A Canva alternative for app store screenshots

Why Canva gets fiddly for store screenshots

I'm not knocking Canva. I use it for social posts. But for a store listing, you end up doing the store's job by hand:

• You type the size in yourself, 1080 × 1920 for Play and 1290 × 2796 for iPhone, for every design.
• There's no device frame that fits your real screens, so you line one up by hand on every slide.
• A PNG with a transparent background slips out easily, and Google Play rejects it.
• Turning the Android set into the iPhone set means a resize, and resizing a design is a Pro feature.

None of that is hard. It's just slow, and it all comes back the moment you change one screen in your app.

What a good Canva alternative needs

For store screenshots specifically, this is my list. Anything that misses one of these is just Canva with extra steps:

• It knows each store's sizes and only exports valid ones.
• It frames your real app screens in a device for you.
• It builds the whole carousel at once, not one image at a time.
• It exports without a watermark.
• Ideally, it makes the icon and the feature graphic in the same place.

My Canva alternative, step by step

1. Grab your screens

   From the emulator or your phone, at any resolution. Raw 20:9 captures are fine here because they go inside a frame, not straight to the store.

2. Open the editor and pick a set

   ExportKit's screenshot editor opens on the template gallery. Terracotta, Pulse and Nova are free.

3. Pick the device

   Android exports at 1080 × 1920, iPhone at 1290 × 2796 and tablet at 1600 × 2560. You choose it once at the top, not per slide.

4. Drop in a screen and write one line per frame

   Lead with what the user gets, not the feature name. You write these yourself; there's no copy generation in ExportKit.

5. Export

   Every screenshot as a PNG, or the whole kit as a zip with the icon and the feature graphic.

The feature graphic works the same way, and it's locked to the 1024 × 500 Play needs, which is another thing you'd otherwise set up by hand in Canva.

The words matter more than the tool

Whatever you make the screenshots in, the line on each frame does most of the work. People flick through a carousel in a couple of seconds, so each frame gets one idea. "Track every workout in one tap" beats "Advanced workout tracking features". Say what you get, not what the feature is called.

I keep it to five or six words per headline and put the strongest frame first, because it's the one people see first, and often the only one. If a frame needs a paragraph to make sense, it's two frames.

What about App Store screenshots?

Same steps, different device. Switch the picker to iPhone and the set exports at 1290 × 2796, a size App Store Connect accepts for iPhone. In Canva you'd make a second design at that size and move everything across by hand, which is the bit that eats an evening. One catch: Apple also requires at least one screenshot at 1179 × 2556 or 1206 × 2622, and ExportKit doesn't export that size yet.

Canva vs Figma vs Screenhance vs ExportKit, quickly

Prices and the full breakdown are in my comparison of the best Play Store screenshot generator options.

When Canva is still the right call

If you need one quick screenshot, your brand kit is already in Canva, and you're making the Instagram post at the same time, stay in Canva. It's not worth switching tools for two images. If you design your app in Figma, a Figma community template keeps your screenshots in sync with your real components. And if your launch needs mockup scenes and a demo video, Screenhance does all of that in one place.

ExportKit is the Canva alternative for the boring middle: a full, correctly sized set for both stores, free, without a watermark. It has fewer templates than the paid tools and no video, and I'd rather tell you that now than after you've signed up.

Before you upload, whichever tool you use

Check the files against the Google Play screenshot sizes and the App Store screenshot sizes. If Play bounces one anyway, here's why a Play Store screenshot gets rejected and the quick fix.