How to make your App Store screenshots
- Take your screenshots. Use a real device or the simulator. One per feature you want to sell — the first screen matters most, because it is the one almost everybody sees.
- Drop them in. Up to 10 at once, in the order you want them to appear. Drag the arrows under any preview to reorder.
- Tell the tool about your app. The name, one line about what it does, and optionally the key features. Headlines appear immediately, filled in from the built-in library — or let the AI write three options per screen on a paid plan.
- Pick a look. A template, a device frame, your brand colours and a font. Everything redraws as you change it, and you can override the frame or the headline on a single screenshot without touching the rest.
- Export. Tick the sizes you need and download one zip, already sorted into folders per store and device, each image at its exact pixel size.
A worked example
A habit tracker has three screens: a daily checklist, a weekly chart and a streak counter. Drop them in, type “Habitly — a habit tracker that shows your streaks at a glance”, and the library fills in “Everything in one place”, “See it at a glance” and “Your data stays yours”. Choose the Aurora template, set the background to the app’s indigo, and export. The zip holds three 1290 × 2796 PNGs ready for App Store Connect — about four minutes of work, and nothing was uploaded anywhere.
The templates
All 14 are free, on every plan. They are drawn by your browser rather than fetched as images, so they stay sharp at every export size and cost nothing to use — which is what makes the free tier genuinely free rather than a trial.
Panorama is the one worth a special mention: it paints a single wide picture and slices it across your whole set, so the backgrounds line up when a shopper swipes through them. Numbered puts a large step number behind each screen, which suits a walkthrough. On a paid plan, AI background paints custom art from your app’s description and colours.
Every size in the export
These are kept in a single list in the tool’s code, so when Apple or Google changes a requirement the export changes with it. Tick only the ones you need; each becomes its own folder in the zip.
Apple App Store
| Size | Pixels | Plan | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| iPhone 6.9" display | 1290 × 2796 | Free | iPhone 16 Pro Max, 16 Plus, 15 Pro Max, 15 Plus. Apple accepts this set for every modern iPhone, so it is the one size you cannot skip. |
| iPhone 6.5" display | 1242 × 2688 | Paid | iPhone 11 Pro Max, XS Max. Still accepted and useful if you support older devices. |
| iPhone 5.5" display | 1242 × 2208 | Paid | iPhone 8 Plus and earlier Plus models — the classic 16:9 home-button shape. |
| iPad 13" display | 2064 × 2752 | Pro | iPad Pro 13-inch (M4). Required if your app is available on iPad. |
| iPad 12.9" display | 2048 × 2732 | Pro | iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd–6th generation). |
Google Play
| Size | Pixels | Plan | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play phone | 1080 × 1920 | Paid | Google Play needs at least two phone screenshots. 16:9 portrait at 1080 × 1920 is inside Play’s 320–3840 px range on every side. |
| Play 7-inch tablet | 1200 × 1920 | Pro | Needed for your listing to be promoted on smaller Android tablets. |
| Play 10-inch tablet | 1600 × 2560 | Pro | Large Android tablets and Chromebooks. |
| Play feature graphic | 1024 × 500 | Paid | One landscape banner, shown at the top of your Play listing. Mandatory for every app. Keep text well inside the middle — the edges get cropped on some surfaces. |
Need the requirements rather than the tool? The App Store screenshot sizes guide covers counts, formats and the rules that get uploads rejected.
Pricing
Free costs nothing to run, so it is not a trial with a timer: it is the templates and the headline library, for as long as you want them. Paid plans add the AI, every store size and the watermark removal.
| Free | Launch Pack $9.00 one-time |
Pro $19.00/month |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Sign-in | Not needed to try | Yes | Yes |
| Apps (projects) | 1, not saved | 1, saved | 10, saved |
| Screenshots per export | 3 | Up to 10 | Up to 10 per set, unlimited sets |
| Headlines | Built-in library, no AI | AI-written, unlimited | AI-written, unlimited |
| AI backgrounds | None — templates only | 20 credits | 100 credits a month |
| Languages | English | 3 | 30+ |
| Export sizes | iPhone 6.9" only | All iOS and Android phone sizes | All sizes, including iPad and tablets |
| Watermark | Yes | No | No |
| Daily export limit | 3 | None | None |
| Access length | Unlimited, within those limits | 12 months | While subscribed |
Out of background credits? A $5.00 top-up adds 20 more. Launch Pack credits stay usable for the full 12 months; Pro credits reset each billing month and do not roll over.
Try it free first — no card, no sign-up.
Build a setWhat makes a screenshot set convert
Store screenshots are not documentation. They are read at thumbnail size, in a list of competitors, by someone deciding in about two seconds whether to tap. A few things reliably help:
- Lead with the benefit, not the feature. “Track every habit in seconds” beats “Habit list view”. The AI headline writer is prompted this way, and the built-in library is written this way.
- Two to five words. Anything longer is unreadable at the size it is actually shown. The tool shrinks a long headline to fit rather than letting it overflow, but short is better than small.
- Put your best screen first. Apple shows up to three screenshots in search results and Google Play two or three. Screens four onwards are only seen by people who already swiped.
- Keep one visual idea per screenshot. A screen that shows three things at once reads as nothing.
- Stay consistent. One template, one font, one palette across the set. Panorama takes this furthest by running a single background across every screenshot.
And a few things to avoid
- Fake five-star ratings, award badges or download counts — both stores can reject these, and they do not help.
- Device frames with the wrong hardware for the size you are uploading. The tool picks the right frame per size automatically, so an iPhone 5.5-inch export gets a home-button phone rather than a notch.
- Text crammed to the edges of a Play feature graphic. Play crops it on some surfaces, which is why the feature graphic layout here keeps everything well inside the middle.
What stays on your device
Screenshots of an unreleased app are sensitive, so this tool is built so they never need to leave your browser. The images are read locally, drawn on a canvas, zipped with JSZip and handed to your downloads folder. Our server is involved twice: once to ask what your plan allows you to export, and once more only if you press an AI button — and then it receives the headline text, never the pictures.
That is also why a saved project restores your settings, headlines, template and colours but asks for the image files again. There is nowhere for us to have kept them.
Limitations
- Up to 10 screenshots per set, 25 MB per image, PNG, JPG or WebP.
- Rendering happens in your browser, so a large export — ten screenshots across five sizes and three languages — will take a minute or two and a fair amount of memory. The progress bar counts real files, not guesses.
- App preview videos are not generated; this tool produces still screenshots and the Play feature graphic.
- Translated headlines are machine-written. They are good enough to ship for most apps, but have a native speaker read them before a major launch.
- An AI background is abstract art, not an illustration of your app. It is deliberately prompted to leave the centre calm so your screenshot stays the subject.
Troubleshooting
My screenshot has bars down the sides
Its shape does not match the frame — for example a 16:9 screenshot in a modern iPhone frame. The gap is filled with your screenshot’s own edge colour so nothing is cropped. Switch “Screenshot fit” to “Fill the frame” if you would rather lose a few edge pixels.
App Store Connect rejected the image size
Check you uploaded the folder matching the device you selected in Connect. The 6.9-inch set goes under iPhone 6.9-inch; Apple will not accept it under a different display size.
The headline is smaller than I expected
It was shrunk to fit the space. Shorten it to four or five words and it will jump back up — which also makes it readable at the size the store actually shows.
I paid but the plan still says Free
The unlock is granted by a signed webhook from LemonSqueezy, which usually lands within seconds. The page checks for it automatically; if it has not appeared after a minute, reload. Your set is kept either way.
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