Sampled from 6 of DeepStateMap's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#04242C bg
#274249
#84545C accent
#FFFFFF text
DeepStateMap.Live is an interactive online map of the hostilities in Ukraine that allows you to follow the course of military operations in the Russian-Ukrainian war, the location of units and their movements. The application supports the possibility of caching downloaded data. The map has symbols: territory of Ukraine liberated from occupation in the last two weeks; liberated territory; territory that needs to be clarified; territory occupied by Russian troops; territory of the occupied Crimea and ORDLO; territory of Transnistria; unit; headquarters; airfields; fleet; directions of attacks. The territory is divided into zones, which are colored accordingly, and the locations of units and airfields are marked. The site also has a news feed and the ability to measure distances between points on the map. The site allows to enable the display of fire points based on data from the NASA F…
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 12 screenshots above are DeepStateMap's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: DeepStateMap runs a dark set with one background colour (#04242C) 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, #84545C, 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.