How to make App Store & Google Play screenshots for free

The screenshot gallery is the part of your store listing people actually look at. Most users decide whether to install in the few seconds they spend swiping through those images — long before they read a word of the description. A flat, raw capture undersells a good app; a polished, consistent gallery makes a small app look established.

You don't need a designer or a paid subscription to get there. With a free browser tool like Snapframe you can turn plain captures into a clean, store-ready set in an afternoon — and keep your images on your own device while you do it.

Know the sizes before you start

Both stores are particular about dimensions, so it pays to check the current requirements in App Store Connect and the Google Play Console before you export, since exact pixel sizes do change over time. As a rough guide, the App Store wants tall portrait images sized to specific device screens (and a 6.5" / 6.7"-class phone size is usually the safe baseline), while Google Play asks for a minimum dimension on each side and accepts both portrait and landscape. The practical takeaway: design tall, design crisp, and confirm the numbers against the official docs rather than trusting a screenshot from a blog.

Because Snapframe lets you control padding and export resolution, you can produce images at the proportions each store expects instead of cropping and hoping.

Build one screenshot you love

Start with a single capture and make it look great. Drop it into the Snapframe editor, then add a background — Smart Match can pull a gradient straight from your app's own colours so the styling already matches your brand. Wrap the capture in a frame, round the corners, and add a soft shadow so the image lifts off the page. The goal is one screenshot that already looks like it belongs in a store gallery.

Resist the urge to over-decorate. The UI is the star; the frame and background are there to make it look intentional, not to bury it.

Repeat the look across the whole set

This is where a free tool saves real time. Once one screenshot looks right, apply the same frame, background, padding and corner style to the rest. Snapframe lets you drop in a batch, style them consistently, and export them together — so a gallery of eight or ten images reads as one cohesive brand rather than a random pile. Consistency is what separates a professional listing from an amateur one, and it costs nothing here.

Keep it honest and private

Store guidelines — and basic fairness to your users — expect screenshots to show the real app, so style the frame and background freely but keep the UI truthful rather than faking features you don't have. And if a capture happens to contain a real name, email, or anything personal from test data, blur it before you publish. Snapframe's blur is baked into the export, so you can redact and beautify in the same pass, all locally, with nothing uploaded.

Free to ship, Pro when you need 4K

You can create a complete App Store and Google Play gallery for free in your browser, with your images never leaving your device. If you later want to drop the small watermark or export at up to 4K for the sharpest possible listing, Pro is a single $12 one-time payment — not a subscription. Either way, the styling that makes your listing look professional is free from the first screenshot.

Ready to build your gallery? Open the editor at /app, drop in your first capture, and you'll have a store-ready image in minutes.