Arrange your photos, tell a story, and share from your iPad with Layout

Layout is a new'ish app from developer Juicy Bits, that makes it easy to arrange your photos, tell stories, and share with friends, in a diptic like way.

Simple and easy to use.  Swipe your finger to quickly split a frame into sections, and use the radial menu to add photos directly from Facebook, Instagram, or Flickr. Enhance images with built-in filters and effects, adjust saturation and contrast, add some stickers, and a whole lot more. Then, add a caption to each photo, apply a background color or pattern, and share your layout with friends and family via e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr. If you want to go back, Layout includes undo and redo, and best of all, you can store your projects in iCloud to share them with other devices.

Please note: Layout ONLY runs on the iPad 2 or later.

App Store Link: Layout; Sale Price: £1.49/$1.99/€1.59

Comments

[David O]

I like the concept but I noticed on the iTunes page that one of the comments said, "the app will only output 1.6MP." If this is correct, I think I will hold out for a while. I generally don't do any app that is less than full res.

[Editor]

@David, my test layout saved at 1573 x 1189, which is just under 2 megapixels, which I think is OK for this type of app.

[Mike Swanson]

I'm the author of the app, and if you enable the "Large Project Size" switch, your maximum resolution is 2,048 x 2,048 (4MP). We plan to support higher resolutions in future updates. Thanks for the review!

[David O]

@Mike

Thanks for the response and the information. I may give it a run now.

David

[David O]

@Mike

Been playing with it and I am really enjoying it. The only thing I haven't found (may not be there) is a way to change the font color. I was able to change the font and size with no problem. I see that I can add the dark band for contrast with the white text but was wondering if I just missed the way to change the font color.

Thanks again. A fun app.

[Mike Swanson]

@David

There's no way in version 1 to change the font color, but it's certainly on our list of updates. We have very long list of features that we couldn't squeeze into the first version, and we'll be updating the app many times in the future. The first update--due within a few weeks--will add iPhone compatibility. There are a couple of early screenshots on our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/LayoutApp