How to Localize App Screenshots Without Losing Layout Quality
A practical workflow for translating captions, reviewing layouts, and exporting localized store assets.
How to Localize App Screenshots
Localization is a content and layout review process, not a one-click export task. Translate the meaning, review every locale in context, and keep the raw app capture separate from editable caption text.
Prepare the Source Set
Finish the source-language screenshot sequence before translating it. Record the benefit shown by each screen, approved product terms, and any claim that requires product or legal review. Keep captions outside the uploaded bitmap so wording and line breaks can change without recreating the source image.
Use Automatic Translation as a Draft
ASOShot provides 22 common locale presets, including separate Spanish variants for Spain and Mexico and Portuguese variants for Brazil and Portugal. Automatic translation creates a first draft. Review important markets with a fluent speaker, especially product terminology, tone, claims, and calls to action. Translation requests contain caption text and language choices; imported screenshots are not sent to the translation service.
Review the Real Composition
Open every locale in the final screenshot layout. Check wrapping, subtitle height, glyph support, contrast, text direction, safe margins, and whether the displayed app UI matches the translated caption. Prefer clearer local wording before shrinking the type.
Export and Validate
Use filenames that identify the product, store target, locale, and sequence number. Inspect one output from every selected target for exact dimensions and opacity before exporting the complete matrix. Google recommends separate visual assets for supported languages when screenshots contain text. Source: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/13393723?hl=en
Build a Localized Screenshot Set
Add the required locales, review each caption in context, and export the selected sizes after approval.
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