Sampled from 5 of Guitar Tuner Easy tune chords's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#341C5C bg
#503B72
#6444AC accent
#FFFFFF text
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CoachTuner is a FREE chromatic instrument tuner that allows you to quickly tune your guitar, bass and ukulele using the built-in mic of your iPhone/iPad/iPod. CoachTuner can tune acoustic or electric guitar, bass, ukulele. It's easy to use for beginners and it's Free. *** How to use CoachTuner ? *** The open strings of a guitar from the thickest to thinest are as follows: E – the thickest or lowest sounding string is known as the 6th string A – is the 5th D – is the 4th G – is the 3rd B – is the 2nd E – the thinest or highest is the 1st 1) First, play your low E string (6th string), the arrow must be in the middle and the text "E" and "OK" must be displayed 2) Play your low A string (5th string), the arrow must be in the middle and the text "A" and "OK" must be displayed 3) Play your low D string (4th string), the arrow must be in the middle and the text "D" and "OK" must be displaye…
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 10 screenshots above are Guitar Tuner Easy tune chords's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Guitar Tuner Easy tune chords runs a dark set with one background colour (#341C5C) 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, #6444AC, 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 Music apps approach the same problem? Browse more Music 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.