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App Screenshot Builder — Create gorgeous images for your App Store page in minutes
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I dread the days approaching an app submission. Screenshots always seem to be the last thing to do and it takes FOREVER to make all those sizes and have them look good.
God bless you @mulligan for making this.
Thanks for making our workflow easier Brenden. With 50+ apps and 2-4 new ones a month, this will literally save us hours that I can now spend on Product Hunt making more comments.
@mulligan I was planning on making this over spring break (next week)! Had the UI/UX planned out. Although, I was planning on making it for both iPhone and Mac.
Great work though!
Thanks to everyone for their support and comments. After 800,000 screenshots, we just released Screenshot Builder Pro: https://www.producthunt.com/tech... // @kwdinc @shyrosenzweig @jblok2 @golocalapps @thomasmeagher @mrkyol @eddiedaroza @parterburn @cpuricelli @saijo_george @mikehlee_ @alexmarktl @tadmilbourn @brandwagon @jedipixels @adcooley @mignano @lauralynnz @virjog @jasongurwin @ilyashassani @mrkyol @rhoehn @rlalwani
About 4 months ago, we shared Sketch to App Store and you guys seemed to love it (500+ votes). Hopefully this will be even more appealing.
Screenshot Builder makes it easy to create gorgeous, custom images for your App Store page and export them in every resolution Apple requires. You don't need Sketch or Photoshop to use it. In fact, we built it so people don't need any design experience at all. Just point and click your way to beautiful App Store images.
We built this for two reasons:
1) We had a bunch of people telling us they'd bought Sketch specifically to use the template. This seemed silly and expensive.
2) A lot of organizations have product managers/marketers directing how these should look, but need the designers to actually create and update them. This will hopefully let PMs own the whole process themselves, freeing up designers to do more important (and interesting) things.
It's available for you guys first, so please please please please ask questions and send feedback. I'll be here answering questions all day. I’d love to know what you think of the onboarding, user experience, options, etc… Fire away!
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@mulligan love this, even simpler than before. Curious though, how do you guys handle your apps with lots of user generated content? Do you rely on your designers to come up with the mocks, or just 'frame' the shots on your own devices? And what if you don't have a 6+? Load the simulator up with user photos?
@adcooley
how do you guys handle your apps with lots of user generated content?
We have a demo account full of mock albums and photos. When it's time to take screenshots, we just log in there and capture that stuff.
Do you rely on your designers to come up with the mocks, or just 'frame' the shots on your own devices?
I do it all, and I'm the designer, but I just frame the shots.
And what if you don't have a 6+? Load the simulator up with user photos?
Log into simulator with demo account and Copy/Save Screen there.
@mulligan makes sense! We have some screens where we're dealing with the photos in the camera roll (not DL'd from the web). I've been loading demo photos into the simulator but then they aren't dated/geolocated correctly, blah blah blah. Making it work though.
Interesting technical note: We built this all with <canvas> in the browser, so it's literally WYSIWYG — there is no server-side image compositing at all. The "export" step re-renders the canvases in full resolution in the browser and uploads the client-rendered images so we can build and email a single .zip of them together. (As a result of this, editing is totally realtime, and you can use any font on your system that is accessible to the browser, and we minimize server-side load.)
@rhoehn so glad! we need to make it easier to share the screenshots you make :)
My favourite thing about this app is that it lets me actually USE it before asking me to sign up. I uploaded and edited one screenshot, then was asked to signup to continue adding more. At that point I gladly did sign up. Please let's make this the new model for onboarding for all other apps, rather than just making grandiose claims and forcing people to sign up or download something to do anything.
@jblok2 thanks. that means a lot. we care about it too and nice to know we got it right for you :)
This really does solve a problem for mobile devs. Nice job. I was just saying a couple weeks ago how useful a tool something like this would be. Some ideas...
1. Add a flat design phone with some color options
2. Add ability to overlay callouts
3. Add ability to slap on "stickers"
4. Add ability to upload a custom font?
5. Have you thought of a launch image builder, as well?
@brandwagon thanks so much for the comments!
1. Add a flat design phone with some color options
-- coming soon
2. Add ability to overlay callouts / 3. Add ability to slap on "stickers"
-- something we'll consider, but once people need to get that custom, our tool might be too simple for them
4. Add ability to upload a custom font?
-- you can't upload it, but you can use any font on your computer. when selecting the font, there's a box to the right of it where you can just type in a name of a font you have locally
5. Have you thought of a launch image builder, as well?
-- we have some other stuff on the way. not launch image specifically, but that's a good idea.
@mulligan sure thing. The launch image is really only applicable to iOS7, since you can now use responsive xib files. By the way, I just started using the Review Monitor. Also a great idea. I just tweeted my first review from it.
But what am I going to do with my folders of PSDs for creating all these images?! Won't they get lonely?
Seriously great work @mulligan. Will use this on our next app store update.
Really love it! Doing all the screenshots is a pain, and even if you need minor edits, all the back and forth is very time consuming. And then localization... We'll definitely use this from now on. Thanks @mulligan!
Just export about 250 screenshots with your Sketch tool! Great job for this one tho. I'll give it a try for sure! Keep it up @mulligan
@tcailhol Thanks Thomas. We think this is an improvement over the Sketch tool, but are excited for people to keep using that one.
@mulligan Are you guys planning to update http://sketchtoappstore.com/ or took the decision to focus on this new product?
Edit: Just tried "App Screenshot Builder" and man it's awesome.
@mulligan nice work. We're building something similar called http://appscreens.io which we hope to release soon!
@mulligan Love this, great product. This is going to save us so much time. Two questions:
1. Any plans for Android / Google Play support?
2. Do you plan to support localization / translation of screenshot copy?
@mignano
android support is on the roadmap, but since they dont require a bunch of sizes, it's not as big of a pain point.
as for localization, we've got some ideas there :)
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