Combine Images Side by Side

Add two or more pictures to the box above, choose a layout and press the red button. The tool puts them next to each other, one under the other or in a neat grid, and gives you one new picture to download.

It is the quickest way to combine images side by side for a before and after post, a product comparison, a meme or a pair of screenshots. Everything happens in your browser, so your pictures are not uploaded anywhere.

There are three ways to merge images side by side or in other shapes. Side by side puts every picture in one row, from left to right. Top to bottom stacks them in one column. Grid places them in rows and columns, and you choose how many columns, from 1 to 10.

Pictures rarely have the same size, so the tool makes them match for you. In a row they get the same height, in a column the same width, and in a grid every cell gets the same size. The live preview updates as you change anything, and the exact size of the result is shown above it.

Nothing is cropped. Every picture keeps its full content and its own shape, so a portrait photo next to a landscape photo still shows everything.

Most sites that put two images side by side online send your photos to a server, process them there and send the result back. Here your own browser does the work, on your own device. That is faster for big phone photos, and it keeps private pictures private.

It works the same on Windows, Mac, Linux, Chromebook, iPhone, iPad and Android, in any modern browser. There is nothing to install, no account to create and no app to download.

When you join images side by side, the pictures need the same height or the row looks uneven. Under Same height you have three choices. Smallest (sharpest) makes every picture as tall as the shortest one, so nothing is ever enlarged and everything stays crisp. Largest makes every picture as tall as the tallest one, so smaller pictures are scaled up. Original sizes keeps every picture exactly as it is.

With Original sizes the pictures can have different heights. Alignment under More options decides whether they line up along the top, the centre or the bottom of the row, and the empty space is filled with your background colour.

Smallest (sharpest) is the default because it never makes a picture blurry. Choose Largest only when the pictures are already close in size.

To combine images vertically, choose Top to bottom. The pictures are stacked in one column in the order you set, and Same width gives them all the same width. As with rows, Smallest (sharpest) avoids enlarging anything, Largest scales the narrower pictures up and Original sizes leaves them alone.

A vertical layout suits tall phone screens, step-by-step guides, chat screenshots, recipe photos and a before picture above an after picture. With Original sizes, Alignment lines the pictures up on the left, in the centre or on the right.

Need one very long picture from many screenshots? Add them all, choose Top to bottom and set the gap to 0 for a seamless strip.

Choose Grid and type the number of columns. Four pictures with 2 columns make a 2 × 2 square, six pictures with 3 columns make two rows of three, and nine pictures with 3 columns make a 3 × 3 grid. If the last row is not full, it simply has empty cells in the background colour.

Every cell has the same size. Cell size decides whether the cells match the narrowest picture, which is sharpest, or the widest one. Each picture is fitted inside its cell without cropping, centred from side to side, and Alignment decides whether it sits at the top, centre or bottom of the cell.

For a free-form layout with many shapes and sizes, the Photo Collage tool gives you more templates. This grid is best when you want a clean, even look.

To combine images side by side on iPhone, open this page in Safari, tap Select images and pick two or more photos from your library. Choose Side by side, press Combine images and tap Download. The new picture can then be saved to Photos or shared straight away.

iPhone photos in HEIC format open without any setting, and every photo is turned upright automatically. The same steps work on iPad and on Android phones in Chrome, Samsung Internet or Firefox.

Phone photos are large, often 4000 pixels wide or more. For sharing in a chat or on social media, choose 2048 px or 1080 px under Longest side in More options. The result looks just as sharp on a phone screen and is much quicker to send.

Social posts often show two things at once: a look and a price, a dish and its recipe, today and ten years ago. To put two pictures together for a post, choose Side by side, set Same height to Smallest (sharpest) and choose 1080 px under Longest side.

Instagram, Facebook, X and LinkedIn all accept pictures of this size. Add a small gap and a white or coloured background for a framed look, or keep the gap at 0 for one seamless picture. If a site needs an exact shape, such as a square, use Crop Image afterwards.

Memes work the same way. Put a reaction picture next to or under another one, add captions, and you are done.

This page works as a simple before and after photo maker. Add the before picture first and the after picture second, then tick Add captions. The first picture is labelled Before and the second After, ready to use.

Captions can sit below the pictures, above them, or on the picture itself in white text on a dark, see-through box. That last style is popular for fitness progress, renovations, haircuts, makeup, cleaning, gardening, photo editing and skin care results.

For a fair comparison, take both photos from the same spot, at the same distance and in similar light. Choose Smallest (sharpest) so both pictures get the same height without blurring either one.

Tick Add captions (Before / After) and a small text box appears under every thumbnail. Type any caption up to 40 characters: a date, a price, a product name, a step number or a short joke. Leave a box empty for no caption on that picture.

Choose Below, Above or On the picture, pick a colour for captions below or above, and use the slider to make the text bigger or smaller. The text size follows the size of the pictures, so it looks the same in the preview and in the full size file. Captions use a clean bold font.

For longer text, styled titles or text anywhere on the picture, finish here and then open the result in Add Text to Image.

To stitch images together without visible joins, set the gap to 0, the border to 0 and the rounded corners to 0. The pictures then touch each other exactly, with no line between them. This works well for long screenshots, a scanned page in two halves or a wide view taken in several shots.

Keep in mind that this tool places pictures edge to edge. It does not blend overlapping parts the way panorama software does, so for a panorama, crop away the overlap first with Crop Image. To turn a long PDF into one tall picture instead, try PDF to Long Image.

To combine images without losing quality, keep Longest side on Full size and Same height or Same width on Smallest (sharpest). Then no picture is enlarged, and the result is drawn at full resolution with high quality smoothing.

Choose PNG under Format for a lossless file with no compression artefacts at all, which is best for screenshots, text and graphics. For photos, JPG or WebP at 90% or more looks the same to the eye at a much smaller file size. The default is JPG at 92%.

Scaling a picture down is always safe. Scaling a small picture up, which happens with Largest, cannot add detail that was never there, so it may look soft. If one picture is much smaller than the others, use Smallest (sharpest) instead.

The Gap slider adds space between the pictures, from 0 to 120 pixels, and the colour picker sets the background that fills the gaps and any empty space. White looks clean, black looks dramatic, and a brand colour suits shop and social posts.

Under More options, Border adds a frame of the background colour around the whole picture, up to 200 pixels. Rounded corners rounds each picture, from slightly soft corners up to fully round, which turns square pictures into circles.

For PNG and WebP you can also tick Transparent background. The gaps, border and rounded corners are then see-through, which is handy for slides, websites and designs placed on a coloured page. To cut a person or product out of its background first, use Remove Background.

You can add JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC and HEIF from iPhones, AVIF, GIF and BMP pictures, and mix them freely in one result. Animated GIFs use their first frame. To convert a whole folder of iPhone photos first, use HEIC to JPG.

Save the result as JPG for photos and the smallest files, PNG for screenshots, text and transparency, or WebP for websites. JPG and WebP have a quality slider from 50% to 100%. To make the finished file lighter still, run it through Compress Image.

With Name it after the layout ticked, the file is called combined-side-by-side, combined-vertical or combined-grid, so it is easy to find in your downloads. To put many pictures into one document instead of one picture, use Image to PDF.

The result is made at full resolution, up to 16,000 pixels on the longest side and about 120 million pixels in total. Browsers cannot reliably handle bigger pictures, so a very large result, such as many full size phone photos in one long row, is scaled down to fit these limits. The size shown above the preview is always the real size you will get.

On older phones with little memory, a large picture may still fail to save. If that happens, a message asks you to choose a smaller Longest side, such as 4096 or 2048 pixels, and try again.

You can add up to 50 pictures at a time. If you put them all in one row, a row of 50 photos becomes very wide, so a grid is usually the better choice for many pictures. If you need one exact pixel size, change it afterwards with Resize Image.

This tool lets you merge images side by side online free, with no sign-up, no watermark and no daily limit. Combine as many sets of pictures as you like, one after another.

There are no ads covering the tool and no paid version hiding the useful settings. Captions, transparent backgrounds, full resolution and every format are available to everyone.

Your pictures are not uploaded. Opening, arranging, drawing and saving all happen in your browser, on your own device, and the pictures are gone when you close the page.

The new picture is drawn fresh, so photo details such as the location where a photo was taken are not copied into it. That makes it safer to share before and after photos of your home or your body.

Each picture is opened by your browser and turned upright using the orientation stored by the camera. iPhone HEIC photos are decoded by a small library that also runs in your browser.

The tool then works out where every picture goes and how big it should be, draws them all onto an invisible canvas with high quality smoothing, adds captions and saves the canvas as JPG, PNG or WebP. The preview uses the same drawing, only smaller, so what you see is what you download.

Keep Smallest (sharpest) on unless you have a good reason to enlarge pictures.

Use PNG for screenshots and text, JPG for photos.

For before and after photos, shoot from the same spot in the same light.

When you join pictures for social media and chats, pick 1080 px under Longest side. Keep Full size for printing.

Use a grid rather than a very long row when you combine many pictures.