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Shopping apps: screenshot design benchmarks

How Shopping apps design their App Store screenshots — theme, caption position, background colours, screenshot counts, caption length — measured from 2721 listings by LaunchShots.

49%
use a light theme across the set
light 49%mixed 29%dark 22%
41%
put the caption above the phone
above 41%below 16%overlay 10%no caption 33%
6.1
screenshots per listing on average · 23% use 8 or more
4.11★
average App Store rating of the analysed apps
8.6
words per screenshot caption (from 316 OCR'd captions) · 10% ALL CAPS · 16% say "you"
Background colours
white 37%blue 14%red 9%black 8%light grey 7%

Based on 2,721 analysed listings in Shopping. Updated continuously as new apps are analysed. How we measure →

Analysed Shopping listings

Walmart: Shopping & Savings
mixed · caption none · 10 shots
Amazon Shopping
dark · caption top · 7 shots
Fetch: Receipts for Gift Cards
dark · caption none · 7 shots
Etsy: Shop from Real People
mixed · caption none · 8 shots
Walgreens
light · caption top · 8 shots
Flipkart - Online Shopping App
dark · caption top · 8 shots
Target: Shop. Style. Save.
mixed · caption top · 9 shots
WILDBERRIES
mixed · caption top · 8 shots
Mercado Livre: Fazer Compritta
light · caption top · 8 shots
フリマアプリはメルカリ - メルペイのスマホ決済でもっとお得
mixed · caption overlay · 8 shots
Sam's Club Shopping & Delivery
light · caption top · 9 shots
楽天市場 - お買い物で楽天ポイントが貯まる便利な通販アプリ
dark · caption none · 6 shots

How to read this

If you're designing screenshots for a Shopping 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'. 41% 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 6.1 screenshots — Apple allows 10, and only 23% 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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