Gradient
24 hand-built mesh gradients across five families, plus 6 classics — 30 looks in all. Every one renders on your own screenshot for free.
30 built-in looks · 6 background modes
Add a background to a screenshot, on your phone
A raw screenshot is a rectangle of someone else's interface. A background, rounded corners and a soft shadow turn it into something that looks deliberate. ScreenCandy does that where the screenshot already is.
Free on the App Store and Google Play.
Six background modes
Every kind of ground a screenshot needs
Solid
A flat colour behind the card — white, light grey, graphite, black, raspberry, blue or green. The right answer when the screenshot is busy, or when the ground has to stay quiet.
Blur
The screenshot itself, enlarged and blurred behind itself, with its own radius and saturation. The colours always match, because they came from the same image.
Photo
Any image from your library as the ground — a wallpaper, a brand texture, a product shot. Pan and scale it behind the screenshot until it sits right.
Transparent
No ground at all. Export a PNG with real alpha and drop the composed card straight onto a slide, a doc, or a dark site.
No canvas
No fill and no shadow — the screenshot, untreated. For when you want the ratio, the crop and the markup but nothing decorative around them.
The gradient library
All 24 mesh gradients
Vivid, warm, cool, night, neutral
Each one is a real mesh, not a two-stop ramp: a 9 × 9 colour grid that bends light across the canvas, so the ground stays interesting behind a flat white app screenshot. Six classics sit alongside them, for 30 looks in total.
Sized for wherever you're posting
Pick the ground, then pick the canvas. Nine aspect ratios plus named sizes, and the composition re-fits rather than being cropped.
X post1600 × 900
Instagram portrait1080 × 1350
LinkedIn post1200 × 627
Product Hunt1270 × 760
Exported exactly as previewed
Preview and export render from one Skia scene, so the gradient in the file is the gradient you picked — at 1x, 2x or a custom scale.
FormatsPNG · JPEG · WebP
Scale1x · 2x · custom
Custom canvas16 – 12000 px
Crop & rotateNon-destructive
Being straight about it
On a desktop, a free browser tool is fine
What the competition is
Mostly free web tools, and they are genuinely good
If the screenshot is already on a laptop, a browser tool will put a gradient behind it in about ten seconds and cost nothing. There is no point pretending otherwise. The catch is that it is a web tool: the image is uploaded to someone else's server to be composed.
Where this is different
The screenshot is on your phone, and so is the editor
Phone screenshots are the ones that never get tidied up, because tidying them up means emailing yourself a file first. Here it is: tap Share, tap ScreenCandy, and it opens already composed — on-device, with no account and no upload.
Pick a flavour.
Post the good version.
All 30 looks render on your own screenshot for free. Free on iOS and Android.
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