Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 5 of WeatherSmart's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#043C6C bg
#275780
#6C8CAC accent
#FFFFFF text
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About this app
WeatherSmart, from the South African Weather Service (SAWS), provides you with severe weather warnings and other handy weather information for your immediate surroundings and other areas. WeatherSmart includes the following features and options: • Severe weather warnings • Weather conditions and forecast for your current location. • Search for and add other locations. • A seven day forecast for all your selected locations. • Minimum & maximum temperature(s). • Wind direction(s). • Weather notices, warnings and alerts. • Customise settings according to your needs: - Edit My Locations - Do Not Disturb Times - Weather Update Frequency Disclaimer: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. This application only supports iOS 8+.
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What you can learn from WeatherSmart
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 9 screenshots above are WeatherSmart's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: WeatherSmart runs a mixed light-and-dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #043C6C) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #6C8CAC, 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 Weather apps approach the same problem? Browse more Weather 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.