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Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 6 of Hardcover.app's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#1C2434 bg
#3B4250
#FCBC24 accent
#FFFFFF text
- #12 Hardcover Rook =
- #2Build a library you're proud of. Or import it from other book apps.
- #3Track your reading like a pro.
- #4Follow lists or create your own.
- #5Unlock powerful book stats for insights into
- #6Answer prompts and vote for books.
Captions read from the screenshots (OCR, may contain small errors): 6 headlines, 7 words on average (longest 13), 50% speak to "you".
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About this app
Hardcover is a book tracking app with a social side, built for readers, not algorithms. Add books you’ve read or want to read. Keep your library tidy with lists and tags. See what your friends are reading, explore trending picks, and discover hidden gems through curated lists. Rate, review, and share your thoughts. Make your profile public, private, or friends-only—your reading, your rules. Set goals, track your stats, and find your reading rhythm. We use Apple's standard Terms of Service (EULA). https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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What you can learn from Hardcover.app
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 16 screenshots above are Hardcover.app's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Hardcover.app runs a dark set with one background colour (#1C2434) 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, #FCBC24, 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.