App Screenshot Index · Graphics & Design
What the top 99 Graphics & Design apps put on their screenshots.
564 screenshots, read and tagged by what each one does. 91% 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 99 Graphics & Design 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
- Leads with a feature94%
- Plain tone93%
- States a benefit70%
- Subline explains the headline34%
- Playful tone32%
- Premium tone20%
- Subline adds a second benefit19%
- Asks for an action13%
- Leads with an outcome9%
- Names its audience9%
- Technical tone8%
- Compares with something6%
- Urgent tone3%
- Leads with price1%
- Leads with what is new1%
- Leads with who it is for1%
Words
- Has a headline95%
- Headline under five words90%
- Tells you to do something81%
- Headline in Title Case62%
- Says “you” or “your”61%
- Has a subline51%
- Uses a number39%
- Headline on one line28%
- Headline in capitals19%
- No words at all19%
- Has a kicker12%
- Names the app11%
- Exclaims8%
- Headline over eight words8%
- Says “I” or “my”6%
- Names another app1%
- Uses an emoji1%
Layout
- Screen fills the picture99%
- Phone drawn96%
- Whole phone shown94%
- Words at the top94%
- A photograph86%
- Illustration or mascot77%
- Arrows or callouts70%
- Headline readable at thumbnail size69%
- A person in the picture65%
- Two or more screens55%
- Phone cut off at the foot47%
- Zoomed detail of the UI47%
- Headline too small to read40%
- No phone, bare screen38%
- App icon shown37%
- A hand holds the phone29%
- No app screen at all19%
- Phone at an angle17%
- Phone cut off at the head13%
- Screen is small11%
- Words aligned left11%
- Watch, iPad or Mac beside it7%
- Words at the bottom5%
- Words over the screen3%
Look
- Gradient background77%
- High contrast words65%
- Orange58%
- Black, white or grey56%
- Light56%
- Background is the icon’s colour54%
- Dark54%
- A word in a different colour53%
- Blue48%
- Solid background37%
- Rounded headline type32%
- Red31%
- Photo background28%
- Low contrast words27%
- Pink27%
- Purple24%
- Teal20%
- Pattern or texture14%
- Green13%
- Serif headline10%
- Yellow10%
- Condensed or display type8%
- The app itself is the background6%
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