Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 5 of Hot Weather Forecast's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#CCCCCC bg
#B3B3B3
#0C7C04 accent
#111111 text
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About this app
With this application, Hot Weather Thermometer, you can check at any time the weather and the temperature and weather forecast for the next few days. The app works anywhere in the world. It has many useful features: - You can choose different graphical and color themes - You can check the weather: rain, cloudy, sun, temperature max / min, to the next days - The application displays the current pressure and the trend (increase or decrease) - You can check the time of sunrise and sunset - The temperature in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit - The backgrounds are adjusting to the current temperature, blue background for low temperatures, red for hot temperature etc. (you have to choose the "Thermometer" theme) The application retrieves weather data from the internet. You can specify the location (User location - select city) or in options, select the GPS / Network location - then app…
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What you can learn from Hot Weather Forecast
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 Hot Weather Forecast's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Hot Weather Forecast runs a mixed light-and-dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #CCCCCC) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #0C7C04, 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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