Chart position — tracked daily by LaunchShots
Screenshot changes — detected by LaunchShots
Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 5 of The Globe and Mail's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#F4F4F4 bg
#D6D6D6
#BC444C accent
#111111 text
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About this app
Stay informed around-the-clock with world-class, award-winning news, commentary and analysis from The Globe and Mail. Featuring: • Sign up and receive The Globe's newsletters in the app. • 'For You' section featuring customized news feed, crossword puzzles, and horoscopes. • Globe subscribers can gift up to three articles a month to family and friends. • Improved stock profile pages with graphs and more news. • Watchlist: Create and edit custom Watchlists of key stocks directly in the app with all changes synced seamlessly to the website • Commenting: Join the conversation by commenting and discussing articles • Saved articles: Bookmark your favourite articles to read later • Audio articles: Listen to select articles via the dedicated audio player • All Globe and Mail articles and sections, including subscriber-only features with a digital subscription • Latest news and top stories …
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What you can learn from The Globe and Mail
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 The Globe and Mail's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: The Globe and Mail runs a light set with one background colour (#F4F4F4) 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, #BC444C, 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.
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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.