simshot
App Store screenshots from the iOS Simulator — no XCUITest
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simshot is a CLI that captures App Store-ready screenshots from the iOS Simulator using simctl only — no XCUITest, no flaky test runners, no hangs. Instead of a test runner driving the UI, the app navigates to each scene via a tiny #if DEBUG launch-arg handler. simshot handles the rest: build, boot simulators, status bar override (9:41, 100%), capture, and resize. Highlights: no XCUITest, hard timeout + retry, built-in status bar override, multi-language via --langs, zero deps, macOS 13+.
PH · launched Oct 22, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 22%) · 0 views
Niche: screenshot capture and mockup tools · 215 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -24% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
- Tech
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a CLI that wraps standard iOS Simulator tooling (simctl) and adds a small DEBUG-only launch-argument handler in the app. Scripting around simctl and writing a Swift handler are well within reach of AI-assisted coding.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 276 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #69 of 277 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 344 days after the earliest competitor.
- App Store Screenshots · ph · 2026-10-28 · 105 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Free App Screenshots · ph · 2026-09-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- StoreFront Studio · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Screenpane · ph · 2026-09-29 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Orbshot · ph · 2026-09-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Shotie · ph · 2026-10-12 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Storescreens · ph · 2026-09-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Storeshot · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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