Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 5 of Belfast Telegraph News's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#047C8C bg
#278E9C
#54ACBC accent
#FFFFFF text
Reading the caption text from the screenshots in your browser…
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About this app
From the Belfast Telegraph, Northern Ireland’s trusted source for quality journalism. From breaking news and live updates to politics, business and local sport, the Belfast Telegraph app brings you the stories shaping Northern Ireland. Stay close to the issues that matter with exclusive reporting, compelling investigations, long reads and trusted commentary from the award-winning journalists of the Belfast Telegraph and Sunday Life. Features: - Exclusive journalism you will not find elsewhere - In-depth reporting on Stormont and local politics - Breaking news and live updates as stories unfold - Crime, sport, business, lifestyle and entertainment coverage - Latest podcast episodes and exclusive series - Daily puzzles - A clean, intuitive design for easy reading, listening and discovery The app is free to download. Registration is required to read some articles. A subscription unlo…
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What you can learn from Belfast Telegraph 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 5 screenshots above are Belfast Telegraph News's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Belfast Telegraph News runs a mixed light-and-dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #047C8C) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #54ACBC, 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.
Take what works into your own screenshots
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Open the screenshot editor →Apps with a similar look
Closest background + accent colours among the listings we've analysed — useful when you want to see the same palette handled by a different team.