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Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 5 of Open Source & Software News's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#243444 bg
#42505E
#8C5434 accent
#FFFFFF text
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About this app
See all the latest news about Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora), Containers (Docker, CoreOS), Web development platforms and frameworks (node.js, Bootstrap), Databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) and many others aggregated across dozens of news outlets, sites and blogs. Skim quickly over the recent news and save specific items for review later. Save hours weekly by seeing all news items from the most popular websites in one place, without compromising on content quality. Features: - Full coverage from top software news sources in one app - a clean, prioritized feed and no repeat stories - Push notifications - specific topics that interest you, or prominent events - Topics management - choose your favorite topics (like "Debian" or "SQLite"), block certain topics and choose the topics you want to get notifications about! Read only what you want, get notified on only what interests you, and the …
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What you can learn from Open Source & Software News
Every shipping app on the App Store has gone through the same decisions you're working through right now: which screenshot goes first, what caption sits over it, which device frame to show, what color the background should be. The 10 screenshots above are Open Source & Software News's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Open Source & Software News runs a mixed light-and-dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #243444) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #8C5434, is the one to reuse for badges, arrows and highlighted words if you borrow this look. Hit Use this style to open the editor with these exact colours and drop your own screenshot in.
Notice the first screenshot in particular. It's the one users see in search results and on the product page, and it's where most apps spend their best caption and tightest design. Look at the proportion of background to phone, where the text sits, what one thing the image is trying to communicate.
Want to see how other News apps approach the same problem? Browse more News apps in the showcase.
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Closest background + accent colours among the listings we've analysed — useful when you want to see the same palette handled by a different team.