A brand new Mac app referred to as Framous launched on Tuesday, providing you with the power so as to add gadget frames round screenshots to make them look extra skilled.
The useful new instrument can help app builders, graphic designers, and even journalists who want so as to add an iPhone or Mac body—also called a mockup or template—to photographs. This may be notably helpful for creating App Store screenshots, touchdown pages, and header photographs for articles.
The app was created by Dark Noise app developer Charlie Chapman, who wanted a quick and straightforward approach so as to add gadget frames round screenshots. Traditionally, many customers relied on time-consuming strategies, reminiscent of in search of out templates on-line and manually putting their screenshots.
While comparable apps and providers exist, reminiscent of iFrames (a Safari extension) or SMPRO (an iOS app), we seen there’s a scarcity of devoted options for Mac customers.
Framous goals to be extra environment friendly than different choices, because it solely requires customers to both drag and drop or copy and paste their screenshots into the app, which then mechanically locations them in gadget frames.
Key options embrace automated detection, which chooses the precise body from a library of gadgets, together with Mac, iPhone, Apple Watch, and Apple TV 4K. You may mix a number of gadgets into one picture, and there’s a panorama mode for iPhones.
Additionally, there are many customization choices. For occasion, you’ll be able to transfer the gadget buttons to the aspect and alter the body coloration. There is an edge-to-edge mode that lets your picture fill the body, just like fashionable iPhones. You may export your photographs to Figma or Sketch for additional enhancing.
Chapman informed TechCrunch about his future plans for the app, which embrace including extra customization choices reminiscent of controls for the body background, shadows, and padding. He additionally intends to introduce video help and the power to save lots of templates. An iOS app can be on the roadmap.
Framous is offered to obtain totally free within the Mac App Store. If you wish to unlock all of the frames, you’ll have to spend a one-time price of $19.99, or there’s a $9.99 yearly subscription to unlock all new frames as they roll out.
