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Photo & Video apps: screenshot design benchmarks

How Photo & Video apps design their App Store screenshots — theme, caption position, background colours, screenshot counts — measured from 98 listings by LaunchShots.

43%
use a light theme across the set
light 43%mixed 16%dark 41%
44%
put the caption above the phone
above 44%below 16%overlay 8%no caption 32%
7.1
screenshots per listing on average · 43% use 8 or more
4.24
average App Store rating of the analysed apps
Background colours
black 35%white 30%dark grey 7%light grey 6%orange 6%

Based on 98 analysed listings in Photo & Video. Updated continuously as new apps are analysed. How we measure →

Analysed Photo & Video listings

YouTube
light · caption overlay · 5 shots
Instagram
dark · caption top · 7 shots
Snapchat
light · caption top · 8 shots
Google Photos: Backup & Edit
light · caption top · 7 shots
GoPro Quik
dark · caption bottom · 9 shots
MIX滤镜大师 - 创意无限的图像编辑与海报定制
dark · caption top · 8 shots
Photoshop Express Photo Editor
dark · caption none · 10 shots
Epson Smart Panel
mixed · caption none · 3 shots
Facetune: Photo & Video Editor
light · caption none · 10 shots
Remini - AI Photo Enhancer
light · caption none · 10 shots
BeautyPlus-Selfie Photo Editor
mixed · caption none · 10 shots
VN: Photo & Video Editor
light · caption overlay · 10 shots

How to read this

If you're designing screenshots for a Photo & Video app, this is the field you're competing in. A dark theme is the majority choice here, so going the other way is a deliberate way to stand out in search results — where your first screenshot sits next to competitors'. 44% put the caption above the phone; the caption is read first either way, but above-the-phone keeps the text in the thumbnail crop the App Store shows in search. The average listing uses 7.1 screenshots — Apple allows 10, and only 43% use 8 or more, so the later slots are mostly uncontested space for feature depth. Open any listing above to see its exact colours and load them into the editor with one click.

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