Articles

App store creative, explained.

How the stores serve their images, what sizes they expect, and how to monitor what your competitors are doing with their listings.

Monitoring

How to track a competitor's App Store listing for changes

Competitors test screenshots, icons, and titles constantly. Here is how to catch every change, on both stores, without checking by hand.

9 min read · Updated 2026-07-15

Downloading

How to download App Store screenshots in full resolution

The App Store only ever serves your browser a downscaled thumbnail. Here is why right click and save fails, and how to get the original.

6 min read · Updated 2026-07-15

Downloading

How to download Google Play screenshots and the feature graphic

Play hides its originals behind a resizing CDN too, and buries one asset most people forget exists.

6 min read · Updated 2026-07-15

Specifications

App Store screenshot sizes and specifications

What Apple accepts, which sizes are actually required, and why one well chosen set can cover the whole listing.

7 min read · Updated 2026-07-15

Specifications

Google Play asset specifications

Screenshots, the 512 by 512 icon, and the feature graphic that decides whether your listing looks finished.

6 min read · Updated 2026-07-15

Workflow

Recovering store artwork when the source files are gone

The agency folded, the designer left, the drive died. Your live listing is still the highest quality copy in existence.

7 min read · Updated 2026-07-15

Workflow

Studying competitor screenshots without guessing

Reading a rival's listing properly means looking at the assets at full size, not squinting at a carousel.

6 min read · Updated 2026-07-15