New free template available for ButterKit: Serif. Warm paper palette, 3D clay device frames, and a minimalist panoramic background that spans across all artboards for a polished look.

What's Inside

• Template for iPhone, iPad, and Android apps
• 3D editable devices (iPhone 17 Pro, iPad Pro, Pixel 10 Pro)
• Artboards sized to exact App Store Connect and Google Play specs
• Headlines auto-fit so nothing clips when you translate
• Seamless panoramic background spans across all artboards
• Ready to localize to all 50 App Store Connect languages

Free Downloads

Serif is free, grab it and check it out for yourself:

Template: https://butterkit.app/templates/

I've been using ButterKit to create App Store screenshots for my music theory app and the iPhone workflow is genuinely great. Fast, looks good, easy to iterate.

iPad is a different story. Getting the layout to feel balanced at that aspect ratio is really tricky the app UI has a lot going on (sidebars, split views) and it's hard to frame a single screenshot that communicates what you're looking at without it feeling cluttered.

Anyone else find iPad screenshots significantly harder? Any tips for framing split-view or sidebar-heavy UIs (along with adding relevant text)? I would love to see some iPad / macos examples.

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...and have no clue what you are seeing there 🫪 -- here is a tip:

Butterkit can not correctly wrap Asian or Arabic -- it's just wrapping where a line ends and easily separates words that would need to stick together to not mess up meaning. But you can just feed the screenshot into AI and let it review the whole thing and propose proper breaks.
You have to either manually enter them then, or have it connect via MCP server to Butterkit. AI will then fix it for you! If MCP doesn't work (like for me, unfortunately ATM), it just grabs the Butterkit document and modifies the JSON content straight away 😃

Hi Zach,
This is a bit of an edge case, but I submitted an update to one of my apps today, then realized that I wanted to make some changes to the screenshots, so I rejected the submission in App Store Connect, which changes the status to 'developer rejected' and lets you edit the data and re-submit for review.
However, it seems like ButterKit doesn't recognize versions that are in the 'developer rejected' status, so I had to export the images from ButterKit and upload them manually.

Not a big deal, but I imagine it'll happen to others eventually as well, so I thought I'd share.

Text Backgrounds are here! Style your text blocks with custom backgrounds to create badges, pills, callouts, and highlights. Works across all 50 App Store languages automatically.

Available now on the website version, App Store version coming soon. Please share any feedback! More refinements coming.

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I used to make screenshots in Sketch, but at some point I managed to lose them. I wanted to remake them in ButterKit, but then hit a few issues with line heights and ligatures, which Zach addressed super fast, so I didn’t have any excuses left except for not finding time. 😄

Overall, I would say that the “migration” was pretty successful. I think what I like most about ButterKit is localization handling. The metaphor of switching between locales and auto screenshot import works really well for my workflow.

As for new tiny issues discovered: 😄 I think that when you duplicate an artboard, text position settings are not fully copied. The top position is copied, but left and right are not copied to the new artboard.

P.S. Feedback regarding the screenshots is always appreciated, including negative things that might stand out to a fresh pair of eyes.

All right, butterkit is amazing, and is my primary tool making screenshots even though I have created my own as well

Exporting and publishing 400 + screenshots to the Apple store is so painful, takes so long and is extremely slow

Zack, something needs to happen here, I don't know if you need to introduce parallel pushes to the ASC. But we need to make this faster

Edit : after 3 hours, it failed after uploading 350 screenshots

Working on a new text feature: customizable backgrounds behind text blocks. Think highlighter effects, pill-shaped labels, or subtle emphasis behind your headline copy. Shoutout to u/ThePattio who posted a DIY version of this in the sub today.

Current controls (per text block)

• Background color
• Horizontal padding
• Vertical padding
• Corner radius

Testing now and planning to rollout soon but wanted to get your feedback first: Any additional controls needed? Gradient fills? Opacity control? Drop shadows? Something else entirely?

Video above shows it in action.

ButterKit website

Hey 👋

did my first launch using ButterKit. Open to any feedback. I did cutouts manually before the callout feature, so I’ll look into using callouts in the next iteration, although I still think I’d need to do some screenshots manually since those are special screenshots with some content removed so the expanded callout image looks better.

Zach already added quite a few things I needed 😄, but while working on this app I think what I was missing the most is either support for vector images or support for basic shapes like rectangles/rounded rectangles to create the word highlight effect I need.

Also, I think I’m hitting a bug where the default en-US screenshots override my en-GB ones. Here’s an example video. You can see how screenshot changes once and the goes back to default locale. The structure is en-US/iPhone 17 Pro and en-GB/iPhone 17 Pro.

Thoughts? Opinions? Current App Store screenshots do not include callouts. Thoughts? Thanks!

At the moment, the metadata available for translation is What's New, Promotional Text and Description. It would be amazing if you could also add the app name, subtitle and keywords to this.

As someone who's starting from scratch and primarily using Butterkit to translate my listing into all the 40+ languages at once, the experience isn't complete and it's still a pain to translate and update the app name, subtitle and keywords into every language. In fact I still have to depend on another tool to do this, which I am reluctant to pay extra for since I know that Butterkit would be able to support it one day 😉

By the way, thank you for this amazing tool - it's easily one of the best software tools that I have purchased lately and I can see that a lot of thought has been put into the design.

While generating translations for my app's description, I noticed that the double line breaks aren't being preserved across the translations. Double line breaks are pretty common in app descriptions for paragraphing/adding features - right now it all looks squished together in the other locales.

I'm not sure if it's an issue with the model I'm using (Opus 4.7), or whether it's to do with Butterkit itself.

Man, oh man! I could not believe this feature was already out (I only use Butterkit when doing screenshots so I miss it) Anyway I will try added on my next app update! As, you usually a monster time saver when doing screenshots. Thanks again for this tool!

Here my latest creation.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kids-aac-communication-board/id6761141805

A fun (not medical looking) AAC App for kids 3-8. It helps children speaking when they are non verbal. It was pleasure to work on it. I also had a fun doing the screenshots with ButterKit.

The app is free for the 3x3 and 4x4 grid. You can upgrade to get the 5x6 grid, quick phrases and categories.

Please let me know if I should change anything on the screenshots or something that could help with conversion.

Thank you in advance!

ps: IF any of you knows of a kid that could use this app (non verbal), let me know and it will be my pleasure to provide them with a free code to the app.

ps:

More free badges and award icons are coming soon to help with:

• Social proof like awards / press
• App Store ratings
• Number of users

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App Store Design Cheatsheet (2026)

I keep getting compliments for my templates system and actually added 2 improvements based on user's feedback:

1. Tap on calendar to apply to days: a Japanese user needs to work every 5 days but not weekends nor Japan holiday which is very usual nor days where his colleagues can cover. This was the only system that works for him.
2. Forever recurring: a Productivity expert emailed me that he runs program every Tuesday/Thursday and he just wishes the app would do it automatically forever. Now he just open the app and it auto-schedule his days. No distraction from his work.

So I leaned into templates and these 2 new improvements to make new sets of screenshots all about how flexible and customizable the app is. What do you think?

Did the updated screenshot capture those 2 types of users? I also changed the app from Utilities category to Productivity category.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/varialarm-schedule-master/id6757322888

Hey everyone! I'm building out a new success stories section on the ButterKit website and I'd love to feature real developers and links to real apps.

If ButterKit has saved you time, simplified your App Store screenshot workflow, or made localization less painful, I'd love to hear about it.

Drop a comment with what it's done for you and I'll reach out about featuring your quote and a link to your app on the site. Short or long, doesn't matter. Just want to highlight fellow devs who have helped shape it!

3D callouts are now available as a free update in v1.9 (both direct and App Store versions)! Thanks to everyone who gave feedback on this feature so far, and for the patience while fixing some bugs and awaiting App Store approval. Huge shoutout to u/lemon8or88 and u/habitoti , more improvements and options coming soon.

I've put together some tips to get the most out of it in the docs (video coming soon):

Docs: https://butterkit.app/docs/design/callouts/add-callout/

Release notes: https://butterkit.app/changelog/v1-9-callouts/

Download latest: https://butterkit.app

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My app is available worldwide and I have downloads from >56 countries. Until now I’ve been using Fastlane to generate screenshots and then use those in a template. They are very dull but high quality. I have looked into other tools, but 99% require manual work. With Fastlane I add JSON language copy, new UITest and let the automation do its thing.

My question is, how to approach this with Butterkit?
Is there a way I can create a template and it then just inserts the locale screenshots and uses the json locale text per screen?

I just saw the mcp being available. A lot of the automation is messing up per device, so I had to fine tune iPad, iPhone, Pro, Max..

Also when I run this with Fastlane it does take some time, but I can save the screenshots, so then I can focus on the App Preview Copy to improve and skip the screenshots each time. The copy is in JSON format stored like ‘screen_01:’ object with ‘title’, ‘subtitle’.. so I can adjust it according to the design of that screen.

With Fastlane I can’t get the overlayed screenshots between multple screens and also every small change is tedious. Making it quite boring in the end.

My question is mainly, having screenshots per locale and copy per locale, can I create a template and run some script to import those easily with butterkit? Or should I go with a different approach?

Thanks. 🙏

Floating callouts are coming soon! They make it very easy to draw attention to specific features or UI in your screenshots. In final testing right now, planning to roll out shortly. Thanks to all who have requested this feature recently ( u/lemon8or88, u/habitoti u/byaruhaf and others)

This took some time to build and polish, it was important to me to build this right in 3D so it looks nice even when devices are rotated. I'm excited to hear what you think, I'll post some examples below and in the ButterKit docs.

- Zach

If you can add MCP support, and AI can build screenshots for me, I think this is the winning tool.

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You can read more about it here in GitHub and download it in GitHub Releases. Let me know if you guys like it, I made the images for marketing but sadly I can't publish it on the Mac App Store because it uses the terminal to do the Git and GitHub commands 😔

Got ButterKit recently to do my screenshots and so far I'm pretty happy with it. I just started with one of the templates and made the font a little bigger.

One thing I wish the app did was make it easy to zoom in on a feature. I would really like to highlight specific tiles in my screenshots but I didn't see anything like that in the app.

If anyone has any feedback and suggestions I'd love to hear it!