Sampled from 3 of Sky Time's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#241414 bg
#423434
#F4040C accent
#FFFFFF text
Sky Time is a simple app that displays Astronomy related times, including Julian Date and Universal Time. It also makes use of your device's ability to sense location to determine the Sidereal Time. Sky Time is a useful tool to have to hand when setting up your telescope! * Displays local, Julian, Local Sidereal and Universal Time. * Night-vision friendly red display. * Pop-up descriptions of the times at your fingertips.
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 6 screenshots above are Sky Time's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Sky Time runs a dark set with one background colour (#241414) 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, #F4040C, 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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Open the screenshot editor →Closest background + accent colours among the listings we've analysed — useful when you want to see the same palette handled by a different team.