Learn Rotato
Showcase anything with Rotato
From your first mockup to a finished movie. Short, practical guides for every step.
Add your design and save an image.
Make it moveBuild an animation, one step at a time.
Quick Start
- Explore what’s new in Rotato
Find the new tools for animation, lighting, and screen content.
- Make your first mockup video
Create a short camera move and export it as a movie.
- Make your first mockup
Choose a device, add your design, and export a still.
- Find your way around the timeline
Understand which track owns each part of the movie.
- Keep an in-app tutorial visible while you work
Pop a tutorial video into a resizable window.
Editing Mockup Devices
- Give each device its own clay finish
Simplify one device without changing every device in the scene.
- Select a device that is hard to reach
Find the right device even when it is behind another object or outside the frame.
- Start from a device pose
Choose a useful starting orientation for a phone, laptop, or folding device.
- Duplicate device
Create another device from the selected device’s setup.
- Add multiple devices to a scene
Show the same design across several devices in one composition.
- Change the device in your scene
Reuse an existing scene with a different phone, tablet, or laptop.
- Choose watch case and band colors
Set independent case and band colors on supported watches.
Importing
- Importing a custom 3D model
Showcase your own hardware
- Importing an image
Put a screenshot or design on a device’s screen.
- Using a video on the mockup device
Show a screen recording inside a device mockup.
- Put different media on each display
Choose screen content for a device with more than one display, like the iPhone Duo.
- How to record or screenshot your iPhone's screen directly
Forget about Airdrop - just plug in your iPhone and start streaming to Rotato
- Replace a screen clip without rebuilding its timing
Change one image or video in an existing screen sequence.
- Find and copy screen dimensions
Prepare artwork for the selected device and orientation.
- Take screenshots directly from your iPhone
Quit spending hours transferring screenshots from your phone with live phone streaming
- Add music or narration
Place and time audio clips on the timeline.
Editing
- Using a 3D background image
Add depth with your own reflections
- Add an image to the scene
Add your app icon, logo, or some text
- Adding text labels
Tell your story and point out your benefits with text labels - with 3D effects!
- Change device colors, clay, and reflections
Style each device independently.
- Adjusting the 3D perspective
How to dial in the perspective effect to match your style
- Blend your mockup into its background
Soften the edges of a hero image with Fade
- Moving the camera
Find the perfect angle just by moving your mouse or typing in a number
- Change the reflection environment
Choose the surroundings reflected in glass and metal.
- Pick a device scene
Use any device you want, including iPhones or generic devices
- Combine devices or finished renders
Build a shared scene or composite separate outputs.
- Add and soften a custom shadow
Ground devices with a shadow that suits the composition.
- Enabling and animating depth of field (focus blur)
Guide the viewer's eye to the tiny, great details in your design
- Give your screen a desktop
Frame your work with a wallpaper, browser window and Dock
- Duplicate and align text or images
Build a consistent set of titles and graphics on the canvas.
- Change the movie duration
Set the ending and check every track.
- Show the environment behind your mockup
Use the surrounding environment as a visible 3D backdrop.
- Add a logo or image overlay
Keep a graphic in the frame while your mockup moves.
- Using landscape mode
Get the right orientation for your landscape orientation designs
- Using multiple screenshots or videos in the same clip
Render videos where the screen contents on the 3D device changes during the animation
- Record a screen video without animation
Lend all the focus to your screen recording, without animation
- Preview your scene with path tracing
See reflections and studio shadows while composing your scene
- Changing the mockup scene background
Breathe some life into the background of your mockup scene
- Scrolling an image on the mockup display
Animate a tall screenshot on a device’s Screen Scroll track.
- Add a background behind a title
Keep text readable over a busy scene.
- Add a 2D title
Place text on the canvas and choose when it appears.
- Varying the rotation speed
Rotate slow when the screen is facing the user, and fast when the back of the device is facing the user
Animating
- Animate one device independently
Move a phone while the camera and other devices stay still.
- Animating your mock-ups with the timeline
Bring dead mockups to life with the easiest timeline feature in the 3D industry
- Animate exploded design layers
Reveal a Figma design layer by layer in 3D.
- Easing
Decide how smoothly you want your animations to go
- Animate a folding device
Control a fold separately from device movement and screen content.
- Make a jump cut between camera views
Switch angles instantly, or hold a view between movements.
- Open and close the laptop
Open the laptop with the canvas rotation ring or inspector, then animate a reveal
- Animate a title between keyframes
Control the position and appearance of a 2D overlay over time.
- Give animation properties different timing
Let position, rotation, or another property settle at a different time.
- Share keyframes with other designers
Never make the same animation twice with keyframe loading and saving
- Animate a title with a preset
Give a title an entrance and exit without building every movement by hand.
- Select and edit the right keyframes
Use the playhead and edge diamonds to make predictable edits.
- Align animations on the timeline
Start a title, device move, and screen change together.
Exporting
- Rendering multiple screenshots in a batch
Render as many mockups as you need in one go
- Export WebP and AVIF images
Save mockup stills in modern image formats for the web.
- Export a PNG image with a transparent background
Blend in nicely with other design elements using a transparent PNG
- Using your mockup animation on web pages
Export a frame-based animation for a compatible Lottie player.
- Render an image with path tracing
Let glass and metal reflect the other devices in your scene
- Render a video with path tracing
Keep reflections between devices as your animation moves
- Importing a PNG sequence in After Effects
Get a sequence of individual frames as images into Adobe After Effects and use them as a combined video clip. Also works with a transparent background.
- Rendering an animation as a PNG sequence
Export each frame as a full resolution PNG image file, also works with transparency
- Giving a presentation with your Rotato animation
Level up your presentations with buttery smooth 60fps real-time 3D mockup animations that only take a few minutes to prepare
- Adjusting quality and memory usage
Rotato chooses a memory profile by default, but you can change it
- Saving your animation as a video
Share your work in butter smooth high-resolution video
- Changing the size and resolution of your exported videos or images
Get the output format right with the fine-grained resolution picker for both images, videos and web animations
- Create and render mockups with the Rotato CLI
Automate repeatable mockup work and give an AI agent access to Rotato.
- Export a snapshot
Render the scene at the current playhead time.
- Using Rotato videos with alpha transparency in After Effects
Preserve the alpha channel in your Rotato video and work with your background-less Rotato renders in After Effects
- Make a video with a transparent background
Make your mock a natural part of its surroundings with a transparent background
Figma
- Copy a device-sized frame into Figma
Start your design with the dimensions of the display you will use.
- How to create 3D mockups without leaving Figma
Instantly wrap your Figma design in a 3D device mockup
- Mockup in Figma - installing the plugin
How to install Rotato for Figma and create 3D mockups in a single click
- How to create an exploded design in Figma
Learn how to show off the layers of your design with a dynamic, 3D-style exploded view.
- How to add iPhone screenshots to Figma using Rotato
Quickly capture and place real iPhone screenshots into your Figma designs—using the free Rotato plugin.
App Store Screenshots
Orders & Licenses
- How to activate Rotato
Remove the red Rotato tag with your license code
- Deactivated license
How to reactivate your license
- Can't activate license
How to reset your license
- Can't find license
How to get it
- Deactivating and moving to another computer
Got a new Mac and want to use Rotato there instead? Here's how.
- Getting help with an order
Our customer service is standing by
- Receipts and invoices
How to get them
- Send useful details to Rotato support
Prepare a small reproducible example and the right app details.
Using Templates
- Creating a template
Quickly make a new template from scratch or an existing project
- Installing a template
The templates library contains all templates you’ve used
- Installing a template bundle
You can install an entire template bundle in Rotato
- Modifying a template
When you improve on a template, you can overwrite the old version
- Renaming a template
Give a reusable scene a clear filename while keeping its template contents
- Uninstalling a template
You can easily remove templates from Rotato’s library
- Opening and using a template
Introducing the template library
Troubleshooting
- License not working on Rotato Web
- USB screen mirroring not working
Check the connection and permissions for a connected iPhone.
- Seeing the watermark
- Transparent video not transparent on site builders like Squarespace
What to check when a transparent video turns solid after uploading it to Squarespace or another site builder
- Dragged in video not playing correctly
Videos are complex, and sometimes they don't play well. Here's an easy fix
Still need a hand? Email help@rotato.app.