Appalize ShotsGraphics & Design Appalize Shots: a store screenshot designer that runs on the phone, built by ODEL
Appalize Shots is a mobile app for designing App Store and Google Play screenshots on the device, designed and built by ODEL as a companion to the Appalize ASO platform. Users pick one of six editable layouts, edit several screens at once with undo and redo, set device frames, typography, colors and cropping, and export full-resolution PNGs, a multi-size ZIP or an editable backup. There is no account, backend or telemetry: screenshots and text stay on the device. It is built with Capacitor 8, Vite and strict TypeScript without a UI framework, with a custom StoreKit plugin for the Shots Pro purchase. The app is 4.6 MB. It shows how small and private a focused tool can be.
- Platforms
- iOS
- Languages
- 1
- Product page
- Appalize Shots
The problem
App developers and marketers need a consistent set of store screenshots, usually built in desktop or browser tools. Setting up every store size by hand is slow. Appalize Shots builds the whole set on the phone and exports the sizes together.
What we built
- Six editable screenshot layouts
- Multi-screen editing with undo and redo
- Device frames, typography, colors and cropping
- Export as full-resolution PNGs or a multi-size ZIP
- Editable backups the user keeps
- No account and no upload
Technology
- App
- Capacitor 8, Vite and strict TypeScript, no UI framework
- Data
- On the device; no account, backend, paid API or telemetry
- Purchases
- Custom StoreKit plugin
- Platforms
- iOS and Android
Launch and growth
- Live on the App Store (iOS 15.0 or later)
- Version 1.0, 4.6 MB
- Store listing in English
- Free download with a Shots Pro purchase
What we learned
- Skipping a UI framework and a backend kept the app at 4.6 MB with nothing to host. For a client tool with one user and local files, the simplest stack can be the right one.
- A mobile companion can extend a SaaS product into a new store without sharing its backend.
Services used
Tell us about your project
Tell us what you want to build. Your brief comes straight to the developer who would build it, and you get a written reply by email.
- No cost and no commitment for the first conversation
- A written scope and a fixed quote or a phased plan
- You own the app, the code and the store accounts