Books App Store screenshot ideas
Explore the examples below or browse the books screenshot gallery.
First screenshot examples
Four ways to introduce an app, with design choices you can apply to your own screenshots.
The catalogue count sits above a wall of covers, pairing scale with concrete examples of what listeners can find.
Try this: If range is your main benefit, show a varied selection alongside a current, verified count.
The romance covers give a specific visual theme to the emotional headline about stories worth obsessing over.
Try this: Pair an emotional promise with content that shows the kind of experience you offer.
Reader illustrations introduce a familiar activity while the headline names the book-tracking task.
Try this: Use illustration to introduce the reader's situation, then state the app's practical role in plain words.
Spider-Man artwork connects the comic library with a character readers may already know from other media.
Try this: Introduce unfamiliar content through a recognisable example, with enough copy to explain the connection.
Screenshot layouts
Based on 39 selected apps from the iOS Books charts. These figures describe design patterns, not conversion results.
The first screenshot
The first screenshot introduces the set. These are the layouts used on screenshot one in the sampled books apps:
| Text top, device bottom | 49% |
| Lifestyle photo composite | 21% |
| Other | 13% |
Set structure
How full sets are organized:
| Feature per slide | 59% |
| Mixed structure | 31% |
| Benefit story | 8% |
| Panoramic set | 3% |
Headline formulas
Share of analyzed headlines using each headline formula:
| Imperative | 34% |
| Benefit statement | 33% |
| Feature name | 21% |
| Other | 6% |
| Stat claim | 4% |
| Social proof | 2% |
Imperative headlines from real sets
- “Find and subscribe to your favorites.”
- “READ YOUR ADVENTURES”
- “KILL TIME WITH HUNDREDS OF GENRES”
- “Dive into NEW STORIES DAILY”
Benefit statement headlines from real sets
- “Lists of titles curated by your local librarians.”
- “Search and browse ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines.”
- “With powerful filters, you can always find something to read.”
- “Loans from all your libraries on one shelf.”
Feature name headlines from real sets
- “Chat with W YOUR AI BOOK-BOT”
- “Hot & Popular Book Lists”
- “Personalized Bookshelf”
- “Diverse reading modes”
Other headlines from real sets
- “Libby. The library app.”
- “Seven Years A Fool ONE DAY A Queen”
- “Flash Marriage TO MY BEST FRIEND'S Father”
- “How it works:”
Stat claim headlines from real sets
- “1,000,000+ NOVELS & COMICS”
- “1,000,000+Novels All in one place”
- “1M+ NOVELS Just for you”
- “Explore 5,000+ Worlds”
Device, background, and text balance
Device presentation
| Framed device | 57% |
| Clipped device | 16% |
| Angled device | 10% |
| No device | 9% |
| Frameless device | 8% |
Background types
| Flat color | 37% |
| Gradient | 26% |
| Scene or photo | 23% |
| Pattern | 14% |
| Blurred UI | 0% |
Text to UI ratio
| UI dominant | 47% |
| Balanced | 46% |
| Text dominant | 7% |
Palettes from the sample
Dominant colors recorded in selected books sets:
Typography
Typography observed in the sampled books sets:
- bold italic slab/sans display headlines, white on deep navy gradient, tight leading, punchy two-to-three-word openers
- bold condensed all-caps impact sans-serif headlines in white with a cyan italic accent line per slide, over cinematic dark illustrated backgrounds
- elegant high-contrast serif in white with one mint italic script line per headline, centered, three-line stacks with romantic-novel styling
- heavy condensed uppercase sans headline in white, thin rule underneath, lighter sentence-case subhead; loud shonen-magazine energy on a red comic-lineart backdrop
- elegant Didone-style serif headlines in white over a different flat-gradient backdrop per slide, paired with clean sans UI chrome; editorial, bookish tone
- bold rounded sans display headlines, white on saturated pink-magenta gradients, mixed regular/bold two-line stacks
Keep exploring
- Books screenshot examples: the full sets behind these numbers.
- All categories: compare books with the other categories.
- Screenshot sizes: the dimensions your set needs to ship.
Create your books screenshot set
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