WalkColor
Color collage maker for photos
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
WalkColor is a lightweight collage tool that turns any photo into a wallpaper, Instagram story cover, Reels backdrop, or Live Photo in seconds.
Pick a photo. Drop a color block. Scatter playful shapes. Add a few words. Export. That's it.
▸ COLOR BLOCK
Solid or striped. Drag to resize and reposition anywhere on the canvas.
▸ PALETTE
Automatic color extraction from your photo, plus a built-in Morandi preset library.
▸ SHAPES
14 playful shapes that punch through the color block to reveal your photo underneath.
▸ LAYOUTS
Five distribution modes — scatter, beam, wave, rain, grid — or tap-to-place wherever you want.
▸ TEXT
13 English and Chinese fonts, with optional drop shadow.
▸ EXPORT
PNG, MP4 video, and Live Photo — export them all in one tap.
more 很好用!使用简洁、方便。不过导出有点慢。
这个是接下来优化的重点!谢谢你的反馈~
· Live "Rain" intro adds a fade-out — pick settle or fade
· DIY: adjustable color-block width and decoration center-snap
· Redesigned feedback page — check for updates, pick a module, find the author
· Fixed Live export hanging on the lock screen and not saving to your album
· Fixed Live photos getting stretched or squished after export
2.11.0 4d ago
Fix a severe bug that makes embosser icon not clickable.
2.10.0 5d ago
· New multi-photo collage — arrange several photos in a layout, export as video or Live Photo
· New brush — hand-draw shapes, text, and emoji that can animate
· More decorations — hand-drawn, painted, and glow fills, plus chandelier and garland shapes
· Live Photo export upgraded
· New guided tour
2.9.0 6d ago
· iOS 16 users can install again
· Pin Collage now supports iPad — reworked large-screen layout, smoother Apple Pencil writing
· Feedback now lets you pick the module and add a contact for follow-up
2.8.1 May 29
· New Recipe Plaza: presets and recipes you've received or shared, all in one place, one tap to apply.
· Fresh curated presets in PoP Emboss, ready to use.
· Fixed Pin Collage Live Photos resting on the video's first frame — now they rest on your still shot.
· Fixed shifted/warped video & Live Photo exports after cutout + mask.
2.8.0 May 27
New
- Shake to send feedback — shake the phone and a screenshot plus logs are sent to us automatically
- Journal perspective warp — drag any of the 4 corners to tilt your photo
- Journal Crop / Warp / Mask merged into one canvas-bottom dock with live overlay preview
- Journal snap guides — sticker and text drags snap onto the canvas center
- Journal aspect chip — top-right one-tap ratio switch, with new phone-wallpaper sizes
- Embosser share preview now shows the original photo (your photo is never uploaded)
- Embosser shared recipes localize built-in phrases and dates to the receiver's language
- App Store update check on launch
- Subject cutout entry added to "Line Online" in Paint
Improvements
- iOS 16 users can now install (Journal / Paint / CoolStuff are dimmed on iOS 16)
- Paint eraser actually erases (no more black smear)
- Paint freeze frame consistent across draft / PNG / eyedropper / thumbnail
- Paint Live export failure fixed
- Journal outline preview fix and fonts bundled with the app
- Recipe import "extra umbrella" race fixed
- Japanese / Korean / Traditional Chinese translations completed
2.7.0 May 22
Cyber-wireframe (CoolStuff) tutorial overhaul:
- Each step now focuses on a single action — follow the hints to learn the flow
- Tighter highlights and arrows show exactly where to tap next
- Fixed "color requires two taps before advancing" and similar quirks
- Snappier step transitions, no more perceptible lag
- A celebration appears when you finish the tutorial
2.6.2 May 18
New
- "Cool Stuff" module launched — freeform photo collages: import a photo as background, drag frames / frame groups, swap an entire group's look in one tap, text / theme colors / B&W filter, PNG / Live Photo export. Comes with a 21-step onboarding tour
- New home-screen entry for Cool Stuff; the four module buttons now follow your system language (Chinese / English)
- Embosser: new chandelier distribution + cat paw shape + 4 garland shapes (flower / heart / star-outline / star-solid)
- Embosser: new chandelier mobile template; umbrella recipe now includes a galaxy paper-umbrella text combo
- Journal: 3 built-in presets replaced (#4 / #7 / #8)
- Paint: MP4 export restored — 6 seconds = 3 animation cycles
- Paint: Live Photo duration 2s → 3s, matching WeChat Moments / Xiaohongshu limits
Fixed
- Paint: undo / redo unresponsive after zooming into the canvas
- Live Photo: shapes no longer drift down with leftover rainfall animation after switching away from rain mode
- Live Photo: text added during keyframe editing now displays
- Embosser: opening older canvases no longer stutters the first frame
Polish
- Embosser: top toolbar's 8 buttons regrouped for a tighter layout; ? and Home button swap positions
- Live Photo: secondary buttons (mode / group / reset) enlarged for easier taps
- Live Photo: picker simplified with auto-preview
- New spin animation for shapes / cutouts, kept in sync between shape and cutout layers
2.6.0 May 12
New creative module Line Online, entered directly from a home-screen chip.
- Brush & path: free strokes, eraser, sticker brush; auto path correction (line / circle / arc, least-squares fit); Catmull-Rom and Chaikin curve smoothing; tap-drag dominant-direction mode for triangle / square / circle.
- Shapes & stickers: 54 built-in stickers with multi-select capsule sheet; 60 mutually-exclusive emoji slots; unified mask shapes (house / tooth / garland, etc.); color-block mask + auto aspect + cutout.
- Photo base (multi-image): multiple photo layers across 8 templates; free 4-corner crop; lock / black-and-white / opacity slider; pinch / pan / aspect cycling; independent photo undo stack.
- Text: B / I / U toggles; three layout states; vertical typesetting; new fonts; per-tab deletion.
- Motion: batch strip adjustments; project-level motion; marquee streaming; dedicated speed slider.
- Drafts & recipes: auto-snapshot and persistence; bottom inline horizontal cards replacing modal sheets; isolated template slots.
- Visual system: full redesign — stainless ground, brushed-steel grooves, hot-pink outline, fabric active state; recessed buttons; 3D undo key; theme switching.
- Toolbar: multi-color / fill / vibration in brush bar; four top toggles for motion vs. stroke; in-line eyedropper in ColorPicker; inline horizontal strips for shapes / emoji.
- Export: redesigned export sheet; image downsampling.
- Performance: backing-image cache; cutout cache; multiple stutter root causes fixed.
- Localization: full zh-CN coverage for the Line Online module.
2.5.0 May 11
- Journal: text editing redesigned with IG-style keyboard toolbar — color, font, size in one row
- Journal: brush panel converted to floating bar, pencil default thickness increased, brushing no longer triggers layer gestures
- Journal: shape panel supports 2-row layout, default outline thickness increased, dashed visibility improved
- Journal: pattern color / density / opacity split into tabs, custom color panel floats
- Journal: doodle layer "continue drawing" button repositioned to center
- Editor top bar: 8 buttons evenly distributed (undo / redo / settings / home / preview / drafts / recipes / export)
- Drafts shortcut added as yellow pill next to Recipes
- Recipe code errors now hint module (Embosser / Journal)
- Fixed photo shift when replacing recipe photo
- Fixed white bars on iPhone 11 Pro Max / SE status bar
2.4.2 May 8
New
- New "Rain" Live animation mode: decorations fall from above, mixable with random decoration themes
- New "Number Badge" shape for journal decorations
- 14 new shapes added to the random decoration pool
- Custom font import from Files app (.ttf / .otf), with floating text bar showing imported fonts
Fixes
- Stickers and photos in merged layers no longer drift on export (PNG / Live / MP4)
- Stickers in merged layers no longer disappear in Live Photo / MP4 output
- Shared recipe preview now shows stickers inside merged layers (works for previously shared recipes after update)
- Re-uploading the same recipe no longer leaves an empty placeholder card at the bottom of "Sent"
- Newly shared recipes now appear at the top of "Sent"
- Live Photos exported from this app are correctly recognized as Live when reused as a sub-photo
- Decoration preview top-layer stickers no longer swallow taps
2.4.1 May 6
New
Recipe codes: in Journal you can now save a collage as a short code and send it to a friend — they get your exact layout, colors, and decoration recipe with one tap. Codes never carry your original photo or private doodles. Five built-in preset recipes ship with the app to get you started.
Reworked highlighter, crayon, and pencil: highlighter uses true darken blending so overlaps stay vibrant instead of washing out; crayon now has fiber grain and pressure texture; pencil reads Apple Pencil pressure on a two-stage curve, sketch to bear-down in one stroke.
188 new stickers and a new Frame category: Polaroid-style cutouts let taps pass through their hollow center to decorations underneath when unselected, then snap to bbox dragging once selected.
Improvements
A loading screen now bridges photo picker → editor so the app never looks frozen.
Sticker thumbnails warm up at launch, eliminating a 4-second hitch on cold start.
Library defaults to newest-first sorting.
Fixes
Outlines disappearing on certain shapes on iPhone SE.
Live Photo and MP4 occasionally freezing on the last frame or failing to save to Photos.
Long-press menu hit-test regression on iOS 17.
Crash on iOS 17.5.1 (SE).
2.4.0 May 5
Stability (highlight)
- Fixed crashes after subject cutout (Release-only pointer escape, was 100% reproducible)
- Fixed multiple image-processing parameter crashes (22 production incidents)
- Fixed outline rendering parameter overflow crashes on iPhone SE / iOS 17
- Fixed 5 additional pointer-escape vulnerabilities in color block / outline paths
- Fixed SDF outline rendering permanently stuck after a single failure
- Fixed GPU render failures poisoning the outline cache, breaking outlines for the rest of the session
Outline display
- Fixed outlines occasionally failing to load on iPhone SE
- Fixed torn-paper / rainbow / solid outlines missing from exported Live Photos / MP4s
- Fixed outlines missing from re-exports after memory pressure
Gestures / selection
- Fixed wrong layer being selected in stacked layouts
- Fixed unresponsive LIVE badge button
- Rewrote long-press layer menu for reliability
Library
- Default sort changed to creation date (a SwiftUI selection-targeting issue on iOS 26 surfaced when the previous "recently edited" mode reordered items)
- Sort refreshes immediately after closing the editor
Crop / Mask
- Fixed crop becoming inactive after switching chip / reset
- Subject-cutout recenter + progress feedback + retry on failure
Editor entry
- Added loading screen to bridge size picker → canvas (previously caused ~6% of users to return to home, mistaking the gap for unresponsiveness)
Live Photo / video export
- Fixed static layers sandwiched between Live layers being skipped
- Fixed outline padding misalignment on non-square photos
- Fixed outline Y-axis offset in Live / MP4 exports
2.3.1 May 3
WalkColor — Major Update
Performance & Stability
- Exporting multiple Live Photos at once no longer fails, even on 4 GB to 8 GB devices (iPhone 11 / 12 / 16 Pro Max).
- Journals open faster, with smoother loading of multiple photos.
- Smart and manual cutout no longer freeze on large photos.
- Fixed outlines occasionally not showing after switching between projects.
- Cutout, lasso, and brush no longer break from accidental rapid taps.
- The last edit before closing the editor is now safely saved.
- Outlines stay smooth on large canvases and complex pages, with much lower memory use.
- Fixed an iOS 26 toolbar overflow issue.
Accuracy & Visuals
- After cutout, the subject stays where it was, instead of jumping away (and returns to place when the cutout is removed).
- Photos pre-cropped in Apple Photos no longer get squashed into the original aspect when exported as Live or MP4.
- Lined, grid, and dot paper textures now match the preview when exported on landscape canvases.
- Outlines now look consistent across layers of different sizes.
- Outlines stay centered on large photos.
- Dashed and torn-paper outlines no longer get clipped by the photo edge.
- Live Photos paused on the canvas export as a still using the paused frame.
Features & Polish
- Smart cutout and photo import now show a centered progress indicator.
- The "All" export failure dialog offers a "Retry failed" action.
- Manual cutout and mask-crop editors loop Live Photos so you can see the moving subject.
- Filter layer outlines now export correctly.
- Refined outline slider ranges: solid 9–100 pt, rainbow rings 5–12 with width 5–34 pt, dashed ≥ 10 pt, torn paper ≥ 11 pt, glow intensity ≥ 0.3.
2.3.0 May 3
Improved user experience A LOT!
2.1.5 May 1
Fixed some UI bugs
2.0.1 Apr 30
WalkColor 2.0 — Introducing Pin Journaling
What's new
New: Pin Journaling
A brand new creative mode alongside the original Embosser. Compose
freely with 8 layer types: photos, stickers, text, shapes, dot patterns,
speech bubbles, filters, and brush doodles. 1092 built-in stickers across
7 categories, plus custom sticker import from your photo library.
Includes lasso freehand cutout, smart cutout, and mask cropping.
Export as PNG, Live Photo, or video.
Home redesign
Two creator tiles (PoP Embosser / Pin Journaling) stacked vertically,
with an animated 9-flower background.
Embosser updates
New shapes added to the decoration row: clover with heart petals, apple,
and upward arrow. The classic three-ridge candy is back. Notes now
support fill styles. Enter/exit feels consistent with the Pin module.
2.0.0 Apr 29
· New decorations: umbrella, duck, and four-point star
· New block styles: galaxy, classic and tiny polka dot, and 9 paper textures
· More reliable recipe code import — older codes restore cleanly
· Smoother Live Photo entrance pacing
1.5.4 Apr 27
New: Vintage Print block style — vertical gradient with paper grain
texture, comes with its own curated soft color palette and is now
part of the random recipe set.
Fixes:
- Sequential Live export now shows decorations popping in one by
one with visible rhythm, even when there are many of them.
- When Live source is short and there are many decorations, text
and trailing decorations no longer get cut off — exports now play
through all entrance animations completely.
- Dual Live export (primary and secondary both Live Photos) renders
blocks and decorations more stably — no more grain flicker.
- Decorations stay within the secondary photo bounds when the
canvas is expanded.
- Manual thought-bubble and music-note placement coordinate fixes.
- Batch-moving decorations now respects auto-vs-manual sources for
more intuitive editing.
- Secondary photo cutout default off, per-shape cutout toggle,
canvas unlock gesture polish, and other editor refinements.
1.5.3 Apr 25
This update addresses several issues with decoration layout and Live entrance animations:
- Fixed an issue where decorations only landed on the secondary photo region and failed to spread evenly across the full canvas
- Fixed an issue where manual Thought / Music layouts shifted onto the secondary photo and snapped back to that position whenever a slider was adjusted
- Fixed an issue where the secondary Live Photo stayed static after export when placed off-center
- Fixed an issue where manual decorations were out of step with automatic decorations in random Live mode
- Cutout is now off by default when a secondary photo is added; a one-time hint appears the first time it is turned on
- Batch move is now managed independently for the auto and manual decoration groups
- When the canvas is unlocked and zoomed in, a single-finger drag now pans the entire canvas
- Smoother dragging and pinching when the secondary photo is sized small
- Streamlined button labels in the floating text editor (Bold / Shadow / Cutout)
1.5.1 Apr 24
- Secondary Photo — Overlay a second photo with 5 placement presets (top / bottom / left / right / center), free drag / pinch / rotate, and Live Photo source support
- Entrance Animations — MP4 & Live Photo exports now animate decorations onto the canvas with four play modes: sequential, burst, scan, or custom
- Photo Duplication — One-tap vertical or horizontal mirror of your main photo for split-panel layouts
- Curated Random Recipes — Hand-picked combos like rainy red umbrellas, rainbow sprinkles, mood-word scatters, and food-word thought bubbles
- More Decorations — 7 new shapes (sprinkles, candies, fireworks, bows, lightning, flowers, clovers) and new distributions (music flow, thought bubble, symmetry, ring)
- Text Upgrades — Vertical layout toggle, 7 new cute downloadable Chinese fonts, and an "Added Text" chip list to quickly select any text on the canvas
- Settings Menu — The new gear button in the top bar groups language, drafts, and the user guide
- Polish — Live mode auto-recommends per distribution (starred), accessibility font support, main photo auto-locks when a secondary is added, plus many rendering and performance fixes
1.5.0 Apr 23
What's new:
• Fixed unresponsive top-right nav button at larger text sizes
• Fixed truncated labels in English at accessibility text sizes
• Crisper shape decorations when exporting low-res photos
• More accurate Live Photo export preview
• Full English / Japanese / Korean translations
• Tuned random preset parameters for better composition balance
1.4.9 Apr 20
1. Fixed bugs & UX experience
2. Added something you may love
1.4.1 Apr 18
Fixed a Bug
1.3.92 Apr 16
New
- Live Photo support with import, export, and dual-tile playback
- One-tap random template that swaps colors, decorations, and layout
- Floating toolbar on shape or text selection for quick color / font / size edits and delete
- Decorate panel split into Auto / Manual / Canvas / Actions sub-tabs with swipe
- Tap any slider number to type a value directly
- Custom canvas background color for areas beyond the photo
- New frosted-glass block style
- Full dark mode support
- Two-finger canvas pan
- Composition template picker also available in the Photo panel
- Switching shape type now preserves positions instead of redistributing
- Simpler palette layout with deletable custom colors
- One-tap canvas reset and photo auto-locks after upload
- Draft box shows count, storage used, and Live Photo markers
- Tap on canvas outside the photo to deselect
Fixed
- New photo requiring a drag before it appeared
- Canvas requiring a zoom before panning worked
- Occasional crash when importing Live Photos
- Live Photo export rotation and copy-mode stretching
- Text bold / shadow / cutout toggles misbehaving
- Decoration clustering at high size variance
Other
- Dynamic Type accessibility support
- Better localization (English / Japanese / Korean / Traditional Chinese)
1.3.9 Apr 16
· Live "Rain" intro adds a fade-out — pick settle or fade
· DIY: adjustable color-block width and decoration center-snap
· Redesigned feedback page — check for updates, pick a module, find the author
· Fixed Live export hanging on the lock screen and not saving to your album
· Fixed Live photos getting stretched or squished after export
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