Borderz
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Every photo
deserves a frame

Borderz is a free iOS app that adds a clean, adjustable border around any photo — any width, any color. A photo in a frame reads differently than a photo on its own.

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Borderz app open on an iPhone next to a film camera, showing a framed photo ready to share
Up close

A little edge changes
how a photo reads.

The same photo, with a border, stops feeling like a screenshot and starts feeling like something you chose to show.

Photo of a mountain against a blue sky with a terracotta border, exported from Borderz
The concept

Every photo deserves a frame.

Museums and galleries have known this for centuries: a mat or border isn't decoration, it's what turns an image into a window. It gives the eye somewhere to land before the picture, and somewhere to rest after. Borderz brings that same idea to the photo in your pocket.

Focus

A border stops the eye at the edge instead of letting it wander off into the feed. Everything inside the frame suddenly matters more.

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Separation

On a white wall or a busy feed, a photo can bleed into its surroundings. A border gives it a boundary — and a little room to breathe.

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Presentation

The same photo, matted, looks considered — less like a snapshot, more like something chosen and shown on purpose.

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Expression

White keeps a photo quiet. Black gives it weight. A color pulled from the photo itself ties the whole thing together.

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The app

Three taps from photo to frame.

One screen to begin. One to adjust. One to share. Borderz stays out of the way of the photo.

Borderz start screen
Open. Pick.

No setup. No accounts. Borderz opens straight to your library.

Borderz editor, original aspect ratio
Frame it.

Choose Square or Original, drag the border width, and pick from eight colors or your own custom shade.

Borderz editor, photo fit into a square with white border
Share.

Export Low, Medium, or High resolution and send it straight to Photos, Messages, or Instagram — free, no account, no upload.

The ritual

A small habit of presentation.

Borderz wasn't built to be fast. It was built to make an ordinary photo worth a second look.

01

See it

The street, the plate, the view from a window. Any photo can hang on a wall — it just needs an edge to hang inside of.

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Frame it

Pick Square or Original, drag the width, choose a color. Watch the same photo start to look presented instead of just captured.

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Share it

Export and send it anywhere a photo goes — the frame travels with it, and the photo reads like it was meant to be seen.

Roadmap

Borderz is just starting.
New features and ideas are on the way.

We build slowly, in public. Here's what's shipped, what's next, and what we're dreaming about. Tell us what you'd like to see.

Now · v1.1

Shipped

  • Square & Original aspect ratios
  • Adjustable border width
  • 8 preset colors plus a full custom color picker
  • Low, Medium & High resolution export
  • Smart captions in Auto, Split & Free layouts
  • Four caption typefaces with auto-fit & size control
  • Border & text color suggestions sampled from your photo
  • Center Photo for symmetrical borders with captions
  • Fullscreen pinch-to-zoom preview
Later · dreaming

On the horizon

  • Batch framing for multiple photos at once
Let's give every photo a frame.
Release notes

What's in Borderz.

We ship slowly, in public. Here's the first release — and everything in it.

1.1 Available now Smart captions, color suggestions, and a fullscreen preview.

Borderz 1.1 adds captions to the frame, plus color help and a better look at your finished photo. Here's everything that's new.

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Smart captions

Add a caption in three layouts — Auto, Split, or Free — so text sits naturally in the border around your photo.

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Four typefaces

Sans, Serif, Rounded, or Mono, with text that auto-fits the space — or fine-tune the size yourself with a slider.

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Color suggestions

Borderz samples your photo and suggests border and text colors that already belong together.

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Center Photo

Keep the photo centered with symmetrical borders on every side, even with a caption in the frame.

Fullscreen preview

Tap your photo to open it fullscreen, then pinch to zoom in on the details before you export.

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Improved editor layout

The preview now stays fixed in place while the controls scroll beneath it, so you can keep an eye on your photo as you adjust.

1.0 Available now Every photo deserves a frame — free, from day one.

Borderz 1.0 is a small, focused app that does one thing well: it puts a clean border around your photo. Here's everything it can do.

Square or Original

Fit your whole photo into a square for the grid, or keep its original aspect ratio intact — both get the same clean border treatment.

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Adjustable width

Drag a single slider from a hairline to a wide gallery mat. Watch the border update on your photo in real time.

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8 colors, plus your own

White, black, cream, and five accents cover most photos. Need something specific? Pick any color with the full color wheel.

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Three export sizes

Low, Medium, or High resolution, so your export is sized right whether it's headed to a story or to print.

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Instant share

One tap sends your framed photo to Photos, Messages, Mail, or any app on your phone through the standard iOS share sheet.

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Completely free

No account, no subscription, no locked features. Every tool in Borderz is available to everyone, from the first open.

Support

We are here for you.

Write any time and you'll hear back from us, usually within a day or two.

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Bug, feature idea, or just hello.

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Is Borderz really free?

Yes. There's no Pro tier, no subscription, and no in-app purchase. Every border, color, and export size is available to everyone, always.

Where are my photos stored?

Borderz doesn't keep a library. Your photo is framed on your device the moment you open it, and exists only while you're working with it. When you export, the finished image goes to your Photos or wherever you choose to share it — entirely under your control. There is no Borderz server.

Does Borderz collect analytics?

No third-party trackers, no advertising SDKs. We get crash reports through Apple's built-in mechanism only if you opted in at the system level.

What export sizes are available?

Borderz exports at Low, Medium, or High resolution — up to the full resolution of your original photo — so you can pick whatever fits where it's going.

How do I delete my account?

There is no account to delete — Borderz has no sign-up. Uninstalling the app removes everything.