# KUMU - Photo Layout

> KUMU - Photo Layout (iPhone/iPad app by AKIRA SANO.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kumu-photo-layout/id6816951705 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [AKIRA SANO](https://appshunter.io/developer/6801496956)
- Category: Photo & Video, Graphics & Design
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 13 MB
- Languages: American English, Japanese
- Released: 2026-10-05
- Data updated: 2026-10-10

## What is KUMU?

KUMU is a photo layout app made for composing photos, not just arranging them.
Combine photos, negative space, text, and graphic elements within a grid, and decide the composition with your own hands.
KUMU stays out of the way and helps you shape everything into place.
■ Compose photos freely
Place photos on a grid, move and swap them, adjust their scale, position, and crop.
You can use the same photo more than once, or let a single photo span multiple grid cells.
■ Combine photos, space, text, and overlays
Create layouts using photos, empty space, and color cells.
Text can be placed freely over your composition, with support for moving, scaling, and rotation. Adjust horizontal or vertical writing, fonts, colors, character spacing, and line spacing.
With Overlays, you can also add rectangles, circles, lines, and images on top of your composition.
■ Harmonize different photos
Use Harmonize to balance differences in brightness and color when several photos are combined into a single work.
You can let KUMU adjust them naturally, or choose one photo as a reference for the others.
Individual photo adjustments and finishing adjustments for the entire composition are also available.
■ Fine-tune your layout
Adjust cell spacing, outer margins, backgrounds, corner radius, borders, shadows, feathering, and blending.
Editing grid guides are never included in the exported image, so you can work with structure while keeping the final result clean.
■ Save your works and continue later
Your current editing state is automatically saved on your device, so you can continue where you left off the next time you open KUMU.
You can also save multiple named works and return to them later for further editing.
■ Made for iPhone and iPad
KUMU provides the same core editing experience on both iPhone and iPad.
On iPad, the larger workspace and grids up to 10×10 give you even more room to build detailed compositions.
■ KUMU Pro
The Free version includes KUMU’s core editing features.
KUMU Pro is a one-time purchase that unlocks:
・Up to 50 photos
・Grids up to 7×7 on iPhone and 10×10 on iPad
・All aspect ratios
・Up to 50 saved works
・High-resolution collage export up to 6000 px
・Export of original source photos used in a work
・Individual export of placed photos  
You decide the composition.
KUMU helps bring it together.
Make your photos your own with KUMU.

## Is KUMU safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess KUMU.

## Is KUMU legit?

KUMU - Photo Layout has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for KUMU is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.1.1 — 2026-10-09

KUMU 1.1.1 gives you more control over outer spacing.
• Adjust the top, bottom, left, and right sides individually
• Keep using linked controls for All, Vertical, and Horizontal spacing
• Expanded the maximum outer spacing to 70
• Spacing now adjusts in clear 1-step increments  
Create more expressive layouts by giving each side exactly the amount of space you want.

### 1.1 — 2026-10-07

KUMU 1.1 further refines the photo composition experience.
• Added Photo Border and Matte. Give each photo a framed look with adjustable spacing and color.
• Separated Canvas Border and Photo Border so each can be adjusted independently.
• Improved Natural color matching to better preserve the character of warm and cool images while bringing photos together more naturally.
• Improved Blend with clearer availability warnings, more natural transitions between images with different brightness levels, and smoother updates while editing.
• Added 360 dpi export support.
• Expanded the adjustment ranges for Finish and individual photo adjustments.
• Refined the export screen layout for clearer access to long-edge size, DPI, Save to Photos, and Share.
• Improved rendering quality and overall editing stability.

### 1.0 — 2026-10-05

No release notes.

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