Sampled from 5 of @Thermometer's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#FCAC04 bg
#DD9703
#CCA47C accent
#111111 text
Handy, quick and accurate : the best thermometer for your iPhone / iPad The n°1 thermometer in the App Store, with over 5,000,000 downloads! @Thermometer is the most accurate application in the App Store (down to a tenth of a degree). Since 2009, @Thermometer is the ONLY application to give you the outside temperature to the nearest tenth of a degree, in line with your exact location, throughout the world and in real time. To achieve this, @Thermometer uses multiple data sources from your surrounding environment and combines them together thanks to our own unique algorithms developed on our meteorological servers. @Thermometer is NOT just another application that tells you the temperature in a nearby town, using hour-old – or even older - data... Key characteristics of the application: - Most accurate temperature in the App Store (down to a tenth of a degree) - Temperature corre…
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 11 screenshots above are @Thermometer's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: @Thermometer runs a mixed light-and-dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #FCAC04) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #CCA47C, 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 Weather apps approach the same problem? Browse more Weather 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.