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Music apps: screenshot design benchmarks

How Music apps design their App Store screenshots — theme, caption position, background colours, screenshot counts, caption length — measured from 1364 listings by LaunchShots.

27%
use a light theme across the set
light 27%mixed 21%dark 53%
33%
put the caption above the phone
above 33%below 19%overlay 18%no caption 30%
5.6
screenshots per listing on average · 19% use 8 or more
3.96
average App Store rating of the analysed apps
5.7
words per screenshot caption (from 139 OCR'd captions) · 14% ALL CAPS · 19% say "you"
Background colours
black 30%white 21%blue 16%red 7%dark grey 6%

Based on 1,364 analysed listings in Music. Updated continuously as new apps are analysed. How we measure →

Analysed Music listings

Spotify: Music and Podcasts
light · caption overlay · 8 shots
Pandora: Music & Podcasts
light · caption overlay · 7 shots
Shazam: Find Music & Concerts
mixed · caption overlay · 9 shots
Amazon Music: Songs & Podcasts
light · caption overlay · 8 shots
SiriusXM: Music, Sports & News
mixed · caption none · 6 shots
网易云音乐-数亿音乐畅听
light · caption top · 5 shots
QQ音乐 - 听我想听
light · caption none · 9 shots
SoundCloud: The Music You Love
mixed · caption none · 8 shots
Audiomack - Play Music Offline
dark · caption top · 5 shots
YouTube Music
dark · caption none · 5 shots
酷狗铃声-手机铃声壁纸&小组件
light · caption none · 6 shots
TuneIn Radio: Music & Sports
dark · caption top · 7 shots

How to read this

If you're designing screenshots for a Music 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'. 33% 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 5.6 screenshots — Apple allows 10, and only 19% 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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