Photo Collage Maker — Free, No Upload

Most free collage sites want an account, add a watermark, or upload your photos to a server before you have placed a single one. This collage maker does the whole job on a canvas in your browser tab. The photos are read from your disk, arranged, and drawn into one image you download. Nothing is sent anywhere, and closing the tab forgets them.

How to Use the Layout Grid

1. Press Add photos or drop up to nine images onto the tool. They fill the cells in order; the arrows under each thumbnail move a photo earlier or later.
2. Pick a layout. Twelve are built in, from two side by side to a 3 × 3 grid. Layouts outlined in green hold exactly as many photos as you have added.
3. Click a cell to select it, then drag inside it to choose which part of the photo shows. The Zoom slider goes up to 3×, and Re-centre puts it back.
4. Choose a shape, set Spacing, Outer margin, Rounded corners and the background colour, then press Download.

Clicking an empty cell, the grey ones marked + 2, + 3 and so on, opens the file picker straight away, which is quicker than going back to the button.

Size and Quality of the Download

Every shape exports at print-friendly resolution: square at 2160 × 2160, Instagram portrait (4:5) at 2160 × 2700, story (9:16) at 1440 × 2560, wide (16:9) at 2560 × 1440, and 3:2 or 2:3 at 2700 × 1800. The spacing, margin and corner numbers are shown in pixels of that finished image, and they scale with it, so a square collage and a story with the same settings look alike.

Each photo is cropped to fill its cell without being stretched, the way a phone’s gallery fills a thumbnail. JPEG and WebP have a quality slider (92% by default); PNG is lossless and much larger. The preview is drawn at a lower resolution so dragging stays smooth; the download is redrawn at full size.

What Happens When Photos and Cells Don’t Match

Add more photos than the layout has cells and the extra ones are dimmed in the strip and left out of the image until you choose a bigger layout. Add fewer, and the empty cells are filled with the background colour in the download. The tool holds nine photos at most. Downloading with none at all says “Add at least one photo before downloading.” iPhone HEIC files only open in browsers that can decode them, such as Safari on Apple devices; elsewhere the tool names the file it could not read so you can convert that one to JPEG.