Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 2 of Smart Sampa Cidadão's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#FCFCFC bg
#DDDDDD
#449CC4 accent
#111111 text
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About this app
Aplicativo para contribuição de leituras de placas com o sistema de monitoramento Smart Sampa, gerenciado pela GCM (Guarda Civil Metropolitana) de São Paulo - SP. Ao se cadastrar no aplicativo, o usuário terá acesso ao modo leitura que, utilizando a câmera do celular, identifica as placas veiculares na imagem e envia diretamente os servidores do Smart Sampa. Um alerta indicando que a placa foi lida aparecerá na tela após cada leitura. Uma mesma placa só será lida denovo após alguns instantes, evitando duplicidade. Além do modo leitura, na página inicial do aplicativo o usuário pode acompanhar seu histórico de leituras e um resumo dos ultimos 30 dias. Ao contribuir com uma placa o usuário está sendo um parceiro da segurança pública!
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What you can learn from Smart Sampa Cidadão
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 5 screenshots above are Smart Sampa Cidadão's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Smart Sampa Cidadão runs a mixed light-and-dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #FCFCFC) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #449CC4, 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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