Sampled from 6 of Scrubline Space Launch Tracker's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#0C0C0C bg
#2E2E2E
#2C5464 accent
#FFFFFF text
A rocket launch slips. Annoying, but no mystery: the nights behind it were reserved days ago, and this board had them the whole time. Scrubline counts the whole ladder for free, and Pro puts times on it. The trick is boat traffic. Before a launch the range reserves sea space under the flight path: the primary window plus backup nights, published to mariners days to weeks ahead. In the US that is the Coast Guard; elsewhere, whichever service covers that range. Inland ranges, like China's, do the same with airspace instead of sea. That list is the ladder. Not An Official Source — Where The Information Comes From Scrubline is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or authorised by any government agency or launch provider, and it does not represent one. It shows a reading of public government publications, and those publications are the authority. Every publication th…
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 16 screenshots above are Scrubline Space Launch Tracker's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Scrubline Space Launch Tracker runs a dark set with one background colour (#0C0C0C) 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, #2C5464, 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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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.