Sampled from 5 of ChapterStory's App Store screenshots — background, accent and theme, measured by LaunchShots (not something Apple publishes).
#EC5C3C bg
#EE7257
#D40414 accent
#FFFFFF text
ChapterStory turns the act of reading aloud into a magical shared experience, helping you track stories, character voices, and your family's journey through the chapters of beloved books. It captures the cozy intimacy of storytime, preserving the memory of each tale and the rhythm of your voice weaving narratives. This app celebrates the timeless tradition of sharing stories as a bonding ritual. Organize books by genre or reader, set gentle reminders for nightly reading, and log progress through chapters with simple notes. The interface, crafted in the soft colors of a well-loved storybook—cream, burnt orange, and forest green—features a calm design with a gentle, narrative layout and slow, page-turn transitions.
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 5 screenshots above are ChapterStory's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
What the numbers say: ChapterStory runs a mixed light-and-dark set where the background shifts from screenshot to screenshot (first shot #EC5C3C) — each image has to stand on its own, so the captions carry more of the story. The accent colour we picked up, #D40414, 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 Book apps approach the same problem? Browse more Book apps in the showcase.
Open LaunchShots and design your App Store & Google Play screenshots — pick a device frame, drop captions, ship in minutes. Free, in your browser.
Open the screenshot editor →Closest background + accent colours among the listings we've analysed — useful when you want to see the same palette handled by a different team.