Shots.so alternative
Shots.so is a fast mockup editor for social stills, iPhone layouts, templates, and video zooms. ScreenLive is a cinematic 3D device studio: photoreal frames, a real camera, lighting rigs, and on-device export. They overlap on “put a screenshot in a phone.” They are not the same job.
Vendor site: https://shots.so/. Always verify prices there.
Shots.so (shots.so) is a browser mockup app for beautiful social images and short animated zooms: free mockups, iPhone 17 mockup options, templates, glass styles, magic backgrounds, and export presets. ScreenLive is a cinematic 3D studio in the browser — measured Apple frames, orbitable camera, lighting, stills and MP4 — with files that never upload. Free Export is 720p with a screenlive.app watermark. $1 once unlocks clean 4K.
If you want a glass card or a template in one click, stay on Shots. If you want a photoreal phone that looks held, with light and a camera, ScreenLive is the alternative. We will not invent a Shots price list; the public homepage does not publish a stable SKU we can cite. Verify pricing on shots.so.
| Feature | Shots | ScreenLive |
|---|---|---|
| Job | Fast social/glass mockups, templates, iPhone layouts, video zoom | Cinematic 3D device mockups: photoreal body, camera, light, still or MP4 |
| Platform | Web browser at shots.so | Web browser at screenlive.app — Windows, Mac, or Linux |
| Devices | iPhone mockups (incl. iPhone 17), Android, iPad, desktop, screenshot styles — verify library | 33 measured Apple frames plus browser, window, and screenshot |
| Motion | Animated mockups, video zoom, animation presets, parallax | Named camera moves as editable keyframes (orbit, push, pull, lid fold, …) |
| Look | Glass, liquid glass, shadows, magic backgrounds, VHS/glitch | Photoreal materials, three lighting rigs, lens blur, grain/bloom as extras |
| Free export | Free mockups advertised — verify current export limits on shots.so | Free export is 720p with a screenlive.app mark. $1 unlocks clean + 4K. |
| Paid unlock | Not a crawlable public price table on the homepage — verify in-app | Export 720p with watermark anytime. $1 unlocks clean + 4K. |
| Privacy | Browser editor — verify where media goes on the vendor site | On-device. Files you drop are never uploaded. |
Shots.so’s own homepage sells speed: free mockups, iPhone mockups including iPhone 17, pre-made layouts, animated zooms, glass and liquid-glass styles, magic backgrounds generated from your media, filters, and export presets for social frames. That is a design companion for posts and sites that need a pretty device in seconds.
ScreenLive’s pitch is a finished product photograph: a measured device body, a camera you orbit, a lighting rig, optional motion as keyframes, encoded in the tab. The studio lives at /studio. This page is the comparison crawlers can read.
Search “iPhone mockup” and you get both products. Shots wins the flat/glass/template reading of that query. ScreenLive wants the cinematic reading: a phone with weight, a screen that is a display, light that falls off. If your reference is a Dribbble glass card, Shots is the closer tool. If your reference is a product still on a brand site, ScreenLive is.
We will not pretend ScreenLive has Shots’ template library or magic backgrounds. We will not pretend Shots has a photoreal Apple pack you can orbit like a camera.
The public page at shots.so advertises free mockups and an in-editor export UI. It does not publish a crawlable price table we will cite as fact. Do not take this page as Shots’ SKU list. Open the editor and read the paywall if you need their current plan.
ScreenLive’s side is the one we can stand behind. Free export = 720p + watermark · $1 unlocks clean + 4K Lemon, no subscription.
ScreenLive renders and encodes with WebGL and WebCodecs in this browser. Projects sit in IndexedDB. We do not claim Shots uploads your shots — we also will not claim it does not. Read their policy on shots.so.
Free forever: edit, preview, and Capture anytime. Default Export is 720p with a screenlive.app watermark. Optional $1 unlock removes the mark and enables 4K — Lemon, no subscription.
Keep Shots for the social still, the glass iPhone, the template, the zoom. Open ScreenLive when the device has to look photographed: a hero, a launch clip, a shot that must stay on this machine. That is the split, not a request to delete Shots.
A lot of people will use both. Shots for the timeline graphic. ScreenLive for the Product Hunt gallery image. Different jobs, same screenshot.
Competitor prices and limits change. Verify on the vendor site — or in-app, when the site is opaque — before you buy.
Shots links on this page point at https://shots.so/ only. Public claims are from that homepage as of Sep 10, 2026.
ScreenLive files never leave your browser. Read the privacy page.
Questions
For putting a screenshot on a device in the browser, partly. ScreenLive is a cinematic 3D studio. Shots is a fast social/glass mockup editor. Same neighbourhood, different job.
No. ScreenLive has Looks and Starters (device + camera + light). It does not clone Shots’ template library or magic backgrounds.
We cannot cite a public Shots price page from the marketing homepage. Free mockups are advertised. Verify current plans on shots.so.
Export 720p with watermark anytime. $1 unlocks clean + 4K.
No. Files you drop or paste are never uploaded to ScreenLive servers. See the privacy page.
Free forever: edit, preview, and Capture anytime. Default Export is 720p with a screenlive.app watermark. Optional $1 unlock removes the mark and enables 4K — Lemon, no subscription.