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Screenshot changes — detected by LaunchShots
Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 6 of MyObservatory's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#FCFCFC bg
#DDDDDD
#4C5C84 accent
#111111 text
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About this app
The “MyObservatory” is a highly popular weather app providing personalized weather services. The app provides current weather including temperature, relative humidity, rainfall, wind direction and speed, as well as weather photograph collected from nearby weather stations at user's location, specified location, or selected weather stations. Weather photos and rainfall data will be updated at 5-minute and 15-minute intervals respectively. Other data will be updated in 10-minute interval and the update time will be displayed at the bottom of the front page. Points to note: 1. The notification service of weather warnings, Special Weather Tips, and Location-based Rain Forecast is provided through the Apple Push Notification service (APNs). The Hong Kong Observatory cannot guarantee the reception of the above notifications by users. Users should not rely on the mobile app as the only me…
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What you can learn from MyObservatory
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 MyObservatory's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: MyObservatory runs a mixed light-and-dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #FCFCFC) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #4C5C84, 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.
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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.