App Screenshot Index · Developer Tools
What the top 100 Developer Tools apps put on their screenshots.
507 screenshots, read and tagged by what each one does. 74% carry a headline. Pick a tactic to see who does it, or describe what you are looking for.
US App Store, top free, read on 2026-10-09. Screenshots are the developers’ own, shown from Apple’s servers with a link to each app.
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Each tactic has its own page: the share of the top 100 Developer Tools apps that use it, every example with its headline, and which of the top ten do it. The number beside each is the share of apps.
Meaning
- Plain tone73%
- Leads with a feature71%
- States a benefit58%
- Subline explains the headline36%
- Technical tone21%
- Playful tone10%
- Subline adds a second benefit10%
- Leads with trust9%
- Asks for an action8%
- Names its audience7%
- Leads with an outcome5%
- Premium tone4%
- Compares with something3%
- Urgent tone3%
- Leads with a problem2%
- Leads with what is new2%
- Leads with price1%
Words
- Has a headline76%
- Headline under five words68%
- Tells you to do something56%
- Says “you” or “your”53%
- Has a subline40%
- Headline in Title Case39%
- No words at all33%
- Headline on one line32%
- Names the app14%
- Headline over eight words12%
- Uses a number11%
- Has a kicker9%
- Exclaims7%
- Headline in capitals6%
- Names another app3%
- Says “I” or “my”3%
- Uses an emoji2%
- Asks a question1%
Layout
- Screen fills the picture99%
- Phone drawn94%
- Whole phone shown91%
- Words at the top75%
- A photograph58%
- Headline readable at thumbnail size55%
- Illustration or mascot47%
- App icon shown44%
- Headline too small to read31%
- No phone, bare screen27%
- Phone cut off at the foot26%
- Words aligned left25%
- Arrows or callouts21%
- Two or more screens17%
- A person in the picture15%
- Zoomed detail of the UI13%
- Phone cut off at the head12%
- Phone at an angle9%
- Words at the bottom9%
- Screen is small8%
- Watch, iPad or Mac beside it8%
- No app screen at all7%
- Words over the screen4%
- A hand holds the phone3%
Look
- Black, white or grey68%
- Light60%
- Solid background58%
- Dark55%
- Gradient background55%
- Blue42%
- A word in a different colour38%
- High contrast words37%
- Background is the icon’s colour31%
- Low contrast words29%
- The app itself is the background23%
- Rounded headline type15%
- Teal13%
- Orange12%
- Pattern or texture10%
- Green9%
- Photo background6%
- Yellow5%
- Condensed or display type4%
- Red3%
- Pink2%
- Purple2%
- Serif headline2%
Proof
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