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Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 6 of Surfcast – Waves, Wind & Tides's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#041424 bg
#273442
#84242C accent
#FFFFFF text
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About this app
Surfcast puts professional-grade marine forecasts in your pocket. Whether you surf every day or plan trips around the swell, Surfcast gives you the data to make the call. 16-Day Hourly Marine Forecast See wave height, period, and direction for every 3-hour slot across two weeks. Forecasts update automatically in the background so you're never looking at stale data. Four Professional Forecast Models Choose from GFS, ECMWF, MeteoFrance (MFWAM), or DWD GWAM — the same models used by professional surf forecasters. Switch between them instantly to compare predictions and find the one you trust most for your local break. Complete Swell Breakdown Go beyond total wave height. Surfcast separates wind swell from primary, secondary, and tertiary groundswell so you know exactly what's in the water — and which direction it's coming from. Tide Chart with Highs & Lows A live tide curve shows you t…
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What you can learn from Surfcast – Waves, Wind & Tides
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 Surfcast – Waves, Wind & Tides's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Surfcast – Waves, Wind & Tides runs a dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #041424) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #84242C, 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.