Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 3 of Crimesite's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#FCFCFC bg
#DDDDDD
#F40404 accent
#111111 text
Reading the caption text from the screenshots in your browser…
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About this app
Elke dag het laatste misdaadnieuws. Crimesite is al 15 jaar een betrouwbare journalistieke bron voor alles over misdaad. Alle nieuwsberichten over moord en doodslag, drugshandel, criminele organisaties, cybercrime en nog veel meer. We schrijven ook steeds meer Plus-artikelen: langere verhalen met achtergronden, analyses en interviews. Unieke en exclusieve content die je nergens anders leest. Om die content te bekijken, vragen we om een eenmalige registratie, desgewenst anoniem. Daarvoor is alleen een e-mailadres noodzakelijk, een gebruiksnaam mag je zelf verzinnen. Weet je iets over een zaak? Tip ons met misdaadnieuws. Ben je getuige van een overval, een liquidatie of een arrestatie? Stuur ons een foto of video via email of WhatsApp.
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What you can learn from Crimesite
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 Crimesite's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Crimesite runs a light set with one background colour (#FCFCFC) 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, #F40404, 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 News apps approach the same problem? Browse more News apps in the showcase.
Take what works into your own screenshots
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 →Apps with a similar look
Closest background + accent colours among the listings we've analysed — useful when you want to see the same palette handled by a different team.