How to Make a Digital Scrapbook on Your iPhone

Digital scrapbooking on your phone means you can build memory pages anywhere — on the couch, on a trip, in the five minutes after dinner. This guide walks through making your first digital scrapbook page in Nooka, from adding photos to styling the shelf it lives on.

What you need

Just Nooka (free on the App Store for iPhone and iPad) and a handful of photos. You don’t need a stylus, though one makes doodling nicer.

1. Start a new book

Open Nooka and create a book — think of it as the folder your scrapbook pages live in. Give it a name and a cover you like; you can change both later.

2. Add your photos

Add a new page, then import photos from your library. Drop a few in and don’t worry about placement yet — you’re gathering material first.

3. Cut out the parts you love

You rarely need a whole photo. Use the cutout tool to lift just the subject — a friend, a flower, a sign — so it sits cleanly on the page instead of inside a rectangle.

4. Layer, arrange, and resize

Drag cutouts and photos around freely, resize them, and stack them. Nooka’s canvas doesn’t force a grid, so let things overlap a little — that’s where scrapbook pages get their texture.

5. Add stickers, text, and doodles

Drop in stickers, type a short caption, and draw in the margins. Handwritten notes are what make a page feel like yours.

6. Style your shelf

When you’re done, your book sits on a shelf. Change the shelf colour, backboard, and planks so the whole thing feels like a little corner of your room.

Tips for scrapbooking on a small screen

• Work in layers. Build a background first, then add subjects on top.
• Zoom in to cut cleanly. A precise cutout makes the whole page look better.
• Less is more on one page. If a page feels crowded, start a fresh one next to it.
• Export to share. Finished pages export as images for messages or social.

That’s a full scrapbook page — photos, cutouts, doodles, and a shelf to keep it on. The more pages you add, the more your book turns into something you’ll want to flip through again.