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Social Networking apps: screenshot design benchmarks

How Social Networking apps design their App Store screenshots — theme, caption position, background colours, screenshot counts, caption length — measured from 1907 listings by LaunchShots.

40%
use a light theme across the set
light 40%mixed 27%dark 33%
37%
put the caption above the phone
above 37%below 15%overlay 10%no caption 38%
5.8
screenshots per listing on average · 19% use 8 or more
3.78★
average App Store rating of the analysed apps
7.9
words per screenshot caption (from 204 OCR'd captions) · 9% ALL CAPS · 9% say "you"
Background colours
white 30%black 18%blue 15%red 6%teal 6%

Based on 1,907 analysed listings in Social Networking. Updated continuously as new apps are analysed. How we measure →

Analysed Social Networking listings

Facebook
dark · caption none · 10 shots
WhatsApp Messenger
light · caption top · 5 shots
Messenger
dark · caption none · 8 shots
Discord - Talk, Play, Hang Out
dark · caption none · 6 shots
MOMO陌陌
mixed · caption overlay · 4 shots
Soul-年轻人的社交元宇宙
light · caption none · 7 shots
Life360: Family Safety & GPS
dark · caption top · 8 shots
Google Meet
light · caption top · 6 shots
Marco Polo - Video Messenger
mixed · caption top · 7 shots
Plenty of Fish : Dating App
light · caption top · 8 shots
知乎
dark · caption top · 4 shots
豆瓣
light · caption top · 6 shots

How to read this

If you're designing screenshots for a Social Networking 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'. 37% 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 5.8 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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