Play Store Screenshot Sizes: Every Required Dimension

Google Play has six possible screenshot categories, each with its own dimensions, aspect ratios, and minimum/maximum file counts. Submit the wrong size and your upload is rejected. Submit too few and your listing looks unfinished. Here is every dimension, what it's for, and what to do if you only have phone screenshots.

Phone screenshots

Required. Minimum 2, maximum 8. Aspect ratio between 16:9 and 9:16. Recommended size: 1080 × 1920 (portrait) or 1920 × 1080 (landscape). Minimum dimension on either side: 320 pixels. Maximum: 3840 pixels. JPEG or 24-bit PNG, no alpha.

Phone screenshots are non-negotiable. They appear on every device that views your listing. Two is the absolute minimum to publish — three to five is the sweet spot.

7-inch tablet screenshots

Optional but strongly recommended. Up to 8 screenshots, between 16:9 and 9:16 aspect. Common size: 1200 × 1920 portrait. If your app has a tablet-specific layout, show it. If your app just stretches the phone UI, you can omit these — but Google's ranking algorithm slightly favors apps with tablet screenshots.

10-inch tablet screenshots

Optional. Up to 8. Common size: 1600 × 2560 portrait or 2560 × 1600 landscape. Same considerations as 7-inch: include if your app has a real tablet layout, skip otherwise.

Android TV screenshots

Required only if you target Android TV. Up to 8. Landscape only, exactly 1920 × 1080. TV screenshots are taken from inside the TV emulator or device, not resized from phone captures.

Wear OS screenshots

Required only if you target Wear OS. Up to 8. Square, typically 400 × 400 or 384 × 384. Captured from the watch face or watch emulator.

Chromebook screenshots

Optional and rarely seen. Up to 8 landscape screenshots at 1280 × 800 or similar. Worth including only if your app has a Chromebook-optimized layout.

The padded-screenshot trick

You don't have a 7-inch tablet but want to include tablet screenshots for the ranking boost? Pad your phone screenshots with a solid-color background to hit tablet aspect ratios. This is technically allowed and unfortunately common. The wizard's asset studio does this automatically — your phone screenshot becomes a centered image on a brand-colored background sized to whichever tablet dimension you need.

Padded screenshots look slightly worse than real tablet captures but better than missing tablet screenshots entirely. Google's ranking signal seems to count any tablet screenshot regardless of whether it's padded.

What to put in your screenshots

Lead with your hero screen — the screen that immediately communicates what the app does. Not the login screen, not the loading screen, not a marketing collage. Show the actual product.

Annotated screenshots (caption text overlaid on top, explaining what feature is shown) convert 30–60% better than unannotated. Keep annotations short — three or four words max. Pick a single brand color for annotations and stick to it.

Common rejection reasons

• Dimensions outside the allowed range.
• Screenshots that include UI from other apps (e.g. the Android status bar still showing other notifications).
• Screenshots that show competing brands or copyrighted content you don't own.
• Misleading screenshots — showing features the app does not actually have.
• Promotional copy that promises something the app doesn't deliver.

How the wizard handles this

Drop your phone screenshots in Step 3. The asset studio auto-resizes them to every required dimension: phone (multiple aspect ratios if needed), 7-inch tablet, 10-inch tablet. You get a ZIP with everything labeled and named correctly for direct upload to Play Console.