Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 5 of Water Storages's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#1C94D4 bg
#3BA2DA
#04448C accent
#FFFFFF text
Reading the caption text from the screenshots in your browser…
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About this app
Get a daily view of Melbourne’s dam and catchment levels, from Melbourne Water. With the Melbourne’s Water Storages app you can access up to date information on Melbourne’s dam storage levels, catchment rainfall and daily water usage. DAM STORAGE LEVELS View the latest storage levels for all of Melbourne’s dams and see how it compares to historical levels. CATCHMENT RAINFALL See our main catchments rainfall data, for yesterday, last week or last month. WATER USE Discover how much water the average Melburnian uses and how that compares to Melbourne’s Target 150. Learn more about water restrictions and get daily water saving tips.
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What you can learn from Water Storages
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 Water Storages's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Water Storages runs a dark set with one background colour (#1C94D4) 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, #04448C, 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.