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# The Best Vision Board Apps for 2027, Honestly
- URL: https://blog.gratefulness.me/best-vision-board-apps/
- Published: 2026-11-15T05:42:46.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-15T05:42:46.000Z
- Description: We read 717 recent App Store reviews so you don't have to. Here's what each vision board app is really like, and which to skip.
- Author: Team Gratitude
- Tags: #vision-board

Every January, the same thing happens. We decide this is the year. We open the App Store, type "vision board", and download the one with the prettiest icon. Twenty minutes later we've picked our goals, found the perfect photo of a beach, and the app asks for a yearly subscription to save it.

![A 2027 vision board with travel, health, family, home, growth and love photos, set as a phone wallpaper](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/24/51248a10-c63a-4113-b29e-b8a84047f4e4/content/images/2026/11/vb-apps-2027-lock-screen-board.jpg)

The goal: a board you see fifty times a day without trying.

If that's happened to you, you're not alone. We read 717 recent App Store reviews of the most popular vision board apps, and money was the number one complaint, by a long way: surprise charges, trials that billed early, and paywalls that appear once you've made the board. And in the happiest reviews? People loved apps that were easy, and that put their board in front of them every day.

So this guide is built around what those reviewers taught us, not around which app has the longest feature list. One thing to know first: we make two of the options below, a free web maker and the Gratitude app. We've tried to be fair, and where something else is the better choice, we say so.

## If you only read one part

- **You want a board tonight, free, no account:** a web maker like [ours](https://www.gratefulness.me/visionboard/?ref=blog.gratefulness.me), or Canva's free plan.
- **You love designing and have a laptop:** Canva.
- **You want it to feel like a Pinterest collage:** Shuffles, Pinterest's own free collage app.
- **You want reminders and affirmations that bring you back:** Vision Board ++ or Perfectly Happy.
- **You already journal, or want to start:** Gratitude.

## Three things that matter more than any feature

### 1\. Know the price before you make the board

Most vision board apps are free to download and paid to use. That's fair: apps cost money to make. What stings is finding out after you've spent an evening on it. Before you start, look for the "In-App Purchases" list on the App Store page, and if there's a free trial, set a reminder a day before it ends. Several reviewers across different apps said they were charged before they'd finished trying the app, and a few had trouble cancelling.

### 2\. Use your own photos

Built-in photo libraries look lovely in the screenshots, but your goals aren't stock photos. A board works when the beach is *your* beach and the kitchen is the one you've actually been saving on Pinterest. Check that the app lets you add photos from your phone and, ideally, from Pinterest. Trouble with photos was the next most common complaint we read.

### 3\. Put it somewhere you'll actually see it

This is the part nobody puts in the screenshots. A board you look at once is a nice afternoon. A board on your lock screen is a quiet nudge every time you check the time. Whatever you use, make sure it can save your board as a wallpaper, or show it in a widget. There's a short how-to at the end of this post.

| Option                  | What's free                        | To unlock everything (US)                              | Works on                             |
| ----------------------- | ---------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------ |
| **Gratitude web maker** | Everything                         | Nothing to unlock                                      | Any browser                          |
| **Canva**               | Free plan, many templates          | Canva Pro, $144 a year                                 | Web, phone, tablet, desktop          |
| **Shuffles**            | Free                               | Free                                                   | iPhone, iPad                         |
| **Vision Board ++**     | One board                          | Full Access, from $18.99 a year (several plans listed) | iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro             |
| **Perfectly Happy**     | A limited free version and a trial | $10.99 a month or $58.99 a year                        | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch            |
| **Dreamer**             | Some categories                    | Several plans, $7.99 to $24.99                         | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Watch, Vision Pro |
| **Gratitude app**       | Journal, affirmations, one board   | $6.99 a month or $39.99 a year                         | iPhone, Apple Watch, Android         |

Prices from each App Store listing and Canva's pricing in mid-November 2026\. They change, so check before you buy.

## The free web maker: for a board tonight, no strings

*This one's ours, so weigh our words accordingly.*

We built [this](https://www.gratefulness.me/visionboard/?ref=blog.gratefulness.me) because of everything above. You open the page and start. There's nothing to sign up for and nothing to pay. You pick the parts of life your year is about and write your goals the way you'd say them to a friend: "run a 10K in spring", not "optimise fitness".

![Choosing parts of life and writing goals for a 2027 vision board](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/24/51248a10-c63a-4113-b29e-b8a84047f4e4/content/images/2026/11/vb-apps-2027-maker-goals.jpg)

Step one: what do you want more of this year?

Then you add photos to each goal, from your phone, a Pinterest search or a whole Pinterest board you've already made. Your board is laid out for you in four looks, from scrapbook polaroids to bold edge-to-edge photos, and you can move anything you like after.

![The same photos laid out as a scrapbook board and a mosaic board](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/24/51248a10-c63a-4113-b29e-b8a84047f4e4/content/images/2026/11/vb-apps-2027-maker-looks.jpg)

Same photos, different moods. Pick the one that feels like you.

The part we're proudest of: one board comes out in every size you need, a phone wallpaper, a laptop wallpaper and an A4 poster to print, each laid out properly rather than squashed.

![One vision board laid out for a laptop, a phone and an A4 print](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/24/51248a10-c63a-4113-b29e-b8a84047f4e4/content/images/2026/11/vb-apps-2027-maker-sizes.jpg)

Laptop, phone and fridge, sorted.

**Good to know:** your board is saved in your browser, not on our servers, so it's private, but it stays in that browser. Download it when you're done so you don't lose it. It makes the board and stops there: no reminders, no affirmations. If you want something to keep nudging you, read on.

## Canva: for people who enjoy the making

If you've ever lost an afternoon nudging a text box two pixels to the left and loved every minute, Canva is your place. Its vision board search turns up more than 20,000 templates, and you can change every last thing about them.

![Canva's vision board template gallery](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/24/51248a10-c63a-4113-b29e-b8a84047f4e4/content/images/2026/11/vb-apps-2027-canva-templates.jpg)

A small slice of Canva's vision board templates.

The popular way to do it, and the one you'll see in a hundred TikToks: save photos on Pinterest, open a vision board template in Canva, swap in your photos, and download it in your phone's size for your lock screen.

**Good to know:** it's at its best on a laptop. On a phone, dragging lots of small photos around gets fiddly. Some templates and elements are marked Pro, which is $144 a year, though plenty of good ones are free. And a template is someone else's board until you've replaced every photo, which takes longer than you'd think.

## Shuffles: for a board that feels like Pinterest

Shuffles is Pinterest's own collage app. It rarely makes the "best vision board app" lists, but at least one YouTuber calls it the best digital vision board app, and we can see why. You cut objects out of photos with a tap, layer them up, and pull straight from Pinterest. It's free.

![Shuffles screens: Pinterest cutouts, cutting out an object, and a collage saved as a wallpaper](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/24/51248a10-c63a-4113-b29e-b8a84047f4e4/content/images/2026/11/vb-apps-2027-store-shuffles.jpg)

Cutouts, one-tap cut-outs and wallpapers. Screens: Shuffles' App Store page.

**Good to know:** it's a collage app first, so there's no goal-setting, reminders or prompts, just you and a blank canvas. You'll need to sign in. And in recent reviews, quite a few people said their saved wallpapers came out blurry, though some later reviews said this had been fixed. Check your saved image at full size before you set it.

## Vision Board ++: the one reviewers like most right now

Of the dedicated apps we looked at, Vision Board ++ had the happiest recent reviews: 127 of them averaging 4.6 stars. People love that it turns a board into a daily ritual. You can play your board as a short movie with music, record affirmations in your own voice, and put it on your home screen as a widget. One reviewer said that within a minute of thinking about the future, their mind usually drifts off to whether they started the dishwasher. This app keeps them on what they're working towards, which is about the nicest thing you can say about a vision board app.

![Vision Board ++ screens: a collage board, board movies and a home screen widget](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/24/51248a10-c63a-4113-b29e-b8a84047f4e4/content/images/2026/11/vb-apps-2027-store-vbpp.jpg)

Collage boards, board movies and widgets. Screens: Vision Board ++'s App Store page.

**Good to know:** the free version gives you one board, and the low reviews are mostly people who expected more for free. A couple of reviewers wanted a getting-started guide. iPhone, iPad and Vision Pro.

## Perfectly Happy: for affirmations with your board

Perfectly Happy is as much an affirmations app as a vision board app. Alongside your board you get more than 6,000 affirmations, a mood tracker and a gratitude journal, and it can turn your board into a video with music and spoken words. One reviewer said they keep it just for the rotating widget, which shows a new affirmation almost every time they unlock their phone.

![Perfectly Happy screens: making a board, a list of affirmations and home screen widgets](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/24/51248a10-c63a-4113-b29e-b8a84047f4e4/content/images/2026/11/vb-apps-2027-store-perfectlyhappy.jpg)

A board, daily affirmations and widgets. Screens: Perfectly Happy's App Store page.

**Good to know:** it's free to download, but most of it needs a subscription, and at $58.99 a year it's the most expensive of the dedicated apps here. A few recent reviews describe trouble cancelling, so set that reminder. One reviewer who wanted overlapping collage photos found it closer to a slideshow than a board, so if the collage look matters to you, look at Shuffles or a web maker first.

## Dreamer: for thinking it through first

Dreamer starts by asking you questions about what you want, before you pick a single photo. If you sit down to make a vision board and realise you don't actually know what you want this year, that's a gentle place to start. It has affirmations, reminders and widgets, runs on every Apple device including Mac and Apple Watch, and comes in 33 languages.

![Dreamer screens: a 2027 vision board, a Discover tab with palm analysis, natal chart and soulmate reports, and widgets](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/24/51248a10-c63a-4113-b29e-b8a84047f4e4/content/images/2026/11/vb-apps-2027-store-dreamer.jpg)

A board, the Discover tab's readings, and widgets. Screens: Dreamer's App Store page.

**Good to know:** Dreamer has grown into more of a self-discovery app. Its Discover tab now leads with palm analysis, natal charts, a portrait of your "soulmate" and other readings, which you'll either love or very much not. Its App Store page lists around ten different purchase options, and it's hard to tell what's free until you're in. Reviews are mixed: 44 recent ones average 3.8 stars, and one recent reviewer was unimpressed by the AI readings.

## Gratitude: for a board that lives with your journal

*Also ours.*

Gratitude is a journal and affirmations app with vision boards built in. You set goals for different parts of life, add photos and words, and play your board as a short video with music. The idea is that you see your board on the same days you write down what went well, so your big goals stay connected to ordinary Tuesdays. It's rated 4.9 by nearly 45,000 people on the US App Store, mostly for the journal.

![Gratitude screens: a vision board called Our first home together, and home screen widgets](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/24/51248a10-c63a-4113-b29e-b8a84047f4e4/content/images/2026/11/vb-apps-2027-store-gratitude.jpg)

A board and its widgets. Screens: our App Store page.

**Good to know:** the free version includes one board. More boards come with Gratitude Pro at $6.99 a month or $39.99 a year. If all you want is a board, the free web maker is simpler.

## A few we'd skip right now

These have good overall ratings, but those were mostly earned years ago. Recent reviews tell a different story:

- **Vision Board 2027** (the Feng Shui one): the last 130 reviews average 2.5 stars, mostly about trial charges and photos that won't load.
- **Vision Board & Goal Tracker:** 67 recent reviews average 2.7, and one reviewer found the free version allowed one board with a single photo.
- **Vizzy:** 44 recent reviews average 1.9, including paying subscribers who couldn't open their boards.
- **Visbo:** this one's ours, and we'll be honest: it hasn't had an update since December 2024\. Use the free web maker instead.

Apps change, and any of these could turn around. If you're curious, sort the App Store reviews by "Most Recent" before you download. It takes thirty seconds and tells you more than the star rating.

## The free version nobody sells you

You don't need an app at all. A piece of card, a glue stick and an evening with a friend is still one of the nicest ways to make a vision board. When you're done, take a photo of it and set that as your wallpaper. You get the joy of making it with your hands and the daily reminder of a digital one. If your friend brings snacks, even better.

## How to put your board on your lock screen

**On iPhone:** save your board to Photos. Open it, tap the share button, then *Use as Wallpaper*. Pinch to fit, and if the clock covers your favourite photo, move it down a little. Tap *Add*, then choose whether to use it on your Home Screen too.

**On Android:** save your board to your gallery. Press and hold an empty spot on your home screen, tap *Wallpaper & style*, choose your board from your photos, and pick the lock screen, home screen or both. The exact words differ a little between phones.

Then leave it there for a while. The point isn't to admire it, it's to bump into it.

## Questions people ask

### What's the best free vision board app?

For a completely free board with no account, a web maker like ours is the quickest. If you'd like to design it yourself, Canva's free plan and Shuffles are both free. Most dedicated vision board apps are free to download but need a subscription for more than one board.

### Can I make a vision board on my phone?

Yes. Every option here works on a phone. Shuffles and the dedicated apps are built for it, and our web maker runs in your phone's browser without installing anything.

### Is a digital vision board as good as a paper one?

The best board is the one you see. A digital board is easier to see every day, because it can be your lock screen. A paper one is more fun to make. You can have both: make it on paper, photograph it, done.

Whatever you pick, we hope your 2027 board ends up looking a lot like your 2027\. If you'd like help choosing goals and photos before you start, our [guide to making a 2027 vision board](https://blog.gratefulness.me/vision-board/) walks you through it.

*How we did this: in mid-November 2026 we read the 717 most recent US App Store reviews across the apps above (up to 150 per app), and each app's App Store listing. We made boards ourselves in the web tools, and those screenshots are ours. The phone app screenshots are the developers' own, from their App Store pages. Ratings and prices are what each page showed then.*