Chart position — tracked daily by LaunchShots
Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 5 of Tide Charts's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#243C5C bg
#425772
#447CC4 accent
#FFFFFF text
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Icon palette
About this app
Finally a beautiful and simple way to view tides on your mobile device! In addition to worldwide tidal estimates, you can see the lunar data, weather forecast, and current radar making your next outdoor adventure as easy to plan as possible. By default, the application will pick the closest station to you, but picking a different station is as easy as viewing a map of your current location. You can also setup and quickly switch between many stored favorite stations if you need to. No internet access while outdoors? No problem. This app has been designed to give you tidal and lunar predictions without internet access! It even includes a “Today Extension” so you can get the data you need without opening the app. Now with Apple Watch support!
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What you can learn from Tide Charts
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 Tide Charts's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Tide Charts runs a mixed light-and-dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #243C5C) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #447CC4, 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.