Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 5 of True Mirror!'s App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#142434 bg
#344250
#8C7454 accent
#FFFFFF text
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About this app
Want to see what you really look like? A regular mirror flips your image, so you're not really seeing what everyone else does. With Truth Mirror, a true mirror, the image you see, is what the rest of the world sees when they look at you! If you use the built in IOS camera app it shows a mirror image while previewing and then flips it to true when you take your pic, so you can't really see what your picture will look like. Now with Truth Mirror! You can preview your TRUE image and pose for self portraits and take a picture of the actual preview. Then you can add captions, goodies, and frames to your pic and share it via Facebook, Twitter, e-mail, etc…. After over a MILLION downloads we have done a full rebuild with some new features! - Now you can choose to not save pictures you take to your camera roll so they are only in the app and then you can save and share the good ones :…
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What you can learn from True Mirror!
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 7 screenshots above are True Mirror!'s answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: True Mirror! runs a mixed light-and-dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #142434) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #8C7454, 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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