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12 Months in Photos (a one-photo-a-month year collage)

Select a batch of photos and this page reads the date each was taken and sorts them into rows for January to December. Pick one photo per month and you get a 1080×1440 image of your year in a 4×3 grid. No app or sign-up, and your photos never leave your device.

Select your photos

They are sorted into January–December by the date taken. Up to 300 photos; you can also drop them here.

  1. Select photos (sorted by month taken)
  2. Tap one photo in each month’s row
  3. Save the 1080×1440 image
  • Photos never leave your device
  • The exported image keeps no EXIF data such as location

Tap a photo in a month’s row to use it for that month. Date? marks photos that may not be in the right month (no date taken, sorted by the file’s modified date).

Your image1080×1440 · 3:4

Exporting removes EXIF data such as location. Photos never leave your device.

How to Use

  1. Select a batch of photosPress “Select photos” and choose a year’s worth (up to 300, or drag them in). The page reads the date each was taken and sorts them into rows for January to December. Photos without a date taken get a “Date?” mark.
  2. Tap one photo per monthEach month starts with its earliest photo. Tap another photo in a row and the image on the right (below on phones) updates at once. Photos from other years are one tap away on the year buttons.
  3. Save the imageChoose a background (cream or black) and press “Save image (JPEG)” to download the 1080×1440 image. On supported phones, “Share image” sends it straight to a messaging or social app.

About This Tool

To sum up your year in one image, a general collage app makes you dig through a year of photos and place one in each of twelve frames by hand. This page reads the date taken of the photos you select and lines them up by month, so all that is left is one tap per month. The grid of month-labelled frames and the year band are drawn the same way every time (no free layout and no automatic picking).

The date taken comes from DateTimeOriginal in the JPEG’s EXIF data, read from only the first 128 KB of each file. PNG, WebP, screenshots and photos whose EXIF was stripped by a messaging app have no date taken, so they are sorted by the file’s modified date and marked “Date?”. These may land in the wrong month; on some phones the modified date is the moment you picked the photo, which puts every such photo in the current month. HEIC works only where the browser can display it (otherwise convert it with the HEIC Converter first).

The result is 1080×1440 pixels (3:4): a 4×3 grid from January onward, with the month in the top-right corner of each frame and the year in the band along the bottom. Photos are centre-cropped to fill their frame. A month with no photo becomes a frame with only the month name. The exported JPEG is newly drawn from a Canvas, so it carries none of the originals’ EXIF data, such as GPS location or camera model.

Reading, sorting and exporting all happen inside your browser. Photos never leave your device and are not kept on a server or in browser storage; closing the page discards them. With many photos, previews are made one at a time, so you can start picking as soon as a month is ready. There is no Instagram connection, automatic picking or video support.

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