Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 4 of Phone repair screen color test's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#84A4FC bg
#7490DD
#84FCAC accent
#111111 text
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About this app
People often accidentally break their phone screens. So naturally, they also often have to get their phone screens replaced. The phone screens that are used as replacements in the vast majority of mobile phone repair stores are not original Apple Parts (these parts are called ‘aftermarket parts’), so they are made by many different manufacturers - meaning that the quality of these parts can vary. Sometimes, manufacturers use poor quality, cheap materials, resulting in poor quality screens that can have wildly varying prices. You could be scammed to purchase a poor quality screen for an outrageous amount of money. With the naked eye, it’s extremely difficult to measure and even estimate the quality of these screens. That’s where ColourTest comes in. ColourTest by Procase has been developed to help consumers and retailers alike with this issue. It can give an accurate, numbered measureme…
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What you can learn from Phone repair screen color test
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 7 screenshots above are Phone repair screen color test's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Phone repair screen color test runs a mixed light-and-dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #84A4FC) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #84FCAC, 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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Closest background + accent colours among the listings we've analysed — useful when you want to see the same palette handled by a different team.