Masterpieces, taped together on your kitchen table.
You don’t need an art gallery budget or a print shop in Paris. You already own a phone camera, and a printer in the next room that can spit out twenty-five sheets in an afternoon. The only hard parts are the math, the scissor work and the tape — so the app does the math and labels the seams.
$0.99, once iPhone & iPad Requires iOS/iPadOS 26.2+ No ads No tracking All on-device No easel required
01 — Why
Vincent painted sunflowers to brighten a room before a friend came to stay. You want a six-foot cutout of your cat because the framed print won’t arrive until Thursday. Same impulse, worse turnaround.
Large-format printing is a shop you have to go find, a file you have to prepare correctly, forty dollars a square foot, and a week of waiting. It’s the right answer for a trade show booth. It’s an absurd answer for a birthday party, a leaving present, or a joke that will be funny for about nine days.
Meanwhile there’s a printer in the next room that can produce a sheet of paper every four seconds, and a photo on your phone that’s already big enough.
Nothing has been stopping you except the arithmetic. Which sixteenth of the picture goes on which sheet, how much overlap you need to glue it, how many inches wide the thing actually ends up, and which of the twenty-five identical-looking pages on your kitchen table is row three, column two.
1 photo → 25 sheets Cardboard Cutout does all of that arithmetic, then prints the answers onto the pages themselves. You supply the tape.
02 — How it works
There’s no project file, no export settings, and nothing to sign into. Pick an image and you’re already three taps from paper.
Anything in your library. If it’s smaller than the size you’re asking for, the engine sharpens and upscales it rather than handing you jagged pixels.
Drag the slider from a single page up to a ten-page-wide mural. The page count and the finished dimensions in feet and inches update as you drag — or type the width you need and let the app solve for the scale.
Tap Create Cutout and the on-device AI lifts the subject off its background, draws a dotted cut line around it, and works out a flat bottom edge so it can stand. Leave it off and you get a straightforward rectangular wall poster.
AirPrint straight from the phone, or save the whole thing as a PDF for a printer somewhere else. Every sheet carries its own row and column label, printed inside the glue margin where the finished poster hides it.
03 — Screens
Six shots from the app, in the order you’d meet them.
Paper size, orientation, scale. The page count and the finished dimensions sit beside the slider and change as you drag it, so the size is a decision rather than a surprise.
Point the camera at the floor and the standee is standing on it, at exactly the height it will print. Cheaper than finding out after twenty-five sheets of ink.
Posters snap flat to the wall, cutouts stand on the floor — the app knows which of the two you made and places it accordingly. Hang it beside the art you already own and the size argument settles itself.
The background removal has no idea what a person is supposed to be. Pets, props, furniture, a painting on an easel — if it has an edge, it gets a cut line.
Any AirPrint printer, straight from iOS. No desktop step, no driver, no exporting to a laptop first. Or save the lot as a PDF and print it somewhere else.
Every page says where it goes, in plain type inside the overlap margin. Drop the stack and you can still rebuild it. Trim along the dotted line and the label disappears under the next sheet.
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04 — Features
Poster mode tiles a rectangle. Cutout mode lifts the subject off its background and gives it an edge you can cut. Most of the rest of the app exists because a poster made of twenty-five separate pages fails in twenty-five specific ways, and each one has to be handled.
Apple’s Vision framework lifts your subject off the background — a person, a pet, an object — and draws a precise dotted cut line around the edge. No razor-blade brinkmanship, no accidental ear-lopping. It happens on the device, in the time it takes to look up from the screen, and the photo never goes anywhere.
A cutout with a curved bottom rolls over. A physics pass finds the center of mass and drops a flat baseline underneath it, so your standee doesn’t faceplant off the mantel. Tape a triangle of card to the back and it stays up.
Add text in a choice of fonts, with emoji. Face detection anchors the bubble straight to the mouth or above the head, rather than leaving you to nudge it around by eye. Let your cutout announce the drinks, or mutter something existential.
Set how much padding sits around the subject and what color it is — white, black, or any hex value you like — with a dotted cut line so the trimming is obvious.
A continuous slider from one sheet to a ten-page-wide wall mural, with the page count and the real finished dimensions updating as you move it.
You know the wall is 48 inches. Give the app the width or the height you need and it solves for the scale — no dividing anything by 8.5 in your head.
US Letter, Legal, Tabloid (11×17), Executive and Half Letter; A3, A4 and A5; B4 and B5. There’s a margin-less toggle too, if you have a borderless photo printer and want the white edge gone.
Every sheet gets its row and column stamped inside the overlap area — the part you glue and the next page covers. Foolproof to assemble, invisible when it’s done.
Blow a phone snapshot up to five feet and it will go soft. High-quality filtering and sharpening are applied automatically so it goes soft rather than blocky, which is the difference between a poster and a mistake.
Print directly to any AirPrint printer from the phone. Or export the tiled document as a PDF through the iOS print dialog and send it to a Mac, a PC, or a print shop.
A twenty-five-sheet poster at full coverage will drain your yellow faster than Vincent painting sunflowers. Ink Saver lays down a crisp CMYK halftone across the image — a retro dot screen that reads as intentional, keeps the color and the legibility, and puts far less ink on the page. Fitting, for a portrait he built out of dabs in the first place.
View in Room places the finished piece in your actual space at true 1:1 through ARKit. Cutouts stand on the floor, posters snap flat to the wall — check the proportions against the real framed art you already own, before anything goes to press. Tap the shutter for a photo, hold it to record a video.
Background removal, face detection, tiling and scaling all run locally. HoneyWired operates no server for this app and holds no account for you — there is no upload step to opt out of, because there is no upload.
No third-party trackers, no advertising libraries, no usage telemetry. One purchase, and then the app is simply a tool you own.
05 — Pricing
One purchase, every feature, on every Apple device signed into your account. No subscription, no unlock tier, no consumable credits for the AI, no ad you have to watch to remove the watermark. There isn’t a watermark.
The paper and the ink are between you and your printer.
$0.99 once
US price · iPhone and iPad
06 — FAQ
One purchase — $0.99 in the US, the local equivalent elsewhere. There are no in-app purchases, no subscription, and no ads. Every feature listed on this page is in the app the moment you download it.
iPhone and iPad, running iOS or iPadOS 26.2 or later. One purchase covers both. There is no Mac or Apple Vision version — this is a phone and tablet app, built as one.
It uses Apple’s on-device Vision framework to find the person, pet, or object in your photo and separate it from the background. The app then adds a border in the color and width you choose, draws a dotted cut line around the outside, and calculates a flat bottom edge so the finished piece can stand up.
All of it happens on the device. The photo is not uploaded anywhere, and there is nowhere for it to be uploaded to.
No. The cutout is faithful to the whole head contour — jaw, sideburns, both ears. Vincent would be relieved.
Two ways. The app shows the finished dimensions in feet and inches next to the scale slider, updating as you drag. And tapping View in Room puts the poster or cutout into your actual space through the camera, at true 1:1 — a cutout stands on the floor, a poster snaps flat against the wall.
You can take a photo of it there, or hold the shutter to record a video.
Ordinary office paper is fine for a wall poster, though card stock holds up better and won’t show the tape through from behind.
For a free-standing cutout, card stock is the minimum, and paper on its own will not stand up no matter how good the base is. Glue the assembled piece to foam core board or corrugated cardboard, cut around the line, and tape a triangle of the same board to the back as a kickstand.
Every page prints with a dotted cut line and an overlap area beyond it. Trim along the dotted line with scissors or a craft knife, apply tape or glue to the overlap, and lay the next sheet on top.
The overlap on each page carries a small printed label — ASSEMBLY: Col 2 of 5, Row 2 of 5 — so a dropped stack is an annoyance rather than a disaster. Once the next sheet is down, the label is underneath it.
No. Any inkjet or laser printer that supports AirPrint will print directly from the phone. If yours doesn’t, save the tiled document as a PDF through the iOS print dialog and print it from a computer, or take it to a copy shop.
Borderless photo printers get one extra option: a margin-less toggle that removes the white edge from every sheet.
Ten pages wide, with the height following the aspect ratio of your image. On US Letter that’s roughly seven feet across; on A4 or Tabloid, more. A full-height standee of an adult is usually four or five sheets wide and five or six tall — somewhere between twenty and thirty pages.
A large poster at full coverage uses a lot, yes. That’s what Ink Saver mode is for: it applies a CMYK halftone dot screen across the image, which keeps the colors and the subject readable while putting substantially less ink on the paper. Up close it looks like newsprint. From across a room, which is where a life-size cutout is looked at, it looks like the photo.
Less terrible than you’d expect. The app applies high-quality resampling and sharpening as it tiles, so an image that’s short of pixels goes gently soft rather than turning into visible squares. A phone photo taken in decent light will make a convincing life-size cutout; a screenshot of a screenshot will not.
It is office paper and tape. It is not going to hang in the Rijksmuseum in a hundred years — it is going to be very funny at a birthday party on Friday, and that is a different brief.
If you want it to last longer than the party, card stock mounted on foam core holds up for years, and a poster kept out of direct sun will outlast your interest in it.
Yes, and the big collections make it easy — a great many museums publish their out-of-copyright works at full resolution, free. Those files arrive enormous. The self-portrait in this app’s icon can be downloaded at over 6,000 pixels on its short edge, which is more hallway than most people have.
One honest note on the arithmetic: the ninety-nine cents buys the app. The ink is between you and your printer, and a twenty-five-sheet mural is not a ninety-nine-cent afternoon. That is exactly what Ink Saver mode is for.
No. Background removal, face detection, tiling, scaling and halftoning all run locally on your device. HoneyWired runs no server for this app, holds no account for you, and has no analytics or advertising code in it.
07 — Privacy & Legal
Cardboard Cutout is built to work with no network connection at all. That is not a privacy feature bolted on afterwards — it is how the app is put together.
Last updated: March 10, 2026
Background removal and facial landmark detection — the latter used only to position speech bubbles — run entirely on your device through Apple’s local Vision framework. Your photos and any facial data derived from them are never collected, transmitted, or uploaded.
We do not collect, store, share, or transmit your personal data, your photos, or any record of how you use the app. All image processing, slicing and scaling happens locally.
The app asks for Photo Library access for two reasons: to let you choose an image to print, and to save snapshots and videos you capture in View in Room back to your camera roll. We cannot see your library, remotely or otherwise.
View in Room needs the camera to run the augmented reality session and find your floor or wall. The camera feed is not recorded or transmitted; it is drawn on your screen and discarded.
There are no third-party analytics, tracking pixels, crash-reporting services, or advertising SDKs in this app.
Found a bug, hit a printer that won’t cooperate, or want something the app doesn’t do yet?
Email support@honeywired.com and you’ll get a reply from the developer, not a ticket number.
It helps to mention your device and iOS version, the printer and paper size you were using, and what happened.
Cardboard Cutout is a paid application. Buying it grants you a non-exclusive license to use it on the iPhones and iPads signed into your account, for as long as you like. There are no advertisements and no further in-app purchases required to unlock anything.
You are responsible for the content you choose to print. HoneyWired LLC makes no claim about, and takes no responsibility for, the copyright status of images you process with this tool.
The app is provided “as is”. We support standard AirPrint devices, but cannot guarantee behavior on every printer model, driver, or paper handling quirk in existence.
This application is licensed under the standard Apple End User License Agreement. By downloading it, you agree to the Apple Standard EULA.
HoneyWired LLC reserves all rights not expressly granted to you.
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