10 monthly recap ideas

  1. Calendar cover: a month calendar over your favorite photo, with the best day circled.
  2. One photo per week: four or five slides, each labeled Week 1, Week 2 and so on.
  3. The month in numbers: kilometers run, books read, coffees drunk, set in big type over photos.
  4. Top songs of the month: your most-played tracks as now-playing cards beside photos from the moments they soundtracked.
  5. Places of the month: a map or a list of every city, cafe or park, each with a small photo.
  6. Firsts: the first swim, the first snow, the first night out of the month.
  7. Color of the month: a palette pulled from your photos as the cover, then the photos it came from.
  8. Outfits of the month: cutouts of your favorite looks on a plain background.
  9. Unposted: the photos that never made it to Stories, finally in one place.
  10. Next month: end with one photo and a line about what you are looking forward to.

Calendar and recap templates

Keep a monthly recap easy

  • Create an album in Photos at the start of the month and drop favorites into it as you go.
  • Reuse the same template every month so the recaps line up as a series on your profile.
  • Post in the first few days of the next month, while the memories are still fresh.