Sampled from 4 of Met Éireann Weather Ireland's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#04345C bg
#275072
#5C9464 accent
#FFFFFF text
Key Features: Check for any active weather warnings for the Marine (Small Craft and Gale Warnings), National (Rain, Wind, Temperature, Snow, Ice and Fog) and Environmental (Pollen, UV and Potato Blight). Interactive animated maps of rainfall radar, rainfall , temperature , wind and pressure forecasts for up to 7 days. The high resolution rainfall radar updates every 5 minutes. The rainfall, temperature, wind and pressure forecasts are derived from high resolution Numerical Weather Prediction models. An Outlook to provide the user with a brief overview of the expected weather for any location in the country for the next 7 days. Geolocated forecast. The app utilises the GPS functionality of your mobile device to provide a 7 day detailed forecast for your exact location. The user can scroll the detailed forecast and examine the forecast for expected warnings, weather, temperature, w…
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 Met Éireann Weather Ireland's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Met Éireann Weather Ireland runs a mixed light-and-dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #04345C) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #5C9464, 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 Weather apps approach the same problem? Browse more Weather apps in the showcase.
Open LaunchShots and design your App Store & Google Play screenshots — pick a device frame, drop captions, ship in minutes. Free, in your browser.
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.