App Screenshot Index · Sports
What the top 100 Sports apps put on their screenshots.
558 screenshots, read and tagged by what each one does. 92% 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 Sports screenshots by tactic.
Each tactic has its own page: the share of the top 100 Sports 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 tone95%
- Leads with a feature89%
- States a benefit84%
- Subline explains the headline47%
- Names its audience32%
- Urgent tone22%
- Playful tone16%
- Compares with something14%
- Subline adds a second benefit14%
- Leads with price13%
- Asks for an action12%
- Leads with an outcome12%
- Premium tone10%
- Leads with trust6%
- Leads with what is new6%
- Leads with who it is for6%
- Technical tone5%
- Leads with a problem1%
Words
- Has a headline95%
- Headline under five words82%
- Tells you to do something82%
- Says “you” or “your”74%
- Headline in capitals57%
- Has a subline53%
- Uses a number34%
- Headline on one line24%
- Names the app24%
- Has a kicker21%
- Headline in Title Case20%
- Headline over eight words17%
- No words at all15%
- Says “I” or “my”8%
- Uses an emoji6%
- Asks a question4%
- Names another app3%
- Uses a percentage2%
- Exclaims1%
Layout
- Screen fills the picture100%
- Phone drawn98%
- Words at the top92%
- Whole phone shown89%
- A photograph85%
- Headline readable at thumbnail size71%
- A person in the picture70%
- Illustration or mascot62%
- App icon shown51%
- Phone cut off at the foot43%
- Headline too small to read39%
- Arrows or callouts36%
- No phone, bare screen30%
- No app screen at all26%
- Words aligned left23%
- Phone cut off at the head22%
- Two or more screens21%
- Phone at an angle20%
- Words at the bottom19%
- Screen is small18%
- Zoomed detail of the UI17%
- A hand holds the phone14%
- Watch, iPad or Mac beside it12%
- Words over the screen11%
Look
- Gradient background71%
- Dark67%
- High contrast words64%
- Background is the icon’s colour56%
- A word in a different colour50%
- Blue49%
- Black, white or grey40%
- Light38%
- Photo background33%
- Solid background32%
- Condensed or display type26%
- Pattern or texture25%
- Green20%
- Low contrast words20%
- Orange17%
- Teal15%
- Red13%
- Rounded headline type9%
- Purple7%
- The app itself is the background7%
- Serif headline5%
- Yellow5%
- Pink3%
Proof
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