Notes from the cutting room
Updates, behind-the-scenes, and small bits of writing about Jodu and the craft of collage.
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Best Moodboard Apps for iPhone (2026)
Compare the best iPhone moodboard apps for templates, animated collages, Pinterest inspiration, design research, collaboration and vision boards.
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Best Pinterest Collage Apps for iPhone (2026)
Compare the best iPhone apps for turning Pinterest pins and saved inspiration into editable, animated collages and moodboards using templates or a blank canvas.
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How to Make a Digital Scrapbook on iPhone
Make a digital scrapbook page on your iPhone with photos, paper textures, frames, washi tape, cutouts and journaling—no desktop editor required.
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Panoramic vs Seamless Instagram Carousels
Learn the difference between panoramic, seamless and standard Instagram carousels, with examples, layout advice and the right workflow for each.
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Pinterest Board vs Collage: What’s the Difference?
A Pinterest board collects and organizes Pins; a collage combines selected images and cutouts into one composition. Here is when to use each and how to move between them.
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How to Make a Polyvore-Style Outfit Collage on iPhone
Build a Polyvore-style outfit collage from clothing photos on your iPhone: cut out each piece, arrange the look, add texture, and export it.
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What Happened to Polyvore? Why It Shut Down
Polyvore shut down in 2018 after an acquisition by SSENSE. Here is what happened, why people still miss it, and what to use for outfit collages now.
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Animated Ransom Note Text on iPhone (the Cut-Out Shuffle Effect)
Animate ransom note text on iPhone. A shuffle effect flicks every cut-out letter through different scans, stop-motion style, and bakes into the exported video. Free.
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How to Make Ransom Note Text on iPhone (Real Cut-Out Letters, Free)
Make ransom note text on your iPhone with real cut-out letters. Type a word, shuffle each letter through different scanned cut-outs, and use it in a collage. Free.
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How to Add Text to a Video on iPhone
Add text to a video on your iPhone, free and on-device. Here's how to drop words over a clip, style them, and save it back out as a video. Nothing uploads.
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How to Add Animated Text to a Video (Free, on iPhone)
Add animated text to a video on your iPhone. Type, stagger, and shimmer effects that bake right into the exported clip, free and on-device.
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How to Separate Two People in a Photo on iPhone
Separate two people in a photo on your iPhone, free and on-device. Here's how to lift each one on their own, and why some photos split cleanly while others come out as one.
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Best Apps Like Pinterest for Photos, Collages & Moodboards (2026)
Compare the best apps like Pinterest for collecting inspiration, making photo collages, building moodboards, and turning saved pins into something original.
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The Best Aesthetic Collage and Moodboard Apps for iPhone (2026)
A short, honest guide to the best aesthetic collage and moodboard apps for iPhone in 2026, what to use now that Landing and Polyvore are gone, and how Shuffles compares.
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The Best Digital Scrapbook App for iPhone
Make digital scrapbook and junk journal pages on your iPhone with paper textures, washi tape, frames, and handwriting. Here's the app to use and how to build a page.
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Best Polyvore Alternatives for Outfit Collages (2026)
Compare the best Polyvore alternatives for making outfit sets and aesthetic collages in 2026, including an iPhone option built for your own photos.
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How to Make a Vision Board on iPhone (Free App)
Make a vision board on your iPhone for free. Pull images from your camera roll or Pinterest, cut them out, add your goals in text, and set it as your wallpaper.
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Apps and Websites Like Shuffles for Aesthetic Collages
Looking for websites and apps like Shuffles? Here are the best alternatives for making aesthetic cutout collages on iPhone, from your own camera roll or straight from Pinterest.
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Landing Collage App: What Happened and the Best Alternative
The Landing collage app is gone. Learn what happened and compare the closest alternative for making aesthetic moodboards and collages on iPhone.
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How to Turn a Pinterest Board into a Collage on iPhone (Free)
Import pins straight from your Pinterest boards into a collage on your iPhone. No screenshotting, no saving to camera roll, free to start.
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How to Make a Photo Collage on iPhone (Free)
Turn a handful of photos into one good-looking collage on your iPhone, free. Backgrounds, frames, stickers, text, and how to save it.
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How to Remove a Background from a Photo on iPhone (Free)
Cut the subject out of any photo on your iPhone in one tap, free and entirely on-device. No background-removal step and no upload.
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The Exact Dimensions and Grid Math for Seamless Instagram Carousels
Slide sizes, master-canvas width, seam alignment, safe margins, and export settings for pixel-perfect panorama carousels. The reference, with the math.
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How to Make a Swipeable Panorama Carousel for Instagram
The carousel that scrolls like one continuous image. What makes the swipe land, and how to build one on your phone without slicing anything by hand.
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Seamless Carousel Meaning: What It Is and How to Make One
What does seamless carousel mean? Learn how continuous Instagram carousel posts work, when to use one, and how to make your first on iPhone.
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Welcome to the Jodu blog
A quick hello, and who Jodu is for.
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