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Rishi Mohan

Pika - Turn boring screenshots into beautiful shareable images

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Pika free and open-source web app to quickly beautify your screenshots. You can add background gradients, tweak shadows, add rounded corners, tweak spacing and more. You can save the image as PNG file or copy it to clipboard.

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Rishi Mohan
Maker
Hola makers! I'm Rishi(https://twitter.com/thelifeofrishi) and I built this quick tool to transform boring screenshots into beautiful shareable screenshots. I do that a lot and till now I had this workflow in Figma where I used to paste the screenshot and then figured out the background gradient and all that stuff, it definitely was time consuming. So I built Pika to make this process quick and easy. In just couple clicks you can generate shareable screenshots and then copy it to clipboard, or export it to your system. It doesn't upload your screenshot anywhere, so no need to worry about anything. Let me know what you think of it :)
Jai Thakur
@qaplen Dude love your nifty app!! super slick. pls add few more things like auto cropping out the windows borders, menu bar, bookmarks, etc. few arrows, and text boxes, tie it up together and you have a complete product to make explainer screenshots and videos! LOVE IT. and the name! I had a product called Pippa πŸ•
Rishi Mohan
Maker
@jaithakur Thanks Jai, I've it planned to fix window border/shadow issue for sure. Thanks for other suggestions too I'll surely see for those, Pippa is a nice fun name for a product :)
Dawn Veltri
Love this! Can I customize the gradient backgrounds to match our branding?
Rishi Mohan
Maker
@dawn_veltri1 Not currently but soon you'll be able to, I'm going to work on custom background colors and gradients :)
Rishi Mohan
Maker
@dawn_veltri1 Hi Dawn, now you can customise the background gradient colours, try it out and let me know :)
Rishi Mohan
Maker
@dawn_veltri1 Thanks Dawn, I've also updated the layout of the app and shifted the options to the right to accommodate more options in future, it's also responsive now and can be used on mobile screens, let me know what you think of it :)
Dawn Veltri
@qaplen Love the new layout. How are you planning to monetize it? Will you be charging as you add new features?
Rishi Mohan
Maker
@dawn_veltri1 To be honest I don't feel like monetising it or yet, want to keep it free and open-source. Maybe in future :)
Burak KantarcΔ±
Will definetly use it for our user docs! It'd be nice to drag & drop the image
Rishi Mohan
Maker
@kantarci Drag-n-drop would be nice, will work on it :)
Farokh Shahabi
I like the simplicity, love to see cases as well as covers: iPhone, iPad, Laptops, etc.
Rishi Mohan
Maker
@farokh_shahabi Thanks Farokh for the feedback! I'll definitely add it in the roadmap :)
Erik Meijerink
Very, very nice! It does EXACTLY as promised: transforming boring screenshots into beautiful shareable screenshots. Feature request: add a colour picker to create custom backgrounds that match the screenshot.
Rishi Mohan
Maker
@erikotn Thanks Erik, I've noted your suggestion! A color picker would definitely be useful, should be live by next weekend :D
Ray Hernandez
@erikotn @qaplen I was going to mention the same thing. I have a client that would LOVE this, but they would want to be able to brand it with their color scheme in the background. Great Product!
Rishi Mohan
Maker
@erikotn @raydawg88 Thanks Ray! Feel free to share Pika with your client after a week because the color-picker would definitely be live by then 😁
Rishi Mohan
Maker
@erikotn @raydawg88 Hi Ray, Erik, just want to update you can now chose custom background color as well as image for your screenshots in Pika :)
Pathange Balaji Rao
Definitely a great tool to moodboard and share in presentations to make them less boring. Would love to hear what was the usecase that you thought about or what was the problem that you wanted to solve by building this Rishi? I am asking this considering that there are a lot of other such tools, even there are some inbuilt tools in operating systems but i do agree that they have limited functionality. One very good business value proposition that i see here is for moodboarding and being able to add multiple images and pin them in one single canvas which artists would really love to have, based on my previous experience as a freelance designer there isnt a straight forward solution to this ?makers I am sure if you pick a target group and focus on a one off solution to a painpoint and build the supporting architecture then you can easily monitise Pika, Rishi If you do like my insights happy to chat and learn your roadmap to see if I can add value anywhere (calendly link in my profile bio) πŸ‘‹
Rishi Mohan
Maker
@balaji_rao1 Hi Pathange, before Pika I was using Figma to design screenshots for sharing on Twitter. It was time consuming to open Figma and select gradients, shadows etc. The intention with Pika is to quicken this process. There are other tools too but Pika is intended to be simplest and quickest to use, with no login needed, no watermarks, nothing, plus it's also open-source so one can make their own version of it :) I like your idea of being able to add multiple screenshots, I've thought about it and have it in planned. Might be a feature soon :)
Maria
Amazing tool! Congrats on the launch! ^_^ It truly can make anything looks beautiful and professional! ^_^ Is it possible to export it only as a png file, right? :))
Rishi Mohan
Maker
@maria_brm Hi Maria, currently it only exports PNG to also preserve the transparency in the background. Do you by any chance want to export in other formats too? If so, which one?
Maria
@qaplen Thank you very much for the answer Rishi! ^_^ I was thinking about jpeg, as it is easier for sharing, and due to size and quality also faster when using phone... :))
Rishi Mohan
Maker
@maria_brm Noted. I'll add support for jpeg export :)
Muhaddis
I really felt the need of it when posting my product yesterday. I went with the https://www.screely.com/ but it looks great to me! Definitely gonna try it out
Rishi Mohan
Maker
@muhammad_muhaddis Ah I posted it a day late I guess πŸ˜…, let me know how you like Pika :)
Alex Miller
Hey this looks cool. I need to add arrows and callouts and text to my screenshots all the time... will this help ?makers
Rishi Mohan
Maker
@fotoflo Hi Alex, being able to add text is planned. Though I'm not sure about arrows and callouts, I'll research a bit and see if I can add it :)
Alex Miller
@qaplen cool. This would be a replacement for Skitch for me... Are you familiar with Skitch?
Rishi Mohan
Maker
@fotoflo That's great Alex, I had used it Skitch long back but don't know what all it offers currently, I'll take a look at it.
Vishal Tailor
Hey Rishi, it's a good toolπŸ‘. Just one suggestion πŸ’‘- I think by default the padding option should have some padding applied instead of 'none' so that user can actually see the background after picking up the screenshot.
Rishi Mohan
Maker
@vt2220 Hi Vishal, missed on that, thanks for sharing! Updated :)
Dave
Cool I used your product in my own product launch previews today :D
Rishi Mohan
Maker
@leadbykeyword Hehe, thanks Dave! Pika was meant for it :)
Daniel Schramm
That looks so cool, great job Rishi!
Rishi Mohan
Maker
@danielschramm Thanks Daniel πŸ˜€
Minh-Phuc Bui
Just exactly what I need, congrats on the launch. It would be really great if you could add the option to set a custom size for the image, as sometimes the imported screenshots are not the same size.
Rishi Mohan
Maker
@phucbm Thanks Minh, I've noted your suggestion
Nico Botha
Pika is an awesome tool to create beautiful shareable images from normal screenshots. I like it and use it a lot πŸ‘πŸΌπŸ˜Ž
Rishi Mohan
Maker
@nwbotha Thanks Nico :)
Reuben Carter
Cool product
Rishi Mohan
Maker
@reuben_carter Thanks Reuben :)
Rory Sadler
Nice one @qaplen - it's very fast and easy to use. I would love it 100x more if I could upload my own colour palette which I am sure is on your roadmap :) Good luck, this has lots of potential
Rishi Mohan
Maker
@rory_sadler_trumpet Thanks Rory, that's the goal, to make the process quick! And yes I am definitely going to add custom colors, you'll probably see it live in couple days :)
Rishi Mohan
Maker
@rory_sadler_trumpet Hi Rory, just to update you on this, you can now use custom color as well as image for background in PIka :)
Jeanette Eriksson
This is pretty awesome!
Rishi Mohan
Maker
@jeanette_soderlund Thanks Jeanette!
Rishi Mohan
Maker
@sadamiak Thanks Szymon :)
Justin Mabee
Great work! Love the layout and ease of use. Will make my portfolio much nicer!
Rishi Mohan
Maker
@jmabeebiz Thanks Justin!
Judy Naamani
This looks really neat! I love the simplicity πŸ™ŒπŸΌ
Rishi Mohan
Maker
@judyn Thanks Judy :)