Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 5 of African TV: African television's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#94241C bg
#A2423B
#048C44 accent
#FFFFFF text
Reading the caption text from the screenshots in your browser…
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About this app
African TV is a stunning app which enables you to watch the latest live news and entertainment. It is a free application which provides you perfect opportunity to watch live television of all African countries around the world. You can directly access your favorite television channels and watch diverse news, films, talk shows, programs etc. from your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch anywhere and anytime. NOTE If you find troubles/questions with the TV channels presented in this app, don’t hesitate to notify us by email or web-site. All time we are looking forward to hearing the claims, questions and advices from users
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What you can learn from African TV: African television
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 African TV: African television's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: African TV: African television runs a dark set with one background colour (#94241C) 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, #048C44, 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.