Chart position — tracked daily by LaunchShots
Screenshot changes — detected by LaunchShots
Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 6 of The Straits Times's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#346CB4 bg
#5080BE
#0C1C4C accent
#FFFFFF text
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About this app
Stay informed, your way. Stay informed with The Straits Times—where trusted journalism meets modern convenience. Get trusted news, trending stories, and lifestyle updates from Singapore and beyond—all in one app. The Straits Times app offers smart summaries, immersive visuals, podcasts, and a tailored experience with myST+. Free to download. Subscribers get to unlock unlimited access to exclusive stories and interviews, in-depth investigations, and recreate that morning ritual with the digital replica of the print edition. You can choose to subscribe on a weekly or monthly basis: • ST weekly subscription (auto-renewed weekly at S$ 7.98) • ST monthly subscription (auto-renewed monthly at S$ 29.98) • Try our introductory offer at S$ 0.98*/month for the first 3 months • Payment will be charged to your iTunes account upon confirmation of the purchase • You will be automatically charged f…
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What you can learn from The Straits Times
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 14 screenshots above are The Straits Times's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: The Straits Times runs a mixed light-and-dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #346CB4) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #0C1C4C, 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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Closest background + accent colours among the listings we've analysed — useful when you want to see the same palette handled by a different team.