PicPile
Turn a pile of images into one polished picture. Tile them into a styled grid, fan them out from a shared hinge, or frame each on its own — label them with titles and captions and export sharp, while PicPile handles the padding, backdrops, corners, and shadows. Native on Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
Or pick it up along with over twenty other apps — PicPile is included in my bundles.
What it does
Grid, Fan, or Solo
Tile every image into one aligned card, fan them from a shared hinge so each turns a little further than the last, or keep them solo — every shot framed the same way and exported as its own file. Switch with one click.
Style the whole canvas
Dial in padding, the spacing between shots, corner rounding, and a soft shadow or glow. Leave the backdrop transparent, pick any color, or drop in a picture that fills the canvas.
Titles & captions
Give any image a title and a caption, rendered right into the export. Fan gets its own title and subtitle, set into the open space the arc leaves. Text Size scales the type from Small to Large — and the air around it with it.
Drop, open, or paste
Drag images in, choose them from a panel, or paste — ⌘V takes both copied files and raw image data like screenshots or a copy from Preview.
Frame it your way
Solo and Fan fit the canvas to the content, or to a square, 4:3, 16:10, or 9:16. The live preview checkerboards whatever will export transparent, frames the exact edges, and shows the size in pixels.
Mac, iPhone, and iPad
Native on all three, sharing the same .picpile document format — start a pile on the phone that took the photos, finish it on the Mac. Localized in 11 languages everywhere; the Mac direct download auto-updates via Sparkle.
Screenshots
On iPhone and iPad
The same pile, in your pocket.
PicPile is a native iPhone and iPad app too — and since 1.6 it runs the same engine as the Mac, so Grid, Fan and Solo, picture backdrops, Text Size and the aspect ratios all arrive together. Pull images straight from Photos, style the canvas in a sidebar on iPad or a half-height sheet on iPhone that keeps the picture in view while you work, then export or share the result.
It’s the same App Store purchase as the Mac app — buy it once and it’s on all your devices.
Get PicPile
On the App Store for Mac, iPhone, and iPad — one purchase covers all three. Or a notarized direct download for the Mac, with a free trial. Buying more than one app? PicPile is included in my bundles, along with over twenty other apps.
Support
Questions, bug reports, or feature requests? Email ben.dansby@gmail.com and you’ll get a reply, usually within a day or two.