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Screenshot changes — detected by LaunchShots
Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 6 of Capital Weather's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#FCFCFC bg
#DDDDDD
#042C7C accent
#111111 text
Reading the caption text from the screenshots in your browser…
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About this app
Capital Weather is proud to announce a full featured weather app for iOS. Features * Current weather updated multiple times per hour * Capital Weather's detailed DC-area forecast * Opt-in notifications from the Capital Weather team * Frequently updated hourly and daily forecast data * A fully integrated GPS for current location awareness * High-resolution radar and satellite cloud imagery * Future radar to see where precipitation is headed * Severe weather alerts from the National Weather Service * Opt-in push alerts for severe weather, precipitation, lightning, and more * Ability to add and save your favorite locations * Forecast look-up by city or zip code * Capital Weather news and feature stories * Submit photos to Capital Weather
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What you can learn from Capital Weather
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 Capital Weather's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Capital Weather 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, #042C7C, 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 Weather apps approach the same problem? Browse more Weather apps in the showcase.
Take what works into your own screenshots
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 →Apps with a similar look
Closest background + accent colours among the listings we've analysed — useful when you want to see the same palette handled by a different team.