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Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 6 of Laoshi: Chinese & HSK 3.0's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#FCE46C bg
#DDC85F
#8C8454 accent
#111111 text
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About this app
Laoshi is a complete app for learning Mandarin Chinese: smart flashcards built for characters, tones and grammar, with real handwriting practice, pronunciation scored for sound and tone separately, and ready-made decks for every major Chinese textbook. Join 300,000+ learners who use Laoshi to build vocabulary, master grammar, prepare for the HSK exam and make progress every day. Laoshi is a Red Dot Design Award 2021 winner and a HICOOL 2025 winner. Chinese works differently. Understanding a character isn't enough — you have to memorise it and write it by hand, and it fades fast. That's why spaced repetition sits at the core of Laoshi: it brings a word back exactly when it starts slipping, and locks it in through writing. Tones need pronunciation training, grammar needs clear explanations. Laoshi brings all of it together in one focused app. Why learners choose Laoshi: • Real handwr…
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What you can learn from Laoshi: Chinese & HSK 3.0
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 12 screenshots above are Laoshi: Chinese & HSK 3.0's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Laoshi: Chinese & HSK 3.0 runs a light set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #FCE46C) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #8C8454, 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.
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