before.click

At a glance

before.click is a reference gallery for App Store screenshots and captured onboarding/paywall screens. It is useful when you need to compare how apps introduce themselves, frame a benefit or ask for an account. The sequence view is more informative than an isolated attractive screenshot, though it supplies examples rather than evidence that a design converts or works well for users.

Good fit

Designers and app builders forming a visual direction or reviewing the order of an introduction. Filters separate platforms, categories and reference types. In the trial, Onboarding led to a 24-screen captured sequence with app attribution and an App Store link. Seeing adjacent screens helps you ask where explanation or commitment enters the flow.

Consider something else when

You need an interactive test of the original app, performance data, a usability study or permission to reuse the artwork. A captured sequence cannot establish the experience on a device, and a copy button is not a reuse licence. Best Designs on X is another reference source when broader interface and motion examples suit the task.

Start here

Select Onboarding, open a relevant app and compare its sequence before borrowing a pattern. Saving one sequence worked without sign-in in our trial; unchecking Saved removed the temporary item. Persistence across browsers was not tested. No screenshot was copied or downloaded, and no collection, subscription or request was submitted.

Cost and requirements

The inspected gallery, detail and temporary save opened without payment or an account. Sponsor placements appear alongside the references. The linked MIT-licensed before-skills repository separately offers agent instructions for App Store listing work. Its licence does not cover all artwork displayed in the gallery, and the skill was not installed or tested.

Limits to know

Reference freshness and an app’s store rating do not validate the design. Research covered one filter/detail/save-and-undo workflow plus the optional skill’s README/licence, not every category or an ASO outcome. Use the gallery to develop a hypothesis, then check it against the people and task your own app serves.

Related work

• Best Designs on X: broader interface and motion inspiration (alternative)