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Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 6 of The Official MTA App's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#040404 bg
#272727
#94449C accent
#FFFFFF text
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About this app
Get live transit updates straight from the source. The official MTA app is the best way to get real-time arrival info for subways and buses, plus service status updates, maps, a live customer service chat, and more. • Know exactly when the next train or bus is coming with our up-to-the-minute arrival board for every station and stop in the system. • Reliable real-time information from the MTA, with a new Status tab to quickly see on any service issues. • Save a subway line or bus route for easy and quick access to arrival info and status updates for your frequently used stops and stations. • See real-time service updates, planned service changes, and information about elevator and escalator outages. • Our live customer service chat connects you with an MTA employee who can help you with your ride. The MTA app is built by MTA riders for MTA riders. We update the app regularly base…
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What you can learn from The Official MTA App
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 8 screenshots above are The Official MTA App's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: The Official MTA App runs a dark set with one background colour (#040404) carried across every screenshot — the listing reads as a single poster when the shots sit side by side in search results. The accent colour we picked up, #94449C, 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.
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