Screenhance vs Previewed

Previewed earned its reputation in the indie iOS community for a reason. The device frames are clean, the iPhone bezels are pixel-accurate, and for a solo developer shipping a side project to TestFlight, it's a tool that respects your time and your aesthetics. There's a real argument that if you only ever ship one platform and your launch surface is a personal blog plus an App Store listing, Previewed is the simplest path from screenshot to hero shot.

The argument starts to wobble the moment a second platform enters the picture. The 2026 reality for most indie apps is multi-target: an iOS build, a watchOS companion, an Android port someone keeps asking for, a marketing site that needs a MacBook hero on the homepage, an OG card for the Show HN post, a Product Hunt opener that needs to loop. Previewed's focused, iOS-first design means each of those becomes a side quest in another tool. Screenhance was built to be the one tool the side quests collapse into — every device frame in one place, every export size in one batch, animation as a checkbox.

The other thing teams notice once they have more than one person touching launch assets: Previewed assumes a single user. There's no shared template, no brand library, no "designer drafts it, founder finalises it" workflow. Screenhance's team workspaces handle that natively, which matters once your launch loop involves two humans instead of one. Pricing — $8/month or a $6 Week Pass versus Previewed's $12+/month subscription-only — closes the case for most teams running real launches.

A useful test for any tool you're going to depend on is: what shipped in the last twelve months? Previewed has historically been steady — frame updates when new iPhones launch, occasional UI polish, the device library deepening at the edges. That's a fine cadence for a mature mockup tool, but it's a cadence that's slowly being lapped by tools rebuilding around launch workflows rather than individual mockups.

Screenhance's 2026 cycle pushed in a different direction: a rebuilt App Store screenshot exporter that hits every Apple size from one source, expanded animated export presets for Product Hunt openers, multi-language screenshot batching for international App Store submissions, and a new templates library aimed specifically at SaaS landing-page heroes and changelog announcements. These are not headline features in a vacuum — they're the four things that determine whether a launch ships on Tuesday or slips to Thursday.

None of this means Previewed is going away. It means the bet on Previewed is a bet that mockup-as-an-end-product is enough. The bet on Screenhance is that mockups are an input to a launch, and the launch is what needs the tooling. If you're a developer whose deliverable is the screenshot itself, Previewed wins. If your deliverable is the shipped launch, Screenhance is where the cycle is moving.

A Previewed-to-Screenhance switch is one of the cleaner migrations in the mockup-tool category because there is almost nothing to migrate. Previewed exports flat PNGs, your source screenshots live in your repo or Figma file, and the rest is style. The actual unit of work is rebuilding the three or four compositions you reach for repeatedly — typically a hero device frame, a feature comparison shot, and a Twitter-sized social card. Most makers do all three in under two hours, and they end up with templates rather than ad-hoc compositions, which speeds every subsequent launch.

The pricing math is worth running explicitly. Previewed is subscription-only starting at $12 a month, so $144 a year on the monthly plan. Screenhance is $8 a month on the same cadence, so $96 a year — a $48 annual delta, before counting that the Week Pass at $6 once exists for the case where you only ship one or two launches a quarter. For a solo indie hacker shipping three launches a year, the Week Pass route costs $18 annually versus Previewed's $144. That gap covers a domain, a year of email hosting, or a third of a Plausible subscription, which for an indie launch budget is not nothing.

The harder number to put a value on is the team-workflow difference. Previewed assumes a single user; Screenhance team workspaces let a designer draft a screenshot, a founder edit the caption, and a marketer queue the export, all against the same shared template. For solo developers, that is irrelevant. For a two-or-three-person SaaS team with a founder, a designer, and someone who handles launch marketing, the workflow change is bigger than the price change. The combined effect — pricing, workflow, scope of launch-ready templates, animated exports — is what tips most teams over once they look honestly at how many people touch a launch.