Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 3 of Screenshot-Make's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#54D4FC bg
#49BADD
#4484D4 accent
#111111 text
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iPad screenshots
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About this app
Quickly generate screenshots for your app submission. Generate an image with a beautiful frame and one line of text you enter. This app supports generating screenshots for: - iPhone 8 Plus (Portrait only) - iPhone X / XR / XS / XS Max / 11 Pro (Portrait only) - iPad Pro (11 inch, 12.9 inch) (Portrait only) Note: You have to run this application on the same device that you captured the screenshot on. For example, you can take a screenshot on your iPhone X, and run this application to generate an store image with that screenshot.
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What you can learn from Screenshot-Make
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 6 screenshots above are Screenshot-Make's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Screenshot-Make runs a light set with one background colour (#54D4FC) 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, #4484D4, 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.
Take what works into your own screenshots
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 →Apps with a similar look
Closest background + accent colours among the listings we've analysed — useful when you want to see the same palette handled by a different team.