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Screenshot style breakdown
Sampled from 5 of Derive: Handwritten Math Notes's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#4C5C4C bg
#657265
#CC8C84 accent
#FFFFFF text
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About this app
Derive Notes is a canvas-first note-taking app built for math, science, and engineering students. Write equations by hand with Apple Pencil, and let Derive understand what you wrote, so your notes do more than sit on the page. HANDWRITING THAT'S ACTUALLY UNDERSTOOD Draw on an infinite canvas the way you would on paper. Derive recognizes your handwritten math as you work, turning messy strokes into clean, structured expressions you can check, reuse, and build on. A TUTOR RIGHT NEXT TO YOUR WORK Stuck on a step? Open the tutor panel and get step-by-step help tied directly to what's on your canvas. It works alongside your handwriting instead of pulling you into a separate app. BUILT FOR REAL STUDY SESSIONS - Infinite canvas with smooth, low-latency inking - Pen, eraser, and lasso tools for fast editing - Organize your work into notebooks and pages - Two-finger tap to undo, pinch to zoom…
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What you can learn from Derive: Handwritten Math Notes
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 13 screenshots above are Derive: Handwritten Math Notes's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: Derive: Handwritten Math Notes runs a dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #4C5C4C) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #CC8C84, 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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