App Screenshot Index · Music
What the top 100 Music apps put on their screenshots.
550 screenshots, read and tagged by what each one does. 90% 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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Browse Music screenshots by tactic.
Each tactic has its own page: the share of the top 100 Music 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 tone92%
- Leads with a feature89%
- States a benefit75%
- Subline explains the headline29%
- Subline adds a second benefit23%
- Playful tone20%
- Premium tone18%
- Asks for an action16%
- Names its audience13%
- Leads with an outcome12%
- Urgent tone9%
- Compares with something8%
- Leads with trust7%
- Technical tone7%
- Leads with who it is for4%
- Leads with what is new3%
- Leads with price2%
Words
- Has a headline94%
- Tells you to do something83%
- Headline under five words81%
- Says “you” or “your”67%
- Has a subline47%
- Headline in Title Case39%
- Headline in capitals30%
- Headline on one line29%
- Uses a number28%
- No words at all23%
- Names the app22%
- Headline over eight words13%
- Says “I” or “my”13%
- Has a kicker10%
- Exclaims7%
- Uses a percentage2%
- Names another app1%
- Uses an emoji1%
Layout
- Screen fills the picture98%
- Phone drawn95%
- Words at the top93%
- Whole phone shown87%
- A photograph86%
- Headline readable at thumbnail size72%
- Illustration or mascot71%
- A person in the picture59%
- Phone cut off at the foot44%
- Headline too small to read42%
- Arrows or callouts38%
- App icon shown37%
- Words aligned left31%
- No phone, bare screen27%
- Phone at an angle26%
- Two or more screens26%
- Phone cut off at the head25%
- A hand holds the phone23%
- Zoomed detail of the UI22%
- Watch, iPad or Mac beside it21%
- Screen is small17%
- Words at the bottom17%
- No app screen at all16%
- Words over the screen6%
- Continues into the next screenshot1%
Look
- Gradient background73%
- Dark71%
- Background is the icon’s colour62%
- High contrast words57%
- A word in a different colour47%
- Black, white or grey46%
- Solid background38%
- Blue37%
- Low contrast words36%
- Light35%
- Orange29%
- Photo background26%
- Teal21%
- Red19%
- Rounded headline type19%
- Purple17%
- Pattern or texture15%
- Pink13%
- Condensed or display type10%
- Green10%
- Yellow7%
- The app itself is the background6%
- Serif headline5%
Proof
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