Chart position — tracked daily by LaunchShots
Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 5 of Smart Tide: Tide Chart & Times's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#FCFCFC bg
#DDDDDD
#243C54 accent
#111111 text
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About this app
Know what the water is doing before you get there. Smart Tide reads tide predictions straight from the agencies that publish them — KHOA in Korea, NOAA in the United States, and the Canadian Hydrographic Service — and puts them on your phone, lock screen, watch and home screen. No account. No sign-up. No analytics, no ad networks, no third-party SDKs of any kind. A CHART YOU CAN READ AT A GLANCE The day's curve fills the screen, with high and low marked where they actually fall. The background follows the time of day, so dawn looks like dawn and night is easy on your eyes at 4am. Press and hold anywhere on the curve to read the exact height at that moment. FIND YOUR STATION ON A MAP Start from the map, not a list. Pan to your stretch of coast and the stations are there — thousands of them across Korea, the United States and Canada. Search by name, or let the app find the closest one…
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What you can learn from Smart Tide: Tide Chart & 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 10 screenshots above are Smart Tide: Tide Chart & Times's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Smart Tide: Tide Chart & Times runs a mixed light-and-dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #FCFCFC) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #243C54, 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 Weather apps approach the same problem? Browse more Weather apps in the showcase.
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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.