Free App Store Screenshot Generator for iPhone Apps

Paste your App Store link into the generator above and click Get Screenshots, or drop your own screenshots onto it. Each screen becomes one App Store slide: a short headline and your screenshot inside an iPhone frame, on a background you choose. Edit the headlines, pick Text on Top or Text at Bottom, and click Download All Screenshots. You get one ZIP with every slide at 1320 x 2868 pixels, numbered in order and ready for App Store Connect.

That is the whole job of this App Store screenshot generator. It is not a design app with a hundred panels. It makes the kind of screenshot set most iPhone apps on the store already use, a benefit line above a framed screen, and it makes it at the exact pixel size Apple accepts. You do not need Figma, a template file or a designer, and you never create an account.

The size matters more than people expect. App Store Connect accepts a fixed list of pixel sizes, not a range, and refuses files with transparency. The default export, 1320 x 2868, is one of the accepted portrait sizes for the iPhone display group Apple calls Dynamic Island, large display, according to Apple's screenshot specifications. The same page says that if your interface looks the same across devices, you only provide the highest required resolution and App Store Connect scales it down for smaller iPhones.

Spreadcast built this tool next to its iPhone mockup generator because both draw the same iPhone. Spreadcast uses that frame every day in the social posts it designs for app makers when they ship a new version. The screenshot generator is free on its own. Under the result you will find a card that hands your App Store link to Spreadcast, if you also want each update posted for you.

Most screenshot makers start with an empty canvas and a request to upload files. Here you can start with the listing you already have. Paste a link such as apps.apple.com/us/app/yourapp/id123456789 and the generator reads your public App Store listing, the same page anyone can open. It loads up to 10 iPhone screenshots in store order, your app's name and icon, and your description.

The headline drafts come from that description. Many apps already write their features as short lines, often with a bullet in front, such as Track every habit in one tap. The generator picks lines of three words or more that are short enough to read on a slide, skips anything that looks like a link, a price or subscription terms, and puts them on the slides in order. The first slide gets your app's name when nothing better fits. You then edit every headline yourself, which you should do: a description line is written to be read in a paragraph, a screenshot headline is written to be read in a second.

The icon gives you the App Color background. The generator finds the main color of your icon and turns it into a gradient from a deeper shade at the top to the color itself at the bottom, so the set matches your brand without you typing a color code. If your icon is black, white or grey, App Color falls back to the average of its pixels, and Your Color lets you set anything else.

Why load screenshots that are already on the store? Because the most common reason to open a screenshot generator is a redesign of an existing set. You keep the screens, change the words, the layout and the background, and upload a new set with your next version. For a brand new app, drop the files from your simulator or device instead. Either way, the headline you write is the part that matters most.

Apple's screenshot specifications accept .jpeg, .jpg and .png files, and add one line that catches many developers: images cannot include alpha channels or transparencies. A PNG saved by a browser canvas carries an alpha channel even when every pixel is solid. Upload one and App Store Connect may refuse it with an error that does not say why.

A JPG has no alpha channel at all, so the generator exports JPG at high quality. The difference in sharpness at 1320 x 2868 is not visible on a phone screen. If you ever need to check a file before you upload it, the free App Store screenshot size checker reads its pixel size and tells you which display group it matches.

The rule is one at minimum and 10 at most for each device size, per Apple's screenshot specifications. One screenshot is enough to submit an app. It is rarely enough to sell one.

Apple's page on creating your product page says that depending on their orientation, the first one to three screenshots appear in search results when no app preview is available. For a portrait iPhone set that means three slides do most of the work for people who never open your page. Treat three as the practical minimum and make each of them strong enough to stand alone.

Beyond three, add a slide only when it shows a feature or benefit that the first three do not. Stop adding when a new slide would repeat an earlier one. Ten slides of the same screen with different words read as padding, and people who scroll that far are already interested. The generator handles any number from one to ten, so the set can grow as the app does.

Keep the review rule in mind as you add slides. Apple's guideline 2.3.3 page evaluates the set for each device and approves it only if more than half of the screenshots show the app in use. A text only intro slide, a slide of press quotes or a slide of awards counts against that half. The remaining screenshots may use marketing material, the page says, as long as the majority still show the app.

The words on a screenshot are its headline, sometimes called the caption. Apple's asset best practices put it in one line: if you use text, use a short phrase that enhances your visual rather than describes it. A headline that says Settings Screen above the settings screen adds nothing. A headline that says Your Data Never Leaves Your Phone above the same screen gives a reason to care.

Short means short. On a phone, a screenshot in search results is a fraction of the size you design it at, so a headline of three to six words in a large weight reads where a full sentence turns into grey lines. The generator draws the headline as big as it can and shrinks it in small steps only when it needs more than three lines, which is a hint to cut words, not to accept small type.

Lead with a verb or an outcome. Track, Plan, Save, Learn, Split, Find. Then the object: Track Every Habit, Plan Meals for the Week. Numbers help when they are true and checkable, such as a count of recipes or languages you really offer. Leave out claims you cannot back up, because Apple's best practices warn against claims that cannot be verified and against adding awards your app has not received.

Use the words your customers use. If people search for budget planner, a headline that says Budget Planner That Adds Itself Up reads like the answer to their search. Keep the same words you used in your name and subtitle, which you can fit with the App Store character counter, and in the opening lines of your description, which the App Store description generator drafts from your listing. One message across title, subtitle and screenshots converts better than three different ones.

Write headlines in Title Case or sentence case, and pick one for the whole set. Apple's best practices ask for a similar visual style across all assets, including fonts, message and tone, so the slides look like one story when someone swipes through them.

Most strong screenshot sets share a structure. A headline at the top in a large weight, a device below it showing one real screen, and a background that stays the same or changes in small steps across the set. The generator builds exactly that structure, then gives you the three choices that change how it reads: where the text goes, what sits behind it, and the frame color.

Text on Top is the safe default. People read top to bottom, so the promise comes first and the proof second. Text at Bottom puts the screen first, which works when the top of your interface is the most striking part, such as a map, a photo grid or a game scene. Pick one for the whole set; switching between slides makes the set feel unplanned.

Backgrounds do more than decorate. A white background looks clean and close to Apple's own marketing, and it suits apps with colorful interfaces. Dark makes bright screens and Dark Mode screens glow. Sky and Sunset are soft gradients that work for almost any app. App Color ties the set to your icon, so people who see the icon in search and then the screenshots feel they are looking at one brand. The headline color follows the background automatically, white on dark and deep ink on light, so the words stay readable on every option.

Show Dark Mode if you support it. Apple's product page guidance suggests including at least one screenshot that shows the Dark Mode experience. An easy way is a Dark background on that one slide, or a Dark set with one light slide, both of which the generator can do: change the background, download the slide on its own, and put it in the ZIP.

Keep the frame consistent. The generator picks an iPhone with a Dynamic Island for modern tall screenshots and an iPhone with a home button for older 16:9 ones, based on the shape of each file, so mixed captures still fit. Choose one frame color for the whole set. For the reasoning behind frames, and when to leave them off, see the section on frames below and the iPhone mockup generator page.

When App Store Connect will not take a screenshot, the cause is almost always one of four things, and you can check them in this order.

First, the pixel size. A file that is a few pixels off, or was exported at 2x by mistake, matches no size on Apple's list. Drop it into the App Store screenshot size checker, which reads the real pixel size and names the display group it fits. Files from this generator are exactly 1320 x 2868, 1284 x 2778 or 1206 x 2622.

Second, transparency. Apple's specifications rule out alpha channels. A PNG exported from a design tool often has one even when nothing is see through. Save it as JPG, or use the JPGs from this generator.

Third, the slot. A 1206 x 2622 file belongs in the Dynamic Island medium display, not the large one. Put each file under the display size it was made for, which Media Manager lists.

Fourth, the version status. If the version is already waiting for review or live, the screenshots are locked until you create a new version or the status changes. Apple's upload help names the statuses in which uploads work. If App Store Connect says uploads are still in progress, give each file time to finish processing, reload the page, and check that every slot shows an image before you submit.

You do not have to guess which headline or background works better. Apple's product page optimization page lets you test up to three alternate versions of your product page against the original, with different icons, screenshots and app previews. A test runs for up to 90 days or until you stop it, and you choose what share of traffic sees a treatment.

That makes a screenshot generator more useful than it first seems. Make one set with Text on Top on White and one with Text at Bottom on App Color, or keep the design and change only the first headline. Upload the second set as a treatment and let real visitors decide. Apple's page notes that new metadata in a treatment must be approved by App Review first, and that tests without alternate icons can be submitted without a new app version.

Results show impressions, conversion rate, percent improvement and a confidence level for each treatment, and Apple recommends waiting for at least 90 percent confidence before you apply one. The page includes two case studies from Apple: Simply Piano saw a 3 percent conversion rate increase from one treatment over a 12 day test, and Peak Brain Training saw 8 percent from three treatments over 44 days. For what conversion rates look like across categories, see our App Store conversion rate guide.

Change one thing per test. If the second set has new headlines, a new order and a new background, a better result tells you nothing about which change caused it. Start with the first slide, because it shows in search and on the page.

A second use for extra sets is custom product pages. Apple's custom product pages page says you can publish up to 70 additional versions of your product page for iPhone and iPad, each with its own screenshots, promotional text or app previews, and each reachable through its own URL. You can also assign keywords to a custom page so it appears in search for those keywords instead of your default page.

The common pattern is one page per audience or campaign. A fitness app might send people from a yoga ad to a page whose screenshots lead with yoga, and people from a running ad to one that leads with runs. With the generator that is a matter of loading the same screenshots, reordering, rewriting the headlines and downloading again. Apple says the metadata on custom pages is reviewed, and can be submitted independent of an app update.

If you send traffic to custom pages from social posts or ads, tag the links so you can see which page brought installs. The App Store campaign link generator builds those links.

Apple's localization help says that when you add a language, its screenshots default to those of your primary language. So a French shopper sees your English headlines over a French listing until you upload a French set. For apps with real traffic in a few countries, translating the headlines is one of the cheapest improvements available.

The generator works in one language per set. Write the headlines in the second language, download, and upload the ZIP under that language in App Store Connect. Repeat for the next one. If your interface itself is localized, capture the screens in that language too, so the headline and the screen match. Tools with automatic translation across dozens of languages exist and are listed in the comparison below; for two or three languages, doing it by hand is quick and you control every word.

This generator does one set of things well: iPhone, portrait, one headline per slide, at the three iPhone sizes App Store Connect asks about most. It is honest to say where it stops.

It does not make iPad, Mac, Apple Watch or Apple TV screenshots, and it does not do landscape. If your app runs on iPad, you still need a set at 2064 x 2752 or 2048 x 2732 for the 13 inch display, and WaveSpeed, AppLaunchpad and AppScreens all list iPad sizes. It does not make Google Play screenshots either; a current iPhone screenshot is too tall for Google's ratio limit, so Android needs its own layout, as the screenshot sizes guide explains.

It does not translate headlines into many languages at once, draw panoramic backgrounds that run across several slides, or upload straight to App Store Connect. AppScreens covers all three on its paid plans, and Screenshots.pro translates automatically. It does not make app preview videos; our app preview video guide covers how those are made and what Apple allows. And it has one layout rather than a template library, which is a feature for a fast set and a limit if you want something unusual.

If you run screenshots through a build pipeline, fastlane's snapshot and frameit tools capture and frame them from the command line for free, and you can keep this page for quick redesigns and tests.

Many searches now ask for an AI App Store screenshot generator. This tool uses no AI model to draw or write anything. Your screens are your real captures, the frame is drawn in code, and the headline drafts are lines you already wrote in your App Store description, picked out by simple rules. That is deliberate: Apple's guideline 2.3.3 page warns against screenshots that misrepresent the interface, and a generated picture of an app is not a screenshot of it.

Where AI helps is with the words. If you want options for a headline, ask any assistant for ten three to six word phrases for the feature on that slide, then pick the one a customer would say. Keep it true to the app. The App Store description generator and the release notes generator do the same kind of drafting for your other store text.

An App Store screenshot template is a design file with the frames, text boxes and backgrounds already in place. In Figma, most are drawn in points and reach the upload size at 3x, so a 440 x 956 frame exports at 1320 x 2868. Our screenshot sizes guide lists the frame and export scale for every size. A template gives you full control over type and layout, at the cost of placing each screenshot by hand and exporting each size.

Canva is the other common route. When we opened Canva's template search for app store screenshot on October 28, 2026, the page was titled as having more than 20,000 templates, but most results on the first screen were Instagram posts, stories and app presentations rather than slides sized for App Store Connect. Check the canvas size of any template against Apple's list before you design on it.

A generator sits between the two. You give up custom fonts and freeform layout, and you get a finished, correctly sized set in minutes. Many teams use both: a generator for the first set and for tests, a Figma template once the product and the message have settled.

No. A frame is a design choice, not a requirement. Plenty of apps upload bare screens with a headline above, and some fill the whole slide with the interface. Apple's screenshot rules are about what the image shows and its size, not about frames.

Frames help in two ways. They tell a shopper at a glance that this is a phone app, and they give the screen a clear edge on any background, which matters on White and Dark. They cost a little screen size, because the frame and the headline take room the interface would otherwise use. The generator sizes the phone to about 72 percent of the slide height when there is a headline, which keeps the screen large enough to read.

Apple's marketing guidelines ask marketing materials to use Apple provided product bezels, or generic devices without details unique to Apple products, and to place copy beside a device rather than on top of it. The guidelines page does not say whether those rules cover screenshots on your own product page, and many approved listings use drawn frames. If you want the strictest reading, keep headlines off the phone, which the generator always does, and read our plain English summary of the marketing guidelines.

A screenshot set gets your app seen by people who are already in the App Store. Most people who would like your app are not searching for it today. They find apps in their feeds, which is why an update that only reaches the store reaches only the people who were already looking.

Spreadcast covers that half. Paste your App Store link once at the start page. Spreadcast keeps your icon, screenshots and colors as your brand and checks your listing every day. When a new version goes live, it designs an update post with your own screenshot in the same iPhone frame you see above, a headline with the version, and two or three points from your release notes. When you pass a rating milestone, it designs a thank you post with your rating. It writes a caption for each network and publishes to Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Facebook, Threads, Pinterest, Bluesky, Mastodon, Telegram and Discord, plus YouTube for video posts, after your one tap approval or on full autopilot.

The free plan designs 3 posts for you to download. Pro is $29 a month and includes the designs with no mark, captions for every network and publishing to all of them, with no per channel fee. Everything is on the features page and the plans. For the wider plan around a release, read our guide to App Store optimization and the app launch checklist.

The slides you make here are portrait 1320 x 2868, which is too tall for most feeds. For social posts, use the same screens in the iPhone mockup generator, which exports Instagram Post, Square, Story and Pinterest Pin sizes from the same App Store link. The social media image sizes guide lists what each network expects.

The best moment to post a screen is the day it changes. A new version with a visible feature is news for a day, and our app update announcement examples show how other apps word it. For a launch, the product launch post generator designs the first post, and our guide on how to get app downloads covers the channels around it.

Files you drop in are opened by your browser and drawn on a canvas on your own computer. They are not uploaded to Spreadcast or anywhere else, and they are gone when you close the tab. That matters for apps that are not released yet.

When you paste an App Store link, Spreadcast's server reads the public listing, the same information anyone can see on the App Store, and your browser loads the screenshot images from Apple's image server. Nothing is stored and no account is created. Downloads are built in your browser too, including the ZIP.