Help & FAQ
Framescrll makes a single wide design and slices it into the separate square images a carousel needs — so a banner, a background or a photo can run continuously across several slides and line up when someone swipes.
Getting started
Make a decorated board in four taps
- Photos — import your pictures first. Anything already on the canvas gets pinned to the board automatically.
- Edit → Backgrounds & Decorations → Scenes → Party Board.
- Type your message, choose how many slides, pick a theme, and press Apply preset.
- Export from the menu, and share all the slides at once.
Changing how it looks afterwards
- Boards, garlands and extras live under Backgrounds & Decorations. Tap one to add or swap it — there is only ever one board, so picking a new one replaces it.
- Colours are edited in the same panel. Picking a scheme affects new pieces; press Use these colours on everything to repaint what is already there.
- One piece at a time — tap it on the canvas, then open the Selected tab.
Frequently asked
Why did my banner stop spanning when I changed the slide count?
Boards, confetti and streamers follow the canvas automatically. A garland with lettering cannot, because each letter is its own layer pinned to a flag — widening the garland alone would strand them. Use Refit scene to N slides in the Decorations panel, which rebuilds the garland and its lettering together. It is offered rather than automatic because rebuilding discards edits you have made by hand.
How do I resize several photos at once?
Arrange Photos → Select all photos, then use Resize together. Match sizes makes them equally large while keeping each photo's own shape; Match to identical boxes forces one rectangle and crops to fit.
What resolution do exports come out at?
Each slide exports at the full size of the frame you chose — 1080 × 1350 for Instagram Feed, 1080 × 1920 for Story, TikTok, Shorts and Snapchat, 1080 × 1620 for a Pinterest pin. Nothing is upscaled or resampled; decoration is drawn as vector artwork so it stays sharp.
How do I post a carousel to LinkedIn?
Use Download as one PDF, then upload that as a document post on LinkedIn. LinkedIn's swipeable carousel is a document post — uploading the slides as separate images makes an ordinary image post instead, which does not swipe.
Why does the export screen say TikTok needs at least 4?
Every platform has different limits, and they are easier to fix before you build than after a rejected upload. TikTok photo mode requires 4–35 images, Instagram and Threads take up to 20, Facebook 10, LinkedIn 9 as images, and X 4. Bluesky takes up to 4 but tiles them as a grid rather than a swipe. WhatsApp Status and Snapchat post each 9:16 image as its own status or snap, viewed in sequence. Pinterest has no organic carousel at all, so pins are posted one at a time, and YouTube Shorts has no image post — use the video export.
Can I print what I make?
Yes. The PDF export sets its pages at 150 DPI, so a 1080-pixel-wide slide becomes a 7.2-inch page that prints cleanly. For a bound book, see Photo books below.
Photo books
Favourites always make it in
If you've starred a photo in your phone's own photo app — the heart in Apple Photos, the star in Google Photos — the engine treats that as an instruction rather than a hint. Every favourite in the album goes into the book before anything else is chosen, even a photo the engine would otherwise have scored poorly; the best of your favourites becomes the cover; and a favourite always survives when a burst of near-identical shots is collapsed to one.
If you've starred more photos than the book has room for, the best-scoring favourites are used and the build step tells you how many didn't fit, so you can ask for more photos. Favourites are marked with a star when you're swapping or adding a photo in the editor.
This needs Android 11 or newer, or iOS. Where a favourite can't be read the book is built exactly as it was before — nothing is guessed at.
Building a book from an album
Open the app and choose Build a photo album from the start screen (File → Start screen brings it back if you've turned it off). Pick the book first — Hardcover, Softcover or Layflat, then a size — say how many photos, and choose an album. The engine analyses the album on your phone and picks the best shots; if it comes back with fewer than you asked for, that's because the rest were near-duplicate bursts, and it says so. Then choose the arrangement: Let the engine arrange (a chapter per day, each opening with its best shot), By date, or Random (shuffle again until you like it).
On a computer the app can't read your photo albums — browsers have no such thing — so instead you hand it the photos and it curates those. Choose photos… takes any selection (⌘A or Ctrl+A picks them all) and Choose a folder… takes a whole folder at once, which is usually what a trip is. It scores each photo for faces, sharpness and exposure, folds near-identical bursts down to their best shot, balances people against places, and keeps the best of them. Everything is read on your own machine; nothing is uploaded. Camera raw files and videos in a folder are ignored, and it tells you how many. Choosing the same folder again is close to instant — the scores are remembered on the device, so only photos it hasn't seen are analysed. The only parts that need the phone app are picking a photo album and reading which photos you favourited.
Books start at 24 pages. About 50 photos fills the smallest book; fewer than 22 leaves blank pages at the back, and the app tells you how many more would fill them. Above that it's roughly 2–3 photos a page — a 250-photo trip makes a book of about 100 pages.
Editing the pages
Open in the book editor and go page by page with the arrows or the strip along the bottom. Tap a photo to Swap it for one the engine passed over, Crop it (drag to reframe, −/+ to zoom), Move it to the previous or next page or its own page, or Remove it. Flip layout rearranges a page's photos. The cover takes a title, a subtitle or date, and a typeface; the back cover takes a line. Undo and redo are in the top right. Blank pages at the back only appear when there aren't enough photos to fill the minimum.
The … menu under the page holds everything that acts on the page rather than on one photo: add a page, add a chapter title page, add a photo, split a page into one page per photo, merge it with the next, move it left or right, or delete it. Roomy / Balanced / Full at the top changes how many photos share a page across the whole book, and the page count follows. Any page can take a caption.
The book itself can change too, without starting again: the control at the top naming the current book — say Hardcover A4 portrait 8.3×11.7" — opens the same binding and size chooser you saw at the start. Pick another and the pages re-flow to the new shape, which may change the page count; pages you placed by hand keep the arrangement you gave them. Undo puts it back.
Placing photos yourself
The engine keeps every photo at its own proportions and fits the page for you. When you want something else, open the … menu and choose Place by hand. Nothing moves when you switch — you start from the engine's arrangement — but from then on you can drag a photo anywhere on the page, resize it from the corners, tilt it with the round handle, and overlap photos however you like. A dashed line shows the print-safe margin: photos snap to it, and to the page's centre and to each other, but you can deliberately run a photo right off the edge for a full-bleed page.
With a photo selected you can also force its shape — Square, 4:5 or 3:2 instead of as shot — round its corners, or give it a border: a plain edge, a Polaroid margin, or torn paper. Let the engine lay it out in the same menu hands the page back; a page holding more photos than fit on one comes back as several pages rather than losing any.
Collage pages
Make a collage page in the … menu puts up to twelve photos on a single page — more than the engine will ever place on its own. Pick the photos, then choose Grid (even rows and columns), Mosaic (justified rows filling the page) or Scatter (tilted and overlapping), and Shuffle for a different arrangement of the same photos. The result is an ordinary hand-placed page, so you can nudge anything afterwards. Photos it displaces go back to the pool rather than being lost.
Keeping, moving and backing up a book
Every book you make is kept on this device and listed under Your photo books on the start screen, where you can reopen, rename or delete one. Starting a new book no longer replaces the last one.
The paper-plane button in the book editor does two things. Prepare a link sends the book to another device: the photos are packed into it, encrypted on this device, and the link works once and expires in an hour — the key travels in the link itself, so our server relays a book it cannot read. Save as a file writes the whole book, photos included, to a file you keep; there is no size limit and no expiry. On a phone it goes to your Files app (and the share sheet, so it can go to iCloud Drive or anywhere else); on a computer it downloads.
To bring one back, open Your photo books and choose Open a book file. An imported book is added alongside what you already have — it never replaces anything.
A file is also the only real backup. A book lives in the app's own storage, and on the web that storage can be cleared by the browser; a saved file is not.
Where is my book saved?
On the device, automatically, after every change. Close the app, come back tomorrow, and the start screen offers Continue your photo book. Like projects, it isn't synchronised anywhere — deleting the app deletes it.
Ordering a printed copy
Ordering is in testing and books are not on sale yet. The button is there and the whole pipeline runs — the app makes the print files at full resolution from your original photos, the price and shipping for your country are shown before you pay, payment is through Stripe, and our print partner prints and ships — but it currently runs against a test printer. The changelog will say when that changes. What ordering sends and for how long it's kept is in the privacy policy.
Where are my projects saved? Can I get them on another device?
Projects are saved on the device you made them on, and are not synchronised automatically. Deleting the app or clearing browser data removes them permanently. To move one project to another device, use File → Send to another device: it encrypts the project on your device and gives you a link and QR code the other device can open within the hour to pick it up. On desktop you can also sign in with an email link (File → Account & unlock); linking a second device to that account carries your purchases across devices, but it does not sync your saved projects — for that, use Send to another device.
Does the background cut-out send my photo anywhere?
No. The model runs on your device. On Android it is bundled inside the app; elsewhere the model file is downloaded once. Your photograph is never uploaded.
Why does the cut-out take so long?
It runs a segmentation model on your phone, which takes tens of seconds. It is working — the progress label updates as it goes.
Why is there a Framescrll mark on my export?
Free exports carry a small mark in the corner. Removing it is what the paid unlock buys. It is deliberately kept out of the artwork and off the middle of the picture — the free version is meant to be worth posting, not spoiled.
I already paid on iPhone or Android — how do I remove the watermark on web or desktop too?
The App Store/Play Store purchase is tied to that one device by default, but it can be carried to web and desktop by linking them to the same optional account:
- On web (framescrll.com) or desktop, open File → Account & unlock and sign in with your email (no password — you'll get a sign-in link).
- Still there, click Link another device to show a QR code.
- On your phone, open the app and scan that QR with your camera. It links the phone to the same account — no sign-in screen appears on mobile, that's expected.
- On the phone, open Export and tap Use this purchase everywhere. This sends your purchase receipt to be verified and attaches it to the account.
Once that's done, signing into that account on web or desktop unlocks watermark-free exports there too. This is entirely optional — the app works fine on one device without ever creating an account.
Can I export a video?
Yes — Export / download → Export as video. Two kinds:
- Pan across glides along the whole strip as one unbroken image. This is the one worth having; it is only possible because your design is a single wide canvas rather than separate slides.
- Slide by slide holds on each slide in turn, the way someone swiping sees it.
You choose a pace, not a length, and the length follows from how far the camera has to travel. That is what stops a long carousel flying past too fast to watch. Loop seamlessly wraps the end back to the start so it plays as a continuous stream.
Why does the video take a couple of minutes?
It renders every frame on your device and encodes them with your phone's own video hardware. Nothing is uploaded. A fifteen-second pan is nine hundred frames, so it takes a while — the button shows a percentage and an estimate as it goes.
Where do saved videos go?
On a phone they are saved to your Movies folder, so they appear in Photos, and the share sheet opens as well. Saving a second video never overwrites the first — it becomes -2, -3 and so on.
Is there a quick way to lay photos out?
Edit → Arrange Photos → Auto collage, with three arrangements:
- Mosaic — justified rows filling the canvas edge to edge, no gaps.
- Scatter — varied sizes and a little tilt, never overlapping.
- Pile — photos thrown on a table, deliberately overlapping.
Shuffle re-rolls the arrangement, and the result stays put until you ask for another.
Two photos overlap and I can't select the one underneath
Press and hold on the spot. A list appears of every layer under your finger — tap one to select it, or use the arrows on each row to move it in front of or behind the others.
Why is my photo cropped the way it is?
When a photo has to fill a shape that isn't its own, the app works out which part to keep by looking at the picture — and if it finds faces, it frames on those rather than the middle. You can always override it with the crop controls in Selected.
How do I move around when zoomed in?
Pinch to zoom. Once you are closer than the whole canvas fits, drag on the dotted area to move around, or drag with two fingers anywhere. One finger on a photo moves the photo.