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Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 6 of Newsmast. Powered by Mastodon's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#B44434 bg
#BE5E50
#D4847C accent
#FFFFFF text
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About this app
Newsmast is a social app for activists. People who love to share what they know and learn from others who know their stuff. We’ve built Newsmast around topics that matter across the Open Social Web. We’re diverse, democratic and dedicated to building safe, committed communities that change the world. You can make an account or sign in with an existing Mastodon account to access Newsmast and enter our map of Social Web communities. If you use Newsmast with your existing Mastodon account, you’ll see seamlessly integrated content from your home server alongside Newsmast’s hand-curated, knowledge-sharing Channels, or from Channels built by the community! We don’t do scraping or content aggregation - all the Channel content comes from Newsmast users or via federation, and is moderated by applying various blocklist, filters that keep out NSFW, crypto and hate-speech. As well as the muscl…
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What you can learn from Newsmast. Powered by Mastodon
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 17 screenshots above are Newsmast. Powered by Mastodon's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Newsmast. Powered by Mastodon runs a dark set with one background colour (#B44434) 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, #D4847C, 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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Closest background + accent colours among the listings we've analysed — useful when you want to see the same palette handled by a different team.