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Weather apps: screenshot design benchmarks

How Weather apps design their App Store screenshots — theme, caption position, background colours, screenshot counts, caption length — measured from 1789 listings by LaunchShots.

34%
use a light theme across the set
light 34%mixed 28%dark 38%
29%
put the caption above the phone
above 29%below 21%overlay 18%no caption 32%
6
screenshots per listing on average · 26% use 8 or more
3.25★
average App Store rating of the analysed apps
8.4
words per screenshot caption (from 192 OCR'd captions) · 7% ALL CAPS · 5% say "you"
Background colours
white 30%blue 30%black 16%teal 6%light grey 5%

Based on 1,789 analysed listings in Weather. Updated continuously as new apps are analysed. How we measure →

Analysed Weather listings

The Weather Channel - Radar
mixed · caption none · 8 shots
Yahoo!天気
mixed · caption none · 7 shots
WeatherBug: Weather Forecast
mixed · caption none · 9 shots
AccuWeather: Weather Forecast
dark · caption top · 8 shots
BBC Weather
dark · caption top · 10 shots
MyRadar Accurate Weather Radar
mixed · caption overlay · 6 shots
Clime: NOAA Weather Radar Live
dark · caption bottom · 9 shots
The Weather Network
light · caption top · 8 shots
RegenRadar
light · caption overlay · 9 shots
Weatherzone: Weather Forecasts
mixed · caption none · 10 shots
Weather Live° - Local Forecast
mixed · caption none · 7 shots
Яндекс Погода — Карта осадков
mixed · caption top · 7 shots

How to read this

If you're designing screenshots for a Weather 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'. 29% 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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