Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 6 of Solar Eclipse Live's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#040404 bg
#272727
#FCD40C accent
#FFFFFF text
- #17 © Solar Eclipses Time period 2024 - 2040
- #2March 30,2033 LIVE VIEW OF THE ECLIPSE Time to start of partial eclipse:
- #3< Back February 6,2027 &, </ @ TOTALITY e Totality does not occur at any location for
- #47 © Solar Eclipses Time period 2024-2040
- #5March 30,2033 Preview Live Time to start of partial eclipse:
- #6Carrier 3:02PM - TOTALITY e Totality does not occur at any location for
Captions read from the screenshots (OCR, may contain small errors): 6 headlines, 11.5 words on average (longest 17).
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About this app
This app lets you explore all solar eclipse until the year 2200 for any location on Earth. You can preview each eclipse from your current location (or select a location manually). The app uses the most accurate research-grade NASA ephemeris data (DE440) to calculate the most accurate eclipse timings possible. The predictions have an error of less than one second. A new home screen widget shows you a countdown to the next solar eclipse based on your current location.
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What you can learn from Solar Eclipse Live
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 Solar Eclipse Live's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Solar Eclipse Live runs a mixed light-and-dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #040404) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #FCD40C, 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 Education apps approach the same problem? Browse more Education apps in the showcase.
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