The Best Scrapbooking App Is Here: Layout a Day!

The Best Scrapbooking iPhone App in the World!

I know, I know… of COURSE I’m gonna say it’s the best… after all, I’ve spent over 18 months developing this, invested enough cashola to buy a Dodge Dart, worked with a crazy Australian developer who hacked my website and threatened to delete my entire iTunes library (just think of all those lost CSI episodes…!)

But it’s finally here. And I’m not joking when I say it’s coolio.

Here’s what makes the Layout a Day App different:

There are currently only 75 scrapbooking-related apps in the Apple App Store.

36 are paid, between $.99 and $10.99 for download. The Layout a Day App is FREE!

17 are digital scrapbooking apps that allow you to create pages on your phone. The Layout a Day App is all about inspiration and works for paper, hybrid, or digi scrappers!

11 are photo/video editors that allow you to add effects to your photos on your phone. The Layout a Day App helps you scrapbook your photos the way YOU want!

The remaining apps are ebooks, magazines, blog news feeds, and stash inventory tracking… all useful, but WHERE IS THE INSPIRATION? Oh, it’s right here:

Isn’t it cute?

Here’s how it works. You download this FREE app from the Apple App Store. Each and every day of the year you’re served up a short tidbit of inspiration: A photography challenge, a design idea, a page topic. Then you use that as a springboard to create the pages you want to document the stories you have to tell! Here’s an example:

You can then post the prompt to Facebook or Twitter, or email to a friend. And you can go back and look at previous days’ prompts using the archive feature.

Easy-peasy!

Here are some ways to use this app:

-As a jumpstart for your “scrap-blocked” moments when you want to create but you just don’t know where to start.

-As a timed challenge for yourself. Set your timer to 30 minutes and see what you can do!

-As a group challenge – get together with some friends near or far and commit to creating a page a day for a week, or on the first of the month, or whatever. Upload your creations to your Facebook page and keep up on what you’re doing!

-As your own personal “Layout a Day” (LOAD) challenge. We’re doing a group challenge in February (and again in May!) but if you missed those, you can set yourself up for your own LOAD using these prompts. (NOTE: The LOAD challenges in Feb. and May include many other features, such as themes, message boards, daily videos, daily sample layouts, and more. The prompts served up through the free Layout a Day App are NOT the same ones used during the monthly LOAD challenges.)

-As a way to recruit your non-scrapping friends. You can send them the daily prompt and say, “Wanna do this with me? Hunh? Hunh? Hunh?” When they see the cool things you create, they’ll be on their way to Archiver’s in no time!

FAQs:

Sounds cool! Where do I get it?

You can download the Layout a Day iPhone App for free here.

Will it work on an iPad?

Yes. It works on the iPad, iPad Mini, the iPhone, and the iTouch.

What about an Android app?

I’m looking into it! It will depend on how much it costs to convert from iPhone to Android. Stay tuned!

I love this but I’d like to see XYZ feature.

We’re looking at premium features! Please feel free to leave a comment on this post with your suggestions to include in future revisions.

I hope you enjoy this little daily taste of scrapbooking inspiration. Consider it my gift to YOU to help you get your most important stories documented.

Now go forth and scrap!