Chart position — tracked daily by LaunchShots
Screenshot changes — detected by LaunchShots
Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 4 of SmartNews: Breaking News's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#FCFCFC bg
#DDDDDD
#8CCCEC accent
#111111 text
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About this app
We combine the best of quality journalism with expert curation to help you stay informed—and feel good while doing it. Discover top news from premium publishers in one app: Bloomberg, The Atlantic, USA Today, TIME, The Huffington Post, Bleacher Report, Quartz, The Verge, LAT, VOX, AP, Reuters, Buzzfeed, and Fast Company. Read news in English, Spanish, Chinese and more! Translate any article in your feed to your native language for easier reading. SmartNews rewards you for staying up to date. Earn points every day by reading articles and exchange them for gift cards from your favorite brands or donations to charities you support. Key Features Translation: Translate articles into Spanish, Chinese, and more with one tap to read in your native language. Rewards: Earn points for reading articles and completing daily missions, redeemable for retail gift cards or charity donations. Local…
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What you can learn from SmartNews: Breaking News
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 8 screenshots above are SmartNews: Breaking News's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: SmartNews: Breaking News runs a light set with one background colour (#FCFCFC) 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, #8CCCEC, 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 →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.