Sampled from 3 of Sych: Ukraine Air Raid Alert's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#141414 bg
#343434
#BC342C accent
#FFFFFF text
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Sych is a live map of air-raid alerts in Ukraine, and a siren loud enough to wake you. WHAT THE MAP SHOWS Every region under alert, coloured by raion rather than by oblast — the state declares the level per raion, and inside one oblast they differ. The colour is the state's own: yellow for a drone threat, red for a missile one. The hatching says what is actually in the air over that place — drones, cruise missiles, ballistic weapons, guided bombs, and the aircraft that carry them. ALERTS An alert reaches the phone within seconds of being declared. The siren plays at alarm volume even when the phone is on silent, and that is deliberate: a quiet notification at 03:40 is one you sleep through. The all-clear arrives the same way, immediately. FREE The official alert and the all-clear for the region you choose, the map, and the feed of what is happening. No ads, on any tier, ever. PRO 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 4 screenshots above are Sych: Ukraine Air Raid Alert's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Sych: Ukraine Air Raid Alert runs a dark set with one background colour (#141414) 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, #BC342C, 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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