Layout Grove

Name: Layout Grove
Author: WILLIAM BENJAMIN BURRARD-LUCAS

Stories, carousels & reels

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📷 Photo & Video

🎨 Graphics & Design

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September 1, 2026
September 17, 2026
2.0
iOS 17.0+
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5.91MB
iPhone
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American English

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Turn your photos into finished posts — Stories, swipeable carousels and four kinds of vertical reel — without uploading a single one. Layout Grove does the layout work properly. Pick a shape, drop your photos in, frame each one exactly, and export at full resolution straight to your camera roll. SIX WAYS TO LAY OUT A POST Story — arrange up to six photos and videos across 83 built-in layouts, exported at the perfect size for Stories. Gallery Post — slice one photo into two or three seamless panels that swipe as a carousel, cropped pixel-perfect at 1080 × 1350. Reel Slideshow — Ken Burns motion with silky crossfades, exported as vertical video. Split Reel — two landscape strips stacked top and bottom, taking turns as the reel plays. Pan Reveal — a cinematic pan across one landscape photo that pulls back to reveal the whole frame. Photo Drop — photos tumble in one by one and settle into a stack, like prints dropped on a table. DESIGN YOUR OWN LAYOUTS When none of the 83 built-ins is the shape you want, build one. Place up to ten photo wells by hand — drag, pinch, rotate, resize. Cut each well into a circle, diamond, arch, hexagon or triangle, turn the cut a quarter at a time, add a mat, set the corners. Everything snaps to edges, centres and neighbouring wells, and every change undoes. Save it and use it like any other layout. FRAME EVERY PHOTO PROPERLY Pan, zoom, straighten and flip each photo inside its slot. Rotation zooms to keep the frame covered and settles to level when you get close. Adjust spacing, margins and corner radius across a whole layout at once. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No sign-up. No analytics, no tracking, no advertising, no third-party SDKs. Your photos are processed entirely on your iPhone and are never uploaded — the only thing Layout Grove ever asks the network is whether you have bought Pro. Drafts live on your device, and deleting the app deletes them. LAYOUT GROVE PRO Layout Grove is free, and everything it does today stays free. The layout builder is free to test in full — every gesture, the inspector, undo and save. Pro is a one-time purchase that lets you export the layouts from the layout builder.

What's New in Layout Grove

2.0

September 17, 2026

Version 2.0 is the biggest update since launch. A NEW LOOK Layout Grove has been redrawn from the ground up, taking its cues from an old seed catalogue — cream paper, deep green ink, a warm red accent, and drawn specimens on every screen where you choose something. The editors stay deliberately plain, because your photos are what matter there. There is a new app icon and launch screen to match, and a Light / Dark / System setting under Settings. DESIGN YOUR OWN LAYOUTS The new layout builder lets you place up to ten photo wells by hand on a blank canvas. Drag, pinch, rotate and resize; cut each well into a circle, diamond, arch, hexagon or triangle; turn the cut a quarter at a time; add a mat and set the corners, with both values shown in export pixels so two wells can be matched exactly. Everything snaps to edges, centres and neighbouring wells, and every change undoes. Save your layout and it appears in My Templates, ready to use like any built-in. BETTER FRAMING Photos can now be rotated and flipped inside their slots, with a level detent and a live degree readout. Shaped slots — circles, arches, triangles — now crop against the shape you actually see rather than its bounding box, so nothing goes missing at the edges. Changing spacing or margins re-frames every photo, so no background can show through. SOUND ON STORY VIDEOS A story built from a video clip now carries that clip's own audio into the exported video, looped to length. FIXES • Split Reel crossfades no longer dip toward the background colour at the midpoint of every transition. • The album picker's tap targets are correct — a wide panoramic photo no longer overlaps its neighbours, so tapping selects the photo you meant. • Story photos stay covered when you change spacing, margin or split position. LAYOUT GROVE PRO The layout builder is free to use in full. Pro is a new one-time purchase that lets you export a layout you designed yourself. Everything the app did before remains free.