Instagram Launches Layout, an App for Photo Collages

Instagram has launched a new app that lets users create photo collages from images on their phone’s camera roll called Layout.

Like Hyperlapse before it, users can save these collages to their phone and then share them directly to Instagram or Facebook (or other places online). Layout has 10 different collage layouts depending on the number of photos used; users can include as many as nine pictures in one collage.

The company says that one in five of the app's 300 million monthly active users post collages — and it led the company to build Layout, its second standalone app, which launches today for iOS.

US first lady Michelle Obama posted a collage within hours of the app's launched on Monday.