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A new look for screeenly
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 SZ Stefan Zweifel · Nov 6, 2026 · 2 min read 

screeenly has a new design. The website, the dashboard and every email we send look different starting today. This post lists what changed and links to the posts with the details.

The website
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Every feature now has its own page: [screenshots](https://3.screeenly.com/features/screenshots), [PDFs](https://3.screeenly.com/features/pdf), [your own HTML](https://3.screeenly.com/features/your-own-html), [rendered HTML](https://3.screeenly.com/features/rendered-html) and the [MCP server](https://3.screeenly.com/features/mcp). Each page lists the options, code you can copy and the questions we get most often.

We also added [comparisons](https://3.screeenly.com/compare) with other screenshot APIs. They include the cases where another service fits better.

The dashboard
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The dashboard was rebuilt from scratch. It shows your free requests, your plan allowance and your credit balance in one place, and the request log shows whether a request came from the API, the MCP server or the playground.

Some pages moved:

- Billing, credits and receipts: `/app/billing`
- Account settings: `/app/account`
- Request log: `/app/request-log`

New accounts get a checklist that walks them from the first API token to the first request. The playground can copy any request as curl, as PHP, or as a prompt you can paste into your agent.

A free plan instead of the trial
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Every account gets 100 free requests a month, and you can buy credits for the months you need more. We wrote about it in [screeenly now has a free plan](https://3.screeenly.com/blog/free-plan).

Changes to the API
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Two changes can affect code that already uses the API:

- **Identical requests return the stored result for free.** The response is `200` with `X-Cache: HIT` instead of a new render with `201`. Send `cache=false` to render again.
- **Files are kept for 24 hours instead of 60 minutes.**

The details, and the other API changes, are in [Identical requests are now free](https://3.screeenly.com/blog/caching) and [API changes in November 2026](https://3.screeenly.com/blog/api-changes-november-2026).

Screenshots for your agent
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screeenly now runs an MCP server, so Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients can take screenshots and create PDFs with your API token. See [Let your agent take screenshots](https://3.screeenly.com/blog/mcp-server).

Our numbers
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screeenly started as an open source project in July 2014 and has handled more than 21 million requests since. The [open startup page](https://3.screeenly.com/open) shows revenue, users and requests per month.

If something looks broken or works differently than before, email support@screeenly.com.

 SZ

[Stefan Zweifel](https://stefanzweifel.dev) is a fullstack developer based in Zurich, Switzerland and the creator of screeenly.

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