Sampled from 6 of PWS Monitor's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#FCFCFC bg
#DDDDDD
#04045C accent
#111111 text
Captions read from the screenshots (OCR, may contain small errors): 4 headlines, 9 words on average (longest 12).
View weather conditions in your neighborhood, or even right in your own backyard! Weather readings and charts are displayed for stations in the Weather Underground personal weather station network, which encompasses over a quarter million weather stations around the world. Premium subscribers get access to an assortment of Home and Lock Screen widgets. Also the companion Watch app including Complications. Quickly find stations near your current location, or search locations around the world and store them in your Favorites for easy viewing. Current and high/low weather data for temperature, dewpoint, barometric pressure, humidity, wind, rain, solar radiation, and UV Index are visible for multiple stations. Chart's for the current day or last 7 days are available. Data displayed: * Temperature: Current, High/Low * Wind Chill * Heat Index ("Feels Like" temperature) * Dewpoint: Curr…
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 PWS Monitor's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: PWS Monitor runs a light set with one background colour (#FCFCFC) 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, #04045C, 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.
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.