Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 4 of Solar Measurement / PyranometerApp's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#D4DCEC bg
#BAC1CF
#F44C44 accent
#111111 text
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About this app
Turn your iPhone into a ‘pyranometer’ with our Pyranometer App. It enables you to measure solar radiation in Watt per square metre (W/m²)! The Pyranometer App 2.0 is a gadget for fun and educational purposes only. Professional measurement of solar radiation is done by highly accurate thermopile pyranometers. These instruments are used for irradiance measurements in weather, climate, solar energy, agriculture and other related fields. The Pyranometer App is provided free of charge by Hukseflux Thermal Sensors, a leading manufacturer of solar radiation sensors. With the introduction of the App in iTunes, Hukseflux became the inventor of the iPhone ‘camera+diffusor’ measurement principle. The App 2.0 has improved iOS compatibility and new, cool features. With the App, our customers, users and other interested people can give a glimpse to family and friends what concerns them in profession…
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What you can learn from Solar Measurement / PyranometerApp
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 4 screenshots above are Solar Measurement / PyranometerApp's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Solar Measurement / PyranometerApp runs a mixed light-and-dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #D4DCEC) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #F44C44, 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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