Free alternatives to Shots.so, Screely, Pika, Xnapper and CleanShot X

Shots.so is polished and has more device mockups and camera angles than Shotcandy. Its better features sit in paid plans, and its site doesn't say where your image is processed. If you mostly add backgrounds, frames and shadows, Shotcandy does that for free and adds batch export and multi-screen layouts. Shotcandy vs Shots.so.

The old screely.com domain no longer hosts the tool. A Screely now lives at screely.app, free, with a Chrome extension for capturing tabs. Shotcandy covers the same window mockups, without an extension, and adds device frames, batches and multi-screen designs. Shotcandy vs Screely.

Pika runs in the browser and keeps images local, like Shotcandy. It has many templates, some of them Pro, and a public repository for its free features under a custom licence. Shotcandy has every feature free under MIT, plus batches and screen recordings. Pika has more ready-made templates and extensions for VS Code and Raycast.

Xnapper and CleanShot X are native Mac apps that capture and beautify in one step, and CleanShot X records the screen. They're excellent if you're on a Mac and want capture built in. Shotcandy doesn't capture; it styles what you paste, so it works anywhere a browser does, including Windows, Linux and phones. Use your system's screenshot shortcut, then paste.

Screenshot Studio is also free, open source (Apache 2.0) and in-browser, and it has batch ZIP export, multi-device layouts, code images and App Store sets. It's the nearest match to Shotcandy, and worth trying. The differences are in the details: in Shotcandy a batch can have per-image changes and can write straight into a folder, and screen recordings get the same styles as screenshots.