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Shopping apps: screenshot design benchmarks

How Shopping apps design their App Store screenshots — theme, caption position, background colours, screenshot counts — measured from 65 listings by LaunchShots.

48%
use a light theme across the set
light 48%mixed 28%dark 25%
43%
put the caption above the phone
above 43%below 17%overlay 5%no caption 35%
6.1
screenshots per listing on average · 22% use 8 or more
4.34
average App Store rating of the analysed apps
Background colours
white 32%light grey 15%blue 12%red 11%green 8%

Based on 65 analysed listings in Shopping. Updated continuously as new apps are analysed. How we measure →

Analysed Shopping listings

Flipkart - Online Shopping App
dark · caption top · 8 shots
eBay online shopping & selling
mixed · caption none · 8 shots
Safeway Deals & Delivery
mixed · caption none · 5 shots
Gumtree: Find local ads & jobs
mixed · caption top · 5 shots
Lojas Renner - Comprar Roupas
light · caption top · 6 shots
DHgate-Online Wholesale Stores
light · caption none · 6 shots
JD Sports
dark · caption overlay · 9 shots
PC Express
mixed · caption bottom · 5 shots
ASOS - Discover Fashion Online
dark · caption none · 6 shots
Cobasi: pet shop online
mixed · caption top · 7 shots
IKEA
mixed · caption bottom · 8 shots
Waitrose & Partners
light · caption none · 10 shots

How to read this

If you're designing screenshots for a Shopping 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'. 43% 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 6.1 screenshots — Apple allows 10, and only 22% 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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