Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 6 of Daily Dispatch E-Edition's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#1C1C1C bg
#3B3B3B
#045C74 accent
#FFFFFF text
- #3Daily Dispatch Tue, Jun 11,2019 Tue, Dec 7, 2010
- #4Tue, Jun 11, 2019 > Auto Delivery [) Latest Issues
- #5: = 2 News 8 Business
Captions read from the screenshots (OCR, may contain small errors): 3 headlines, 8.3 words on average (longest 10).
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About this app
Daily Dispatch is the only investigative newspaper based in East London, Eastern Cape. The newspaper has won multiple national and international awards. Started in 1872, Daily Dispatch is a highly influential voice for the people of the Eastern Cape from the cities of East London and Mthatha to the far-flung rural parts of the province. It is produced six days a week with a core focus on local content - from boxing to politics, homegrown entrepreneurs to the arts - while also providing engaging top national and international stories. No matter where you are in South Africa, this press reader app will distinctly connect you with the Eastern Cape. It allows Daily Dispatch subscribers to read DispatchLIVE breaking news content (an exact replica of the printed newspaper, sold at R6.99). Monthly online and print subscriptions are available on DispatchLIVE.co.za
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What you can learn from Daily Dispatch E-Edition
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 13 screenshots above are Daily Dispatch E-Edition's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Daily Dispatch E-Edition runs a dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #1C1C1C) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #045C74, 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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