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Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 6 of Science News Magazine's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#04549C bg
#276BA9
#6484CC accent
#FFFFFF text
Reading the caption text from the screenshots in your browser…
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About this app
Stay up to date on the latest scientific advances with Science News Magazine. The Science News Magazine app includes the magazine and real-time news updates from all disciplines of science — from astronomy and physics to biomedicine, neuroscience, genetics, early humans, climate, ecology, animals, environment and more. MAGAZINE FEATURES: – Dark mode and adjustable font – Read full articles covering the latest discoveries in your field – Search the archive for past articles – Current and past issues of Science News Magazine – Subscribe at sciencenews.org for full access
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What you can learn from Science News Magazine
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 14 screenshots above are Science News Magazine's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Science News Magazine runs a mixed light-and-dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #04549C) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #6484CC, 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.