Sampled from 5 of Beehive News's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#DCD4CC bg
#C1BAB3
#543C24 accent
#111111 text
Beehive News is the only large-scale news rating platform in the world. It's the only place where you can find thousands of daily ratings on all articles published by top UK and international publications, from left to right, allowing you to escape all media bias and choose only the best to read. TRULY RELIABLE All of our thousands of daily ratings come with detail assessments so that you can spot flaws and biases yourself and come to your own conclusions. Beehive has no influence over these assessments; they are entirely generated by a combination of objective, AI-powered algorithms and Smart User Ratings. Visit the FAQ section of our website to find out more about our ratings. RELEVANT Apart from traditional news categories, articles are classified in trending, remarkable, and controversial, helping you easily find news that truly matter and avoid the overwhelming dose of daily …
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 Beehive News's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Beehive News runs a light set with one background colour (#DCD4CC) 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, #543C24, 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 News apps approach the same problem? Browse more News 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.