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Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 6 of Carets - Code Editor's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#14140C bg
#34342E
#DC846C accent
#FFFFFF text
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About this app
Carets is two great apps in one: a genuinely capable pocket code editor and a fast, beautiful notes and lists app. Built for speed, minimalism, and a monospace-clean aesthetic — reshaped for a phone. On the editor side, Carets opens and edits the real files on your device, in iCloud Drive, and in Google Drive. You get syntax highlighting across the common languages, line numbers, code-aware editing, find and replace with full regex, and a touch-reimagined command palette for jumping between files and actions. Edits save back to the file's original location, not a copy. Opening and editing external files is unlimited on the free tier. On the notes side, Carets keeps internal notes in a local SQLite store you own. Plain text or Markdown, with live preview when you want it. Lists and checklists with tap-to-toggle to-dos. Folders and tags for lightweight organization. Instant full-text se…
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What you can learn from Carets - Code Editor
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 10 screenshots above are Carets - Code Editor's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Carets - Code Editor runs a mixed light-and-dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #14140C) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #DC846C, 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.