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Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 6 of Swell Scope — Surf Forecast's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#ECE4D4 bg
#CFC8BA
#4CDCF4 accent
#111111 text
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About this app
Raw forecasts at your own custom spots. Originally crowdfunded by surfers worldwide. Over 1 million forecasts served already! Swell Scope - the surf forecast app with no surf spots. Instead, you add your own custom surf breaks by dropping a pin anywhere in the world. Use first-of-their kind tools to setup the exposure of your spot in just a few seconds. Then jump into beautiful charts, animations, and visuals that show you the raw forecast data from the world’s premier weather models. After your session, auto-import the conditions into your journal and add your own detailed ratings for things like breaking-wave shape and surface cleanliness. Next time the conditions are similar, you’ll see your own ratings alongside the raw forecast data. Everything is designed so that you can make the call yourself, instead of relying on mysterious predictions and algorithms. My hope is to br…
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What you can learn from Swell Scope — Surf Forecast
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 11 screenshots above are Swell Scope — Surf Forecast's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Swell Scope — Surf Forecast runs a mixed light-and-dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #ECE4D4) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #4CDCF4, 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.