays like dust and paper give your collages a sense of depth and dimension. Create a video collage with special effects if you want something even more dynamic.
PicCollage
The vibe might be a bit more of a “scrapbook mom”with PicCollage, but it seems to be enjoyed by over 200 million users. No condemnation!
There are plenty of grid options available to quickly combine multiple images, but there are themed templates on hand to help you easily celebrate or celebrate auspicious occasions (Happy Halloween!).
New stickers and backgrounds are added every week, so you’ll have a new set of tools to play with regularly.
PicJointer
We’re not sure if “PicJointer”is technically a word, but with dozens of grid combinations (sorted by “classic”and “stylish”) at your fingertips, who cares about English?
Let the pictures speak for themselves, grammar expert! Patterned and colorful backgrounds are a fun option to help brand your collages.
SCRL
Download SCRL for next level collage creation. The app lets you create smooth image scrolling for the Instagram carousel feature (a format that’s actually Instagram’s preferred algorithm, FYI!), and it’s pretty impressive.
Overlay your favorite camera photos (or videos!) onto one large graphic and SCRL slices it up so it’s ready for multiple images to load.
Collage Maker ◇
There are many apps called Collage Maker. (Gotta get that sweet, sweet SEO!) But our favorite is this.
There are over 20,000 combinations for your photo collages—every grid option you could ever dream of, plus cascading hearts, kissing faces, or flower petals. Include video in your collage if you’re feeling daring, and even add music.
Layout from Instagram
The official application for creating collages from Insta itself. Yes, it’s annoying that you have to download a separate app to access this multi-photo design feature, but that’s what it is.
Mix your favorite photos in various grid combinations and export straight to Instagram’s compose mode when you’re done.
Story Art
Stylish filters, animated story templates, stickers and GIFs: Get creative with StoryArt formatting and editing options. Chic typography and stylish design details such as faux Polaroid frames offer a quick and easy way to create trendy collages for your main feed, stories or videos.
storychic
It has been downloaded 10 million times and managed to get 4.4 stars on the android app store, so it’s fair to say that StoryChic is a fan favorite.
More than 500 templates and many fonts and pre-installed filters offer ample opportunities for creativity.
storyluxe
Most of Storyluxe’s collage templates (and there are many) are styled after good old filmstrips and printouts. If you think this look suits your brand, this could be the app for all your future Instagram collages.
Storyluxe also has special designer fonts: this is an opportunity to make your content stand out from the crowd if you think it’s appropriate to add a few key text phrases.
Pic Monkey
PicMonkey is a solid online photo editing tool useful if you prefer to do graphic design from your desktop.
It’s owned by Shutterstock, but you can upload your own images (even from free stock photo sites!) to avoid additional fees and take advantage of their elegant Instacollage templates.
Their design is especially useful if you want to combine images and text.
How to make an Instagram collage
Tragic news: at the moment there is no way to create a collage for the main Instagram feed directly in the app. (Why are Insta gods so cruel!?)
However, you can create a basic collage for your stories using the Instagram story creation mode. (Check out our Complete Guide to Instagram Stories for Business if you haven’t already!)
1. Open the Instagram app and tap the + icon at the top of the screen. Select History.
2. This will open your camera roll. Click on the camera icon here to enter the create mode.
3. On the left side of the screen, you will see a list of icons. Touch the third one from the top: the square with the lines inside. This is the Layout icon.
4. Touching the Layout icon will open the layout quadrant on the screen. From here, you can fill in each segment with either a fresh photo or something from your camera roll.
A. Option 1: Take a photo! To take a photo, simply press the photo button: the white circle at the bottom center of the screen. Once you take a photo, it will fill the top left corner of the frame. Continue taking three more photos. To delete something and take a new photo, tap the photo and then tap the delete icon.
b. Option 2: Select from film. Tap the square Camera Roll preview icon in the lower left corner of the screen to access the Camera Roll. Tap the photo you want to place in the top left corner of the quadrant. Repeat until four photos appear on the screen. To delete something and take a new photo, tap the photo and then tap the delete icon.
5. If you want to try a different layout, enter Layout Mode and tap the rectangular grid icon directly below the Layout Mode icon. This will open a selection menu where you can select an alternate grid style. Tap your preferred style, then fill each segment with either a photo or a film image as described above.
6. Happy with your new Insta collage? Click the checkmark to confirm and proceed to add stickers, text or effects. Click the arrow in the lower right corner when you’re ready to post.