This page makes a transparent mockup of an app screenshot: a 3D phone (or tablet) with your screen on it, saved as a PNG with a transparent background. The soft shadow under the device is kept as a semi-transparent layer, so it looks right on white, coloured and dark page sections alike.
How to make a transparent app mockup
- Upload the screenshot at its original size, straight from the phone or exported from your design tool.
- Keep Background on Transparent and Save as on PNG, or choose WebP for a smaller file that also keeps transparency. JPEG can't be transparent.
- Choose the device, its colour and the camera angle. Tilted hero and three-quarter angles give depth; Front suits side-by-side feature sections.
- Download the picture and place it on your page. The phone's edges are antialiased against transparency, so they stay smooth on any background colour.
Tips for app pages
- Make one mockup per screen with the same device, colour and angle so a row of screenshots looks consistent. The framing is the same every time for the same settings.
- For an app store style banner, use the 9:16 or 4:5 format and add your own text around the device in your design tool.
- Tablet screenshots work the same way; wide screenshots turn the tablet to landscape.
Pitfalls
- A screenshot with a different shape from the phone's screen is shown whole, with the rest of the screen in the average colour of its edges. Choose Fill the screen to crop it to fill the display instead (tall ones keep their top).
- Very small screenshots (a few hundred pixels wide) look soft on a large mockup. Use the original screenshot rather than a thumbnail.
More about what this tool reads and writes: 3D Device Mockup Generator.