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Productivity apps: screenshot design benchmarks

How Productivity apps design their App Store screenshots — theme, caption position, background colours, screenshot counts, caption length — measured from 1579 listings by LaunchShots.

51%
use a light theme across the set
light 51%mixed 21%dark 27%
38%
put the caption above the phone
above 38%below 20%overlay 14%no caption 28%
6
screenshots per listing on average · 26% use 8 or more
3.78
average App Store rating of the analysed apps
6.7
words per screenshot caption (from 193 OCR'd captions) · 6% ALL CAPS · 8% say "you"
Background colours
white 44%blue 18%black 12%teal 5%green 4%

Based on 1,579 analysed listings in Productivity. Updated continuously as new apps are analysed. How we measure →

Analysed Productivity listings

ChatGPT
light · caption none · 8 shots
Microsoft Outlook
light · caption top · 9 shots
Google Drive
light · caption bottom · 5 shots
Yahoo Mail: Your Email & Inbox
light · caption none · 9 shots
豆包 - 生活工作 AI 助手
dark · caption none · 10 shots
HP
dark · caption top · 6 shots
Google Docs
light · caption bottom · 4 shots
Microsoft Word
light · caption none · 5 shots
Госуслуги
light · caption top · 6 shots
倒数日 · Days Matter
mixed · caption bottom · 8 shots
Gmail - Email by Google
light · caption bottom · 10 shots
Google Gemini
light · caption overlay · 10 shots

How to read this

If you're designing screenshots for a Productivity app, this is the field you're competing in. A light theme is the majority choice, so going the other way is a deliberate way to stand out in search results — where your first screenshot sits next to competitors'. 38% 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 26% 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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