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Photo & Video apps: screenshot design benchmarks

How Photo & Video apps design their App Store screenshots — theme, caption position, background colours, screenshot counts, caption length — measured from 1036 listings by LaunchShots.

39%
use a light theme across the set
light 39%mixed 18%dark 43%
43%
put the caption above the phone
above 43%below 20%overlay 12%no caption 25%
6.4
screenshots per listing on average · 32% use 8 or more
4.10
average App Store rating of the analysed apps
6.1
words per screenshot caption (from 103 OCR'd captions) · 10% ALL CAPS · 12% say "you"
Background colours
black 33%white 32%blue 8%dark grey 6%orange 4%

Based on 1,036 analysed listings in Photo & Video. Updated continuously as new apps are analysed. How we measure →

Analysed Photo & Video listings

YouTube
light · caption overlay · 5 shots
Instagram
dark · caption top · 8 shots
剪映 - 抖音官方AI创作神器
dark · caption bottom · 7 shots
Snapchat
light · caption top · 8 shots
快手极速版
mixed · caption none · 6 shots
轻颜 - 记录美一刻
light · caption bottom · 4 shots
Canva AI Photo & Video Editor
light · caption top · 10 shots
Twitch: Live Streaming
mixed · caption none · 6 shots
Faceu激萌-你就这么好看
light · caption top · 8 shots
快影-快手官方AI视频剪辑创作工具
dark · caption none · 5 shots
InShot - Video Editor
dark · caption bottom · 10 shots
今日水印相机-时间地点经纬度打卡拍照
light · caption none · 8 shots

How to read this

If you're designing screenshots for a Photo & Video 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'. 43% 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 6.4 screenshots — Apple allows 10, and only 32% 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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