Comparison · 10 min read · Checked August 2026

Screenshot Bro vs Previewed

Short answer: pick Previewed when the deliverable is a 3D device render, a panoramic banner or an animated promo video and you want to make it in the browser — Screenshot Bro has no video export at all. Pick Screenshot Bro when the deliverable is the store listing itself: every App Store and Google Play size, localized, exported at exact pixel dimensions and uploaded from the same project on a Mac. The two are used together more often than swapped.

Details about Previewed were checked in August 2026 on Previewed's own site and pricing page; pricing and features change, so verify there before deciding. If something here is out of date, tell us and we will fix it.

What each tool actually does

Previewed

Previewed is a mockup generator that runs entirely in the browser. Its pricing page describes three tiers as Free, Pay-as-you-Download and Subscription. Lite is free forever with unlimited 2D exports at 720p under a CC Attribution licence — the FAQ says free-plan assets are for personal use and must credit Previewed wherever they appear. Plus is $9.99 one time for ten exports at 1080p and above, and adds 3D exports, video at 30fps and a commercial licence; each download subtracts one export, a panorama counts as one, and purchased exports do not expire. Pro is shown at $19 a month on the annual plan, billed $228 a year, for unlimited exports, 60fps video and priority support. The page says annual billing saves 35% over monthly, but the month-to-month figure sits behind a toggle, so read it there before you decide.

The product covers 2D and 3D device mockups, 3D animations, panorama sets for App Store and Google Play, social-media templates, browser windows and a promo-video maker that the navigation marks as new and its own landing page calls alpha. Devices include iPhone, iPad, MacBook, iMac, Android phones and tablets, with flat, isometric and clay variants and "100s of fonts". The iPhone mockup page names iPhone 8, 11, 12, 13 and 14 Pro Max; I did not find iPhone 15, 16, 17 or Air on the pages I read. Exports are JPEG, PNG and MP4 (the template pages also list WEBM), saved templates are backed up in Previewed's cloud, and templates can be organised into groups that are shared with team members.

Screenshot Bro

Screenshot Bro is a native Mac, iPad and iPhone app (macOS 15.0+, iOS/iPadOS 18.0+) from the App Store, and it is only for store listings. A project is one continuous canvas of rows — one row per device size — with the individual screenshots as templates, so a headline or gradient can flow across two screenshots. It ships 81 language presets plus custom codes, on-device auto-translate through Apple's Translation framework for the languages that framework supports, per-locale overrides for text, style, image and position, and exports PNG or JPEG at each row's exact pixel size into one folder per locale and row. From the same project it uploads to App Store Connect with an API key and to Google Play with a service-account key. It has two 3D iPhone frames you can rotate, no other 3D, and no video export of any kind. The free tier (1 project, 3 rows, 5 templates per row) includes every frame, every locale, watermark-free export and both uploads.

Side-by-side

What Previewed does well

Previewed's strength is the range of marketing assets it makes without leaving a browser tab. A 3D render of an app on an angled phone, a panorama that spreads one scene across five store slots, or a ten-second animated clip are each a template pick and a few edits away, on any operating system, with no download.

• 3D and animation in the browser. Custom camera and environment controls, clay variants, text animations and MP4 export at up to 60fps, with no desktop 3D app to install or learn.
• A promo-video maker. Add media, arrange slides with transitions, text and backgrounds, export MP4. It is labelled alpha on its landing page, but it exists, and Screenshot Bro has nothing comparable.
• A cheap commercial on-ramp. $9.99 one time buys ten exports at 1080p and above with a commercial licence, and they never expire. For a single landing-page hero and a couple of social posts, that is the whole bill.
• Cloud templates and team groups. Saved templates are backed up and can be grouped and shared, so a designer and a developer can edit the same mockup set from different machines.

Where Screenshot Bro is different

• Exact store sizes are the unit of work. A row is a store size — iPhone 6.9", iPad 13", Android 7" tablet — and export writes each template at that row's pixel dimensions with zero-padded filenames, one folder per locale and row. There is no resolution tier and no scale multiplier.
• Localization is built into the project. 81 language presets, on-device auto-translate with no API keys, per-locale overrides and progress tracking replace the one-template-per-language routine.
• Upload is part of the app. App Store Connect sync compares checksums and only uploads, reorders or removes what changed; Google Play uploads land as a staged edit you confirm. Both are in the free tier.
• Local files, no account. Projects are plain JSON with a public schema, the app works offline, and iCloud sync is opt-in — the trade-off being no browser version and no team accounts.

When to pick Previewed

• You need a hero image of your app on a 3D-angled iPhone or MacBook for the landing page, a press kit or a Product Hunt launch. This is the common case, and Screenshot Bro is the wrong tool for it.
• You need an App Preview, a short promo clip or an animated device for social media. Screenshot Bro does not export video.
• You work on Windows, Linux or a Chromebook, or you want something that runs on any machine without an install.
• You want a panoramic banner or a five-slot panorama from one scene and you are happy to download and upload the files by hand.
• Several people edit the same mockups and you want them in a shared cloud group rather than a project folder.
• You need one or two mockups once, and $9.99 for ten commercial exports is the right amount of commitment.

When to pick Screenshot Bro

• Your deliverable is the full store listing — five to ten screenshots per device size, for iPhone, iPad and possibly Mac and Android — and you will redo it at every major release.
• You ship in more than two or three languages and want translation, per-locale overrides and locale folders handled in one project rather than in duplicated templates.
• You want to upload straight to App Store Connect and Google Play from the tool that made the files, and have re-uploads touch only what changed.
• You need current frames — iPhone 17, iPhone Air, iPad Pro 13", Apple Watch Ultra 3 — today.
• You want exports at the exact pixel sizes the stores require, without checking what "720p" or "1080p+" turns out to be for a portrait phone.
• You want to work offline with project files you own, and no account anywhere.

Using Previewed and Screenshot Bro together

Because the two tools make different assets from the same raw screenshots, the practical setup is to use both and let each do the part it is built for:

1. Capture clean screenshots from the iOS Simulator or a device — one set per device size you ship. On Mac, Screenshot Bro can pull the latest Simulator screenshot straight onto a template after a one-time helper install.
2. Build the store listing in Screenshot Bro. Drop the folder on the canvas (shots route to the right row by pixel size), lay out the templates, add locales with auto-translate where the Translation framework supports them, and export one folder per locale and row.
3. Upload from Screenshot Bro with an App Store Connect API key and a Google Play service-account key. Later releases only push the templates whose checksums changed.
4. Make the marketing assets in Previewed. Drop the same raw screenshots into a 3D template for the website hero, an animation for social posts, or the promo-video maker for an App Preview, and export MP4 or PNG on a Plus or Pro plan.
5. Optionally, bring a render back. A Previewed 3D PNG can be placed on a Screenshot Bro template as an image shape, on a bleed row from the Invisible frame category, so a 3D hero also appears as screenshot one in the store.

Two cautions on step 5. A 720p Lite export is far smaller than a 6.9" store slot, so the render needs to come from a 1080p+ paid export and may still need to be cropped rather than filled. And the Lite licence requires attribution, which you cannot sensibly put on a store screenshot — use a Plus or Pro export for anything that goes to App Store Connect.

Frequently confused points

"Can't I just make the store screenshots in Previewed?"

Yes, and for a small listing it is a reasonable choice. Previewed has App Store and Google Play template categories, portrait and panorama layouts, and the App Store Screenshot Generator page lists two pre-made templates to start from. If you ship one app, in one or two languages, and are fine uploading the files yourself, nothing here says you need a Mac app. The things to check are the output size — the Lite plan caps exports at 720p, which is below what App Store Connect accepts for a 6.9" iPhone (1320 × 2868 or 1290 × 2796 pixels), so a store-ready set needs paid 1080p+ exports — and the export count, since ten Plus exports cover one device size in one language before the subscription starts to make more sense.

"Is Previewed's free plan watermarked?"

Its pricing page does not mention a watermark at all. What the Lite plan carries instead is a CC Attribution licence: the FAQ says free-plan assets are for personal use and you must credit Previewed wherever they appear. For a personal project, a blog post or a portfolio that is often acceptable, and it is a more honest free tier than a stamped image. For a commercial listing you need the Plus or Pro commercial licence, which removes the attribution requirement.

"Does Screenshot Bro do 3D like Previewed?"

Only narrowly. Screenshot Bro ships two 3D USDZ iPhone frames that you can rotate on a template; there is no 3D iPad or Mac, no camera or environment controls, no clay variants and no animation. If your screenshot set wants one angled phone on slide one, that covers it. If you want Previewed's range of 3D scenes, use Previewed and bring the render over as an image.

"Can Screenshot Bro export an App Preview?"

No. There is no video export in Screenshot Bro — not MP4, not GIF, not an animated row — and none is planned as part of the screenshot workflow. An App Preview has to come from Previewed's promo-video maker or animations, from a screen recording, or from a video editor. Note that Previewed's pages describe its video as promo output and do not state App Preview compliance, so check Apple's resolution and duration rules for the device size before you upload.

The honest bottom line

"Which is better" is the wrong frame, because the overlap is thin. Previewed makes the assets that surround an app — a 3D render for the site, an animated device for a post, a promo video — and makes them in a browser for a one-time $9.99 or a subscription. Screenshot Bromakes the store listing itself — every size, every language, exact pixels, uploaded — and does nothing outside that. Most apps need both kinds of asset, and the realistic outcome is using both tools, not choosing one.

Do not buy Screenshot Bro if your deliverable is a video, a 3D hero for a landing page, or anything that needs to run on Windows or in a browser; Previewed or a similar tool is the right answer there, and nothing in Screenshot Bro will close that gap. Do not buy it either if you need one mockup once — the free tier already covers a single small listing. Pay for it when you are shipping repeated, localized sets to both stores and the row-per-size canvas, the locale overrides and the checksum-based upload are the parts you would otherwise redo by hand each release.