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Travel apps: screenshot design benchmarks

How Travel apps design their App Store screenshots — theme, caption position, background colours, screenshot counts, caption length — measured from 2185 listings by LaunchShots.

43%
use a light theme across the set
light 43%mixed 29%dark 27%
33%
put the caption above the phone
above 33%below 16%overlay 14%no caption 37%
6.2
screenshots per listing on average · 26% use 8 or more
3.85★
average App Store rating of the analysed apps
8.5
words per screenshot caption (from 299 OCR'd captions) · 7% ALL CAPS · 13% say "you"
Background colours
white 36%blue 23%black 7%teal 6%red 5%

Based on 2,185 analysed listings in Travel. Updated continuously as new apps are analysed. How we measure →

Analysed Travel listings

Lyft
dark · caption none · 6 shots
Uber - Rides, Eats, Hotels
dark · caption none · 8 shots
United Airlines
dark · caption none · 7 shots
Southwest Airlines: Travel App
dark · caption top · 8 shots
Fly Delta
dark · caption none · 10 shots
Expedia: Hotels, Flights, Cars
light · caption top · 8 shots
Hilton Honors: Book Hotels
dark · caption top · 8 shots
智行火车票-12306官网出票
dark · caption top · 5 shots
Vrbo: Vacation Rentals
dark · caption none · 10 shots
My Disney Experience
dark · caption overlay · 9 shots
Rapido: Bike-Taxi, Auto & Cabs
mixed · caption none · 5 shots
Marriott Bonvoy: Book Hotels
light · caption top · 9 shots

How to read this

If you're designing screenshots for a Travel 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 6.2 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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