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Capture it in one click.

Plain screenshots are free and never run out. Framed ones add the device’s body, a background and padding. Recordings mark every touch and save as MP4 or GIF.

Free: plain screenshots without limit, 3 framed screenshots and 3 recordings a day.Pro: no daily limit, sound in recordings and App Store sizes.

The Capture film. 1:20, with sound.

iPhone Duo captured closed, partially open and open. App Store sizes picked in the panel, each saved with its transparent copy. Every bezel option, then a recording with touches, a cursor and a voice.

Music: Sascha Ende, ende.app (CC BY 4.0). Sound effects: Kenney (CC0).

One click, from wherever you are.

Screenshot and Record sit on the panel’s Home workspace and in the menu bar, so a capture never waits for you to find a window.

Turn on Clean status bar first and the shot shows 9:41, full Wi-Fi and a charged battery.

SimBuddy’s Home workspace: the target app, Light and Dark, text size, and Screenshot and Record under Capture
SimBuddy’s menu bar menu with Take Screenshot and Record
The Home workspace and the menu bar. Both take the same shot.

Framed in the device’s own body.

The Capture workspace sets the background, transparent or a colour, the ratio and the padding. Device bezel draws the model’s body around the screen, in Device Hub’s style or the classic one, with its buttons, camera and colour, and Device shadow lifts it off the page.

SimBuddy keeps the setup, so the next shot matches the last one.

  • Copy to the clipboard, or open the Captures folder
  • App Store sizes with Pro, iPhone Duo’s inner and outer screens included, each saved with a transparent copy
  • The same options from simbuddy screenshot
The Capture workspace’s Screenshot card on iPhone Duo: Background Transparent, Ratio, Padding, App Store, Device bezel, Bezel Device Hub, Buttons, Glow, Camera, Bezel colour and Device shadow

iPhone Duo, folded or open.

Fold iPhone Duo from SimBuddy: closed, half open at 130° or flat. Xcode’s own command line has no way to do it.

Screenshots and recordings take the screen in use, the cover screen while it’s closed and the inner screen once it opens.

  • Closed: the cover screen
  • Half open and flat: the inner screen
  • The Device Matrix follows each Duo’s fold too
iPhone Duo’s cover screen, folded, with SimBuddy’s website open in Safari
iPhone Duo folded, on its cover screen.

Recordings that show each touch.

Show touches marks every tap with a ripple in the colour you pick. Keep it as MP4, at the device’s own frame rate or at 60, 30, 24 or 15 frames a second, or as a GIF at 10 to 24.

With Pro, the Simulator’s sound and your voice go in too.

The Recording card: codec, show touches, pointer, touch colour, record audio, format and frame rate

Your agent can shoot too.

Every capture has a command, so an agent can check its own work and a script can make the store pictures. A framed screenshot from the App Store copy is written to Downloads.

$ simbuddy screenshot ~/Downloads/home.png --bezel --shadow

Framed in the device’s body, with its shadow.

$ simbuddy record ~/Downloads/demo.mp4 --duration 10s --touches

Ten seconds, every touch marked.

$ simbuddy device fold open

iPhone Duo flat, on its inner screen.

$ simbuddy screenshot ~/Downloads/store.png --app-store iphone-6.9

An App Store size, with store-transparent.png beside it. Pro.