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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Apps Like Pinterest for Making Collages and Moodboards
Pinterest is great for collecting inspo, less so for making something with it. Here are the apps like Pinterest that turn your pins and photos into real collages and moodboards.
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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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Polyvore Alternatives for Outfit and Aesthetic Collages (2026)
Polyvore shut down in 2018, but people still want that set-and-style collage. Here are the closest Polyvore alternatives for iPhone, starting with the one 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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The Best Landing App Alternative for Aesthetic Collages
Landing, the moodboard collage app people loved, is gone. Here's the closest alternative for making the same aesthetic boards on iPhone, and where Shuffles falls short.
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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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What Is a Seamless Instagram Carousel (and How to Make One)
A plain-English guide to the carousel posts that scroll like one continuous picture. What they are, when to use one, and how to make your first.
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Welcome to the Jodu blog
A quick hello, and who Jodu is for.
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