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Lifestyle apps: screenshot design benchmarks

How Lifestyle apps design their App Store screenshots — theme, caption position, background colours, screenshot counts, caption length — measured from 2673 listings by LaunchShots.

49%
use a light theme across the set
light 49%mixed 25%dark 26%
40%
put the caption above the phone
above 40%below 18%overlay 10%no caption 32%
6
screenshots per listing on average · 21% use 8 or more
3.69
average App Store rating of the analysed apps
7.8
words per screenshot caption (from 294 OCR'd captions) · 5% ALL CAPS · 11% say "you"
Background colours
white 40%blue 15%black 12%red 6%orange 5%

Based on 2,673 analysed listings in Lifestyle. Updated continuously as new apps are analysed. How we measure →

Analysed Lifestyle listings

Zillow Real Estate & Rentals
mixed · caption none · 6 shots
Amazon Alexa
dark · caption none · 8 shots
Pinterest
light · caption bottom · 6 shots
交管12123
dark · caption none · 5 shots
汽车之家-5亿人都在用的汽车App
light · caption none · 7 shots
Nest
mixed · caption overlay · 5 shots
Ring - Always Home
light · caption bottom · 5 shots
Bumble Dating App: Meet & Date
mixed · caption none · 7 shots
小米音箱
light · caption top · 4 shots
Tinder Dating App: Date & Chat
mixed · caption top · 10 shots
Redfin: Buy, Sell & Rent Homes
mixed · caption top · 7 shots
家族アルバム みてね
light · caption top · 6 shots

How to read this

If you're designing screenshots for a Lifestyle app, this is the field you're competing in. A dark theme is the majority choice here, so going the other way is a deliberate way to stand out in search results — where your first screenshot sits next to competitors'. 40% put the caption above the phone; the caption is read first either way, but above-the-phone keeps the text in the thumbnail crop the App Store shows in search. The average listing uses 6 screenshots — Apple allows 10, and only 21% use 8 or more, so the later slots are mostly uncontested space for feature depth. Open any listing above to see its exact colours and load them into the editor with one click.

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