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Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 3 of The Herald SA's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#FCFCFC bg
#DDDDDD
#044CA4 accent
#111111 text
- #1More Stories NEWS 1 Man demands drugs and money § q.
- #2Most Read 1 Man demands drugs and money back after raid
- #3Settings pone Account Review this app
Captions read from the screenshots (OCR, may contain small errors): 3 headlines, 9.3 words on average (longest 11).
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About this app
myHerald brought to you by The Herald is the voice of Nelson Mandela Bay. From its humble beginnings as a black-and-white four-pager more than 170 years ago to the leading print and digital publication in the Bay today, one thing has remained unchanged - The Herald is the voice of Nelson Mandela Bay, bringing audiences together under a shared common interest, and to build a closer relationship.
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What you can learn from The Herald SA
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 6 screenshots above are The Herald SA's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: The Herald SA runs a light set with one background colour (#FCFCFC) carried across every screenshot — the listing reads as a single poster when the shots sit side by side in search results. The accent colour we picked up, #044CA4, 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 News apps approach the same problem? Browse more News apps in the showcase.
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