Sampled from 2 of Store Switch's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#F4F4F4 bg
#D6D6D6
#1C3CA4 accent
#111111 text
Captions read from the screenshots (OCR, may contain small errors): 1 headline, 4 words on average (longest 4).
Store Switch is the best way for developers to view their apps in multiple regions. Easily check for features, ranks and more. - Quickly switch regions to view ranks and features around the world. - Search for your own apps and bookmark them for quick access. - Favourite your most commonly used regions. - Create Home Screen widgets to easily change regions.
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 4 screenshots above are Store Switch's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Store Switch runs a light set with one background colour (#F4F4F4) 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, #1C3CA4, 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 Developer Tools apps approach the same problem? Browse more Developer Tools apps in the showcase.
Open LaunchShots and design your App Store & Google Play screenshots — pick a device frame, drop captions, ship in minutes. Free, in your browser.
Open the screenshot editor →Closest background + accent colours among the listings we've analysed — useful when you want to see the same palette handled by a different team.