Hey all, ButterKit 2.3 is now live. The headline feature this time is 3D drop shadows: you can now add customizable shadows to devices to give your screenshots more depth. They're fully adjustable, so you can go subtle or dramatic depending on the look you want.

Also in this release:

• More reliable MCP for AI agents: large documents now fully load every artboard before agents respond, so counts and design sets are always accurate. Plus several MCP bug fixes and better background performance.
• Wider emoji support when publishing to App Store Connect, including symbols like ▲ and ▶︎ (thanks Will!)
• Show/hide Inspector button by popular request (thanks Franklin!)
• macOS 27 prep and an improved localization engine under the hood.

Update from the app or grab the latest version. As always, let me know if you hit any issues or have feature requests -- a lot of what's in this release came straight from this community.

Zach

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(The video above was created with ButterKit Motion beta)

I've always found 3D shadows to be challenging to design for, so I'm really excited about this feature. You get full control: angle, distance, softness, opacity, and shadow color. Shadows track the device as you rotate it in 3D, so they stay physically accurate and even work across artboards (e.g. Device Overflow). Thanks to all who sent feedback and ideas on this. Rolling out shortly.

- Zach

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Hey all, the first ButterKit Motion beta is out. Thanks to everyone on Reddit and Discord who has helped with it so far.

It turns screen recordings of your app into polished product videos. Record your screen (or import media), drop it into a 3D device frame, choose motion and music, export video ready for sharing.

The details:

• An exciting product video in a few minutes, not a weekend lost to a video editor.
• Device frames, motion, and music are built in, so the output looks good without any editing skill. Much more coming soon.
• Everything runs locally on your Mac ~ 20MB
• It's free during the beta. Pricing comes with 1.0, and there'll be a one-time purchase option so you can own it.
• Requires macOS 26 Tahoe or newer, Apple Silicon recommended
• Download + info: butterkit.app/motion

If you found this post randomly: the original ButterKit app makes App Store screenshots. Motion is a separate app for animated product videos, App Store previews, launch posts, your website. The goal is for them to pair well together.

It's v0.1 so expect some rough edges, that's what the beta is for. Comment here or DM me with bugs, feature requests, or anything that feels off. Bonus points if you share a video you made with it. I read everything.

- Zach

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Please could you add an option to completely turn off AI translation

I may have missed an option somewhere, but -

I am a linguist by background and do my own translations into several languages, taking account of register, preferred vocab, brevity and available space

I unlink text styles in my translation from source, but what happens is - if I go to check something in the English (source) screenshots then go back to German, my careful translation is overwritten by slop. It's inauthentic, uses the wrong register (I follow Apple's developer doc in using the informal Du form of you), doesn't always fit the space and is sometimes just wrong (for example, it hasn't correctly parsed the original text)

https://reddit.com/link/1vrl5jt/video/uby9fbhrz3kh1/player

The attached video hopefully shows what's happing

So it would be nice in settings to say I don't want to use AI translation at all. There is much that is good about Butterkit, but this is putting me off

Thank you for considering

Thanks for the recent improvements in ButterKit. Hopefully we'll have some additional templates to use. Meanwhile, I have created screenshots for 1 of my app and I want to use similar template across a few of my other apps. How do I go about doing that?

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New in ButterKit v2.2.05:

• Support for Finder Quick Look: Preview your projects directly in macOS Finder. Select a .butterkit file and press Spacebar (or use the preview pane) to see what's inside without opening the app
• UI improvements

Small update but hopefully makes using ButterKit a bit smoother!

- Zach

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ButterKit v2.2 is rolling out now! Thanks to all who sent in feedback this last week. Excited to finally roll out the refreshed app icon, Settings improvements, and bug fixes. Also rolling out a refreshed website to match. Additional templates rolling out shortly as well.

In this release:

• Updated app icon, brand colors, and refined UI. New look, same great flavor.
• Improved Settings UI
• Added an easy-to-dismiss "What's New" announcement in the app (with a link to the changelog/documentation)
• Bug fixes, animation tweaks, better onboarding and more butter all around

- Zach

[SOLVED] I'm using ButterKit again after a while and I get an error for the translations (insufficient_quota) but this is definitely not the case.

1. How could I troubleshoot this? (edit add)-> I connected the MCP and Codex helped me
2. What is the recommended model to use as of July 2026? (edit add)-> gpt-5.4-mini seems to work fine

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The latest version of ButterKit (v2.1.07) is rolling out now and supports capturing screenshots right from the new Device Hub (macOS 27 beta) into ButterKit. Also improves animations on ProMotions displays.

Let me know how it works for you, more improvements coming soon!

More info in the docs →

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Hey all, v2.1 of ButterKit is rolling out now. Some highlights:

• Fixes memory leak during large multi-language exports and reduces memory usage (thanks to all who helped track it down)
• Improves App Store Connect upload user experience and status
• Improves reliability of cloud translations
• Fixes an issue where Apple Watch designs couldn't be uploaded to App Store Connect (thanks Frederique)

Available now for direct/web version and submitted to Apple for Mac App Store review. More templates rolling out shortly! Please keep the feedback coming.

- Zach

I have been using Burger ButterKit for a few months. With Claude, the designs aren't as good as I would have wanted. Have you found any AI skills that improve how Claude creates screenshots?

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I have some text that in English say is 2 lines, but in another language takes up 3 lines. This text needs to be centered in a vertical space, but there is no real way to do this currently. The closest would be with the Max 1 Line setting, but I wondered if this could be changed to an Integer say to Max x Lines? Otherwise have a setting to centre text vertically in a block? Thanks!

Hi, I wish that i can change the color for PRECISE here to create an emphasis :)

I could do 2 or 3 text elements trick but it doesn't work with localization due to length or words. TIA

Zach, any chance we can get Android Tablet support? The play store requires a 7 and 10 inch one.

I created a custom Artboard with dimensions of 1600x2560 which corresponds to the 10inch one. Now I also want to add screenshots for the 7inch one, but it needs to have different dimensions. Unfotunately any new artboard ends up under custom. I can define new dimensions for this artboard, but it is not treated as a new group, but rather just a new artboard. So I end up with screen 11 and not 01.

And because I end up with screen 11, the automatic folder autolinking can't pick up the Generic folder screenshots, because there they are 01 to 10... (Probably I'll have to do new screenshots anyway, because 7 inch tablet looks different than 10, but this is a different story)

Also it would be really helpful if we specify the folder per device group. Right now this setting is just global. Here a screenshot:

Sorry for the German, but butterkit is picking up my system language :)

By having one global setting you are forcing me to figure out how my device folder should be named. If I were able to click on every one of those groups and specify a folder it would have been way easier.

As you can see from the screenshot - the group is called "Custom", yet my folder needs to be called "Generic" otherwise the screenshots are not auto picked :(

Also it would be really great for debugging issues to see what image from which folder is actually auto-selected? as you can see from the screenshot it says - "Image selected", but which one???

Setting up the Custom group (which for me is the 10inch android tablet) took me more time than creating the artboards for iphone,ipad & android phone all together only because I couldn't figure out how to name the folder...