Frame Screenshots: Shareshot

I wanted a quick, easy tool to frame screenshot, nothing fancy. But Shareshot is all smoke and mirrors. The app claims to support a range of device frames, but in reality, it auto-detects your screenshot and refuses to let you pick a frame manually. If it doesn’t recognize your device (like my 2020 MacBook Air)? You’re out of luck. Want to “try another model”? Too bad, there’s no list, no picker, and no control. Even though the help suggests trying “older” model frames, but you can’t do it. Even the downloadable "frame packs" (like Meta/Facebook devices) are locked behind a Pro paywall—and still won’t work unless the screenshot metadata matches their system exactly. At the end of the day, this app slaps a transparent PNG over your screenshot... something I could do in Preview for free. Restrictive, over-engineered, and not worth your time.

As his co-editor notes in MacStories' review of Version 1.0, Federico Viticci's Apple Frames Shortcut does indeed overlap in functionality with Shareshot, technically, but - more importantly, from my perspective - the two stand together high above any other mockup creation solution (for any platform). At first, I was disappointed when I tried to use Shareshot's initial release version. *Boy, this could sure use some keyboard shortcuts*, I thought, along with *there's no way this system of 'choosing' (not choosing) frame sizes isn't irritating every single user of this app*. I assumed - as I do with the vast majority of new software I try these days - that Shareshot's creators must not actually be using the app, that it wasn't actually supposed to be used, really, but was published, instead, for some economically-motivated reason I'd never understand. Very shortly after, however, *the most* extraordinarily encouraging thing(s) happened: in the span of just a single season, *all* of the issues/"missing" features I was sure anyone using the app extensively would immediately encounter were addressed with solid, well-documented updates.(Tee ell dee are: it is very obvious that Marc and Mark use the app themselves, are very competent, and value customer feedback.) As I write this using Version 1.2.1 at the tail end of 2024, Shareshot is perfect, built-for-me mockup application I have always dreamed of, assuming I'd never get anything close.

Love the app, such a great upgrade from the shortcut! The background variety is just awesome, reminds me of Denim is a very nice way. I'm actually using this for my own App Store Previews. It'd be great to get custom sizes exported, that would save me a few steps 😅 And longer term support for screen recordings and animated backgrounds would be sick. Keep up the good work!