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Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 6 of makromusic: Dating for Spotify's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#141414 bg
#343434
#74ECF4 accent
#FFFFFF text
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About this app
Chatting with people who have the same music taste as you is more fun, right? With makromusic, you can easily find people listening to the same music at the same time as you. You can match and meet with them instantly. More? You can share posts about your favorite artists and tracks while having new friends. You don't even have to sign up, using your Spotify account to be connected would be enough. Also, it is totally free! If you want, you can match according to your profile or music you listen to instantly. How is it? By connecting with your Spotify account, you actively share with us or share your favorite artists and songs that you have listened to before. We also match you with the people who are closest to your taste or listen to the same music at the same time. You can start chatting after viewing the profiles of the people you match with. makromusic is designed in the best …
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What you can learn from makromusic: Dating for Spotify
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 20 screenshots above are makromusic: Dating for Spotify's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: makromusic: Dating for Spotify runs a mixed light-and-dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #141414) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #74ECF4, 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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