Chart position — tracked daily by LaunchShots
Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 6 of CityNews's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#E4E4E4 bg
#C8C8C8
#D4342C accent
#111111 text
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About this app
Introducing the all NEW CityNews app: your best source for local news! Rebuilt from the ground up, the app is tailored to provide the breaking news and community focused information you need, when you need it. Key Features: Regional Selection: Customize your news feed based on one of nine locales across Canada, and stay connected to your community with news that matters to you. Notifications: Never miss a crucial update with personalized push notifications. Stay in the loop with breaking news, traffic, and weather alerts – all delivered straight to your device. Bookmarking: Never lose track of important stories again. Our intuitive bookmarking feature allows you to save articles for later reading. 24/7 Video Streaming: Experience our visual storytelling like never before with our 24/7 video stream. Watch breaking news, interviews, and on-the-ground reporting in real-time. Live Ra…
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What you can learn from CityNews
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 10 screenshots above are CityNews's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: CityNews runs a light set with one background colour (#E4E4E4) 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, #D4342C, 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.