Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 5 of MetService Marine's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#141C2C bg
#343B49
#3C6CB4 accent
#FFFFFF text
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About this app
MetService New Zealand marine forecasts are now available in a handy smartphone app. The app is free of charge. Features include: - Recreational and Coastal marine forecasts - Severe weather information - Tides - 7.5 minute Rain Radar - 3 day rainfall forecast imagery with wind barbs - Surface pressure maps - User selected default location which is saved as the Home screen - Ability to change out background image with your favourite fishing spot The app does not include surf and beach forecasts or marine maps that are not included in the list above. The app is developed for smartphones and is not supported for tablets. Full terms and conditions regarding the purchase and use of MetService mobile applications are available here: www.metservice.com/about/application-terms. Requires iOS 7 or later.
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What you can learn from MetService Marine
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 5 screenshots above are MetService Marine's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: MetService Marine runs a dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #141C2C) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #3C6CB4, 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.
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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.