Weather App Store screenshot ideas
Explore the examples below or browse the weather screenshot gallery.
First screenshot examples
Four ways to introduce an app, with design choices you can apply to your own screenshots.
The award sits beside a forecast written in the app's distinctive sarcastic voice.
Try this: Show a sample of the product's personality when tone is part of what makes the experience different.
The surfer photo and wave-height forecast connect a short preparation message with useful trip information.
Try this: Pair an activity image with the specific data users check before taking part.
The radar screen and future-time callout show both the map view and a time-related control.
Try this: For changing data, show the time context as well as the visual display so readers can interpret the example.
The opening puts an alert-delivery statistic first, with both a percentage and time stated in the copy.
Try this: If performance is your main message, state what was measured and provide a source and conditions for the figure.
Screenshot layouts
Based on 35 selected apps from the iOS Weather 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 weather apps:
Set structure
How full sets are organized:
| Feature per slide | 89% |
| Mixed structure | 6% |
| Benefit story | 6% |
Headline formulas
Share of analyzed headlines using each headline formula:
| Feature name | 41% |
| Imperative | 28% |
| Benefit statement | 19% |
| Social proof | 4% |
| Stat claim | 4% |
| Question | 2% |
| Other | 1% |
Feature name headlines from real sets
- “Global Weather Forecasts”
- “Severe Weather Alerts”
- “Hurricane Tracker & Forecast”
- “Flight Weather for Pilots”
Imperative headlines from real sets
- “Explore air quality near you and worldwide”
- “Plan your day ahead”
- “Follow major cities' pollution ranking”
- “Visualize air pollution global impact”
Benefit statement headlines from real sets
- “Track your cities and receive alerts”
- “Plan your night under the stars”
- “Advanced map overlays let you see astronomy data like never before”
- “See the real time Aurora forecast for your location”
Social proof headlines from real sets
- “Featured in App Store”
- “Used by professionals at:”
- “Loved by thousands of users like you”
- “Rave reviews.”
Stat claim headlines from real sets
- “Switch between 80+ Weather Maps”
- “Hourly Charts for up to 14 Days”
- “Compare 20+ Models for the Best Forecast”
- “99% of alerts delivered in under 10 seconds”
Device, background, and text balance
Device presentation
| Framed device | 78% |
| Angled device | 11% |
| Clipped device | 6% |
| No device | 3% |
| Frameless device | 3% |
Background types
| Flat color | 39% |
| Scene or photo | 30% |
| Gradient | 24% |
| Pattern | 7% |
| Blurred UI | 1% |
Text to UI ratio
| Balanced | 57% |
| UI dominant | 38% |
| Text dominant | 5% |
Palettes from the sample
Dominant colors recorded in selected weather sets:
Typography
Typography observed in the sampled weather sets:
- chunky rounded heavy sans-serif headlines, white on saturated blue, playful personality-driven microcopy throughout the UI itself
- bold rounded sans-serif, white on saturated blue, large tight headlines, sentence case
- elegant serif display headlines paired with clean sans-serif subheads, white text on a deep starfield-black background, every slide topped by a matching cyan eyebrow label and underline rule
- chunky rounded bold sans, two-line headlines, white on black with a subtle topographic-contour texture
- bold two-tone sans-serif headlines (white first line, bright blue second line) over a dark navy radial-gradient background, with a lighter gray subheadline sentence beneath each
- elegant serif display headlines with a gold accent on the key phrase, paired with a technical monospace-style font for in-app data readouts, all set on real night-sky photography
Keep exploring
- Weather screenshot examples: the full sets behind these numbers.
- All categories: compare weather with the other categories.
- Screenshot sizes: the dimensions your set needs to ship.
Create your weather 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.
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