Sampled from 6 of RevLab - Engine Simulator's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#141414 bg
#343434
#6C3C14 accent
#FFFFFF text
Reading the caption text from the screenshots in your browser…
RevLab runs the engine for real. It computes the crank, pistons, valves, combustion and exhaust gas flow in real time, and that one simulation drives the sound, the haptics, the gauges and the 3D engine. Nothing is animated just for the screen. ■ NEW: JET AND RADIAL ENGINES An airliner high-bypass turbofan, an afterburning fighter turbofan and a nine-cylinder radial that turns a propeller. Spool-up and light-off, fan tones and buzz-saw, jet roar, the afterburner lighting up, the radial's short stacks and propeller: all from the same physics. The volumetric plume forms shock diamonds from the nozzle pressure ratio, and the afterburner flame lights the dark studio. Work a 3D thrust quadrant, a fighter throttle with an afterburner gate or the radial's throttle, prop and mixture levers, and read airliner glass displays, fighter analog gauges or a glass MFD, or vintage dials. ■ DRAG STRIP…
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 15 screenshots above are RevLab - Engine Simulator's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: RevLab - Engine Simulator 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, #6C3C14, 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 Entertainment apps approach the same problem? Browse more Entertainment 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.