News App Store screenshot ideas
Explore the examples below or browse the news screenshot gallery.
First screenshot examples
Four ways to introduce an app, with design choices you can apply to your own screenshots.
Video, briefing, and podcast examples give concrete forms to the promise of news context in a short visit.
Try this: If your product offers several ways to consume the same content, show those choices together.
The story card displays coverage, bias, factuality, and ownership as distinct pieces of information.
Try this: When your value is comparison, show the fields people can compare on one concrete example.
An article headline and illustration serve as the opening, giving the publication's content the main role.
Try this: For an editorial product, a representative piece of content can introduce the experience without extra promotional copy.
The phone-shaped illustration brings reading, listening, and puzzles into a single visual introduction.
Try this: Use a unified illustration to introduce several content formats while keeping the overall composition simple.
Screenshot layouts
Based on 36 selected apps from the iOS News 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 news apps:
| Text top, device bottom | 81% |
| Other | 8% |
| Multi-device collage | 6% |
Set structure
How full sets are organized:
| Feature per slide | 78% |
| Mixed structure | 14% |
| Benefit story | 8% |
Headline formulas
Share of analyzed headlines using each headline formula:
| Benefit statement | 44% |
| Imperative | 29% |
| Feature name | 22% |
| Social proof | 2% |
| Stat claim | 2% |
| Question | 1% |
| Other | 1% |
Benefit statement headlines from real sets
- “See what's active or no longer a threat”
- “Monitor locations that matter to you”
- “Make your show the next big thing”
- “Never miss a moment with show notifications”
Imperative headlines from real sets
- “Get lifesaving, real-time alerts”
- “Know what's really happening”
- “Hear police & fire radios”
- “Get nationwide breaking news first”
Feature name headlines from real sets
- “Local News, Alerts, Headlines & More.”
- “Preview your next listens with our AI hosts”
- “Search for specific episodes within a show”
- “Creates and share your own playlists”
Social proof headlines from real sets
- “The #1 most downloaded podcast player app”
- “Join other big thinkers.”
- “Stories Told By Your Favorite Stars”
- “Loved By Readers”
Stat claim headlines from real sets
- “7500+ Streams Real-time updated”
- “4,500+ Premium Sources”
- “Join over 100 million neighbors”
- “Real crimes Shocking stories”
Device, background, and text balance
Device presentation
| Framed device | 59% |
| Frameless device | 20% |
| Clipped device | 11% |
| Angled device | 6% |
| No device | 4% |
Background types
| Flat color | 54% |
| Gradient | 22% |
| Scene or photo | 12% |
| Pattern | 10% |
| Blurred UI | 2% |
Text to UI ratio
| Balanced | 55% |
| UI dominant | 43% |
| Text dominant | 1% |
Palettes from the sample
Dominant colors recorded in selected news sets:
Typography
Typography observed in the sampled news sets:
- refined serif headlines, white on the brand's signature red, restrained and editorial
- heavy condensed bold sans headlines in near-black, off-white/beige paper-like background, editorial and confident
- bold black geometric sans headlines, left-aligned, on soft lavender-to-purple gradients
- elegant serif display logotype paired with a bold humanist sans for emphasis words, black text on a soft blush background, literary and editorial in tone
- serif headline over sans subhead, black text on a warm peach-to-coral gradient, editorial and restrained
- elegant serif display headline in Substack's editorial serif, black text on a light warm-gray background, minimal restrained styling
Keep exploring
- News screenshot examples: the full sets behind these numbers.
- All categories: compare news with the other categories.
- Screenshot sizes: the dimensions your set needs to ship.
Create your news screenshot set
Use these examples to plan your set. Screenies adds layouts and headlines to your raw app screenshots, ready for you to edit and export.
Create news screenshots