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Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 4 of SkyView® Lite's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#3C4C6C bg
#576580
#A46C64 accent
#FFFFFF text
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About this app
SkyView® Lite brings stargazing to everyone! Simply point your iPhone, iPad, or iPod at the sky to identify stars, constellations, satellites, and more! Downloaded over 40 million times. If you like our lite version of SkyView then you'll love our full version! It includes: a convenient Apple Watch app, a Today Widget displaying tonight's brightest objects, ALL in-app purchases offered in this version, thousands more objects to discover, and more! App Store Best of 2012 App Store Rewind 2011 -- Best Education App “If you've ever wanted to know what you're looking at in the night sky, this app is the perfect stargazer's companion.” – CNET "If you’ve ever been looking for a stargazing app for your iPhone, then this [is] definitely the one to get." – AppAdvice “SkyView is an Augmented Reality app that lets you see just what delights the sky has to offer.” – 148Apps Editor’s Choi…
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What you can learn from SkyView® Lite
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 9 screenshots above are SkyView® Lite's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: SkyView® Lite runs a dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #3C4C6C) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #A46C64, 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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