We analyzed dedicated cold-start screens—the deliberate first-run or empty screen shown to a brand-new user—across 23,407 canonical screens from 809 mobile apps. The category contains 58 canonical screens across 107 apps, mapped from 374 raw screenshots, making it the smallest activation family; a separate tag match covers 109 apps and 130 screenshots. Named examples include calm, headspace, spotify, nyt, peloton, blinkist, betterme, fitbod, disney, hulu, doordash, uber-eats, and reddit. Education has 23 cold-start screenshots and Health & Fitness has 17; Magazines & Newspapers has 6, Weather 5, and News 5. Use absolute counts and direct examples rather than a prevalence percentage, and consider a dedicated cold-start screen an established convention for fitness, meditation, and learning apps but a potential differentiator elsewhere. The research was published 2026-07-07 and updated July 2026.

[How common is a dedicated cold-start (first-run) screen, and which apps use one?](<https://www.lazyweb.com/research/cold-start-first-run-screen-prevalence>)

Source observed: 2026-09-30T00:36:51.581Z. Last checked: 2026-10-08T03:18:11.813+00:00.

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