Sampled from 4 of CosmicNav's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#F4F4F4 bg
#D6D6D6
#1C4454 accent
#111111 text
Your Apple Watch finally shows a real map. Not turn cards. Not a list of street names. The actual map — roads, buildings, your route — drawn on your wrist and moving as you ride. WHY THIS EXISTS There is no maps SDK for watchOS, so no app draws a real map there. Even the big ones show you an arrow and a street name. We wrote our own renderer: the watch pulls map tiles itself and draws them. What you see on your wrist is a genuine map, not a photo of your phone screen. WORKS WITH THE PHONE IN YOUR POCKET Screen off, phone away, engine running. The watch keeps drawing and the voice keeps talking. Nothing goes quiet when the display sleeps. THE CROWN IS A REAL ZOOM Turn it and the map loads finer tiles — lanes and alleys appear that were not there a second ago. It is not a magnifying glass over a blurry picture. SEARCH BY VOICE FROM YOUR WRIST Say where you are going. The route is bui…
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 4 screenshots above are CosmicNav's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: CosmicNav runs a light set with one background colour (#F4F4F4) 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, #1C4454, 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.
Want to see how other Navigation apps approach the same problem? Browse more Navigation apps in the showcase.
Open LaunchShots and design your App Store & Google Play screenshots — pick a device frame, drop captions, ship in minutes. Free, in your browser.
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.