A photo app for iPhone and iPad

Frames for your photography.

By a photographer, for photographers.

Decks helps your photos and videos look their best on Instagram and Threads. Start with a template, add text or camera details, and customize every detail.

Try Decks on TestFlight

Available in beta · iOS and iPadOS 18 or later

Choose a background and frame.

Use white, black, or a blurred version of your photo. Add a border and choose its color and width.

An In-N-Out Burger restaurant centered on a white background — White background

A baseball game framed in white on black with its Fujifilm X100VI camera and exposure details below — Black background, white border

A basketball hoop among autumn leaves with a white border over a blurred photographic background — Blurred background, white border

An espresso being prepared, framed with a black border on white — White background, black border

Two autumn woodland photographs with white borders on a blurred photographic background — Two photos on a blurred background

A black-and-white baseball photograph with a native Kodak Tri-X film-style border on a white background — Film border

Photographs by Brian Renshaw. All examples made with Decks.

Start with a template.

Decks walks you through the choices. Pick a layout, choose a size and frame, then add your photos or videos.

Choose a layout
Start with one photo, a few photos together, or a panorama.
Choose a size
Use a vertical, horizontal, or square page for the post you have in mind.
Choose a frame
Keep it plain, use a film border, or leave the frame off. Add your own photos next.

Once your photos are in, you can change any of these choices in the editor.

Include your camera details.

Put the camera, lens, and exposure settings beside your photo, beneath it, or over it. Each photo can have its own details, even when several share a page.

Decks reads the information from your photo. You can also insert it into a caption or add your own camera and lens details for film photographs.

An autumn landscape beside its real camera, lens, and exposure details — Details beside the photo

A rainbow photograph with a camera card showing its real camera and exposure settings — Details over the photo

A sunset photograph on black with a white border and its real Sony α1 camera, lens, and exposure settings below — Details beneath the photo

Food and pizza photographs on one page, each with its own camera and exposure details — Each photo’s own details

These examples use the photographs’ actual camera settings. Choose which details appear and where they go.

Write your captions in one place.

Write captions and add camera details. Your captions stay with the project.

Copy a caption, switch to Instagram, and paste it into your post. Come back to Decks for the next one. The Caption Sheet keeps track of which captions you’ve copied.

Decks introduction showing a framed camera photograph, its caption with a copy button, and Save to Photos — Save your photos, then copy your captions.

Make a template of your own.

Save a frame you like and use it for the next set of photos. Create a template from scratch, edit one you’ve saved, or duplicate it to try a different layout.

Use it from Apple Shortcuts.

Your saved templates work with Apple Shortcuts. Select photos in Apple Photos, run a Shortcut with your template, and save the framed results back to your library—without opening Decks.

Run it from Shortcuts, Siri, or the Action button. To use it in the Photos share sheet, add the Decks Templates shortcut and choose your template.

How to set up a Shortcut

A coffee-shop photograph framed with the reusable white-border template — A saved template keeps the layout and frame ready to use again.

Photos and videos together.

Use the same layouts, frames, text, and camera cards with photos and videos. Trim a clip in the editor and save it alongside your photos.

Adjust your frame.

Adjust borders and backgrounds, crop and position your photos, or add text and a logo. Start with the basics and open the finer controls when you need them.

More features.

Frames and layouts

Choose a page size, arrange multiple photos, and adjust individual margins. Backgrounds can use a solid color or a blurred version of your photo. Film borders, shadows, and outlines give you more options.

Panoramas

Split a photograph across linked pages for a carousel. Preview the full panorama and the Threads feed crop before exporting.

The Scripps coastline split into four linked panels in the native Threads panorama preview

Text and camera details

Move, resize, and rotate text on the page. Use system fonts or fonts installed on your device, add a logo, and choose which camera details appear and in what order. Save your camera and lens information in My Gear for photographs without those details.

Saving and sharing

Save photos as JPEG or PNG and videos as MP4, or use the share sheet. Still photos export at 1440 pixels wide by default. Decks prepares the files; you post them in Instagram, Threads, or another app. You can also export a contact sheet.

Your library and privacy

Projects and templates stay on your device. Optional iCloud sync keeps them available on your iPhone and iPad. Exports remove GPS and contact metadata. Read the privacy policy for the full details.

Try Decks.

Available in beta for iPhone and iPad. I’d like to hear how it works for your photography.

Made by Brian Renshaw, photographer and developer.