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Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 5 of Book of the Month's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#0C6CA4 bg
#2E80B0
#F43444 accent
#FFFFFF text
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About this app
Every month, we bring you a shortlist of the best new fiction we’ve come across, with a mix of books likely to be in your sweet spot as well as intriguing outliers. You pick what speaks to you, we send it your way. We’ll see you again in four weeks. Happy reading :) More than just books: Get access to app exclusive content like reviewing the books you’re loving, tracking your path to rewards, and crushing digital challenges (for IRL prizes). Read with your ears: Fit curated audiobooks from every genre into your commute, errands, trips, chores, and relaxation. We make big breaks happen: We’re committed to celebrating and championing emerging authors. Listen to our authors on our podcast, Virtual Book Tour. This app was designed and developed in-house by Book of the Month in New York, NY.
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What you can learn from Book of the Month
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 Book of the Month's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Book of the Month runs a mixed light-and-dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #0C6CA4) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #F43444, 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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