

For some of the more popular apps - like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Snapchat, for example - you’ll even find a few different options from which to choose. The app also includes a searchable database with thousands of symbols and logos to choose from - including symbols for your most-used apps as well as harder-to-find generic symbols, like the RSS symbol, for instance. You can pick solids, gradients or even a photo as your icon background, or opt to use a premium background you’ve purchased.Īnd if you’re setting your own color as the background, Mycons lets you choose between using a color grid, color spectrum, adjusting sliders or entering a specific Hex Color number to get exactly the right shade. Once the Icon Studio’s full customization capabilities are unlocked, you’ll find them to be fairly extensive. Some existing apps have retooled to address user demand for icons, like Launcher, while others have debuted paid icon marketplaces, like Brass. 8 on the App Store’s (non-game) top free apps chart, as of the time of writing.īut while most of the new customization apps focus on creating your own iOS 14 widgets, those that help users design their own icon sets are more difficult to find. Today, top custom widget provider Widgetsmith continues to rank at No. The trend doesn’t seem to be a flash-in-the-pan, either. As a part of this trend, users also rediscovered how to use Apple’s Shortcuts app to create custom icons for their favorite apps in order to match their new home screen aesthetic.Īs a result, home screen customization apps shot to the top of the App Store in the days and weeks following the iOS 14 launch. With the release of iOS 14 in mid-September, millions of users began to take advantage of new functionality like iOS widgets to customize their iPhone home screens. A new app called Mycons launched today and is tapping into the iOS 14 home screen customization trend by making it easier for anyone, including non-designers, to quickly create their own custom icons, as well as shop premade icon-and-wallpaper packs from designers.
