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Collage generator: make a free photo collage, no sign-up

Pick a layout, add 2 to 9 photos and download one finished picture. There's no sign-up, no credits and no watermark. Below, we measured how much of your photo each layout crops.

  • Nine travel photos in a three by three grid with rounded corners on white, including a tram, a waterfall and a lighthouse
  • A collie catching a frisbee in a large panel, with a dog on a beach and a white cat in a kitchen in two smaller panels
  • A tram on a cobbled street above two portraits of a woman, on a blue gradient background
  • A white sneaker on a plinth next to a glass perfume bottle in a splash of water
  • 8 layouts
  • 8 canvas sizes
  • Spacing and rounded corners
  • No watermark

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Quick answer

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How do you make a photo collage online for free?

To make a photo collage online for free, open Kenerate's Edit Studio, choose Collage under More tools, add 2 to 9 photos, pick one of 8 layouts and a size, then press Make collage and download. It uses no credits, adds no watermark and works without an account. The collage is built in your browser.

Key facts

Photos
2 to 9 in one collage
Layouts
8, from 2 side by side to 3 × 3
Canvas sizes
8, from 1080 × 1080 to 1500 × 500
Cost
No credits
Account
Not needed
Watermark
None
Backgrounds
4 colours, 3 gradients
Download
PNG, JPG or WebP

Gallery

Nine collages from the same tool

Each one was built with the studio's collage code from AI-generated pictures of fictional people, pets and places. Only the layout, size and sliders change.

Same prompt

Same four photos, three looks

Two sliders and a background change the whole feel. At 100%, rounded corners turn a square box into a circle.

PromptOne 2 × 2 layout on a 1080 × 1080 canvas.

  • No gaps: One 2 × 2 layout on a 1080 × 1080 canvas.No gapsSpacing 0%, corners 0%
  • Default: One 2 × 2 layout on a 1080 × 1080 canvas.DefaultSpacing 2%, corners 6%
  • Circles: One 2 × 2 layout on a 1080 × 1080 canvas.CirclesSpacing 6%, corners 100%, black

How to

How to use the collage generator

Time needed
Steps
4 steps

  1. Step 1

    Open Collage

    Go to /app/edit, press Ctrl+K and type collage. You can also find it under More tools. Accept the studio's first-visit notice if it appears.

  2. Step 2

    Add your photos

    Press Add photos and pick up to 9 at once. Tap any box in the preview to set or swap its photo.

  3. Step 3

    Choose a layout and size

    Pick one of 8 layouts and one of 8 canvas sizes, then set spacing, rounded corners and a background.

  4. Step 4

    Make and download

    Press Make collage. Add text or stickers if you like, then download it as PNG, JPG or WebP.

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Tips

Make a collage that looks planned

Small choices that save a second try.

  • Put wide photos in wide boxes and tall photos in tall boxes. That's the biggest thing you can do to keep faces in frame.

  • Keep the subject near the middle. Every photo is cropped from its centre, and the collage panel has no way to slide it.

  • If the subject sits at the edge, crop the photo first, then add the cropped version to the collage.

  • Fill every box. An empty one stays as a grey square in the finished picture.

  • Use fewer, bigger photos for phones. A 3 × 3 on a 1080 × 1080 canvas leaves each photo about 331 pixels wide.

  • Pick the size before you choose photos, because a tall Story and a wide banner change the shape of every box.

Models

When a collage isn't enough

What each model is good at. Open any one straight in the generator.

  • Nano Banana 2 Fast title card — a quick vibrant pop-art product shot of a sneaker bursting from a banana-yellow backdrop with speed lines

    Google

    Nano Banana 2 Fast

    Output
    About 4 MP (2K)

    Best for

    Photo too tight for its box? Expand Image paints new edges first

    Open Nano Banana 2 Fast

FAQ

Collage Generator questions

What is the best free collage generator?

It depends on what you need. Kenerate suits a quick grid with no account, no credits and no watermark. If you want a large library of templates, Fotor lists 1,000+ collage templates and photo grids, while Kenerate has 8 layouts.

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Is this collage maker really free?

Yes. Making and downloading a collage uses no credits and adds no watermark. AI tools in the same studio, such as Expand Image, do use credits, and those need an account.

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Do I need to sign up to make a collage?

No. We tested it on the live site without an account: we added photos, made the collage and downloaded a full-size PNG. An account only matters if you want to save your work to the cloud.

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Are my photos uploaded?

Not if you aren't signed in. In our test, the browser sent no upload requests from adding photos to downloading. If you're signed in, photos you add with Add photos are saved to your Kenerate workspace.

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How many photos can I put in a collage?

From 2 to 9, depending on the layout. If you add more photos than the layout has boxes, the extras are left out. In our test, five files in a 2 × 2 filled four boxes.

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Can I move a photo inside its box?

No. Each photo fills its box and is cropped from the centre, and the panel has no zoom or slide control. Crop the photo before adding it if you want a different part to show.

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What size should a collage be for Instagram?

The tool has three Instagram-ready canvases: Insta post at 1080 × 1080, Insta portrait at 1080 × 1350 and Story / Reel at 1080 × 1920. It also has sizes for YouTube thumbnails, Pinterest pins, banners, Facebook posts and A4 posters.

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Can I add text to a collage?

Yes. After you press Make collage, the result opens as a design, so you can add text, shapes and stickers on top before you download it.

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Is there a photo collage app to install?

No. Kenerate runs in the browser on a phone or computer, so there's nothing to install.

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Can AI make the collage for me?

Not here. This tool places your own photos in a layout, and you choose the order. It doesn't pick photos or generate new ones. To merge pictures into one new scene, use the AI image combiner.

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In depth

Collage Generator, explained

What works, what to avoid, and how to pick a model.

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Which collage layouts can you choose?

There are 8 layouts. These are the box sizes on a 1080 × 1080 canvas at the default 2% spacing, worked out from the studio's own code:

  • 2 side by side: two boxes of 508 × 1037.
  • 2 stacked: two boxes of 1037 × 508.
  • 1 big + 2: one box of 613 × 1037 and two of 402 × 508.
  • 1 top + 2: one box of 1037 × 613 and two of 508 × 402.
  • 2 × 2: four boxes of 508 × 508.
  • 2 + 3: two boxes of 508 × 561 and three of 331 × 455.
  • 3 × 2: six boxes of 331 × 508.
  • 3 × 3: nine boxes of 331 × 331.

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We build and run the Kenerate generator. Every example is a real output of the model named under it; models and presets were checked against the app's code.

Sources: Kenerate Edit Studio · MDN — CanvasRenderingContext2D drawImage() · MDN — CanvasRenderingContext2D roundRect() · Fotor — Free photo collage maker

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