Iconology is designed to help you generate icons for applications. The tool supports creating icons for multiple platforms, including iOS, MacOS, iMessage, and Apple Watch. The utility comes with a series of presets to make your work easier, yet it allows you to edit the custom presets so the results can better fit your needs.
With a clear-cut and intuitive interface, the application is very easy to use. Loading the source image for icons is done simply by drag-and-drop or by browsing your computer from within the app. Unlike other free similar tools, you don't have restrictions regarding the size of the input image, mainly because Iconology provides handy editing features that let you customize the image for your own needs. Therefore, you have the ability to reduce or enlarge the image scale simply by dragging a slider, set the position of the picture within the icon area, choose a favorite background color if desired, round the corners at a custom level, and adjust the padding area between the icon content and its borders. Unfortunately, the tool doesn't support adding text over the icon image. However, you can enter a prefix to identify the results easier when browsing for generated icons.
To conclude, Iconology offers an easy solution to make original icons for your apps. The chance to edit the input image before generating the icons represents the tool's major asset.
v2.0
Major 2.0 Release!
The interface has been rewritten and image editing has been vastly improved
Every interface has been redesigned to match the current macOS design language and improve usability
- Editor view rearranged to position items in a more natural order
- Image adjustments reworked to fit more settings while feeling less cramped
- Custom preset editing redesigned to match the new Big Sur style
- Selecting a preset now automatically applies default adjustments (makes macOS generation even more convenient)
- Drag a new image onto the editor to replace the current one
- Support for multiple editor windows at once
- Unified preset selector
- Shift slider now matches the aspect ratio
- Prefix is now set in the save panel
- Improved accessibility
- Now uses SwiftUI (for reactivity, resizing, and improved development speed)
Image generation has new capabilities and improved performance
- Continuous curvature (macOS style) and squircle rounding styles (these were quite a journey to implement... you can read about it on my blog)
- Drop shadows
- Gradient backgrounds
- Selecting color spaces
- PNG export size is now set manually instead of the original image size
- Image sizing now uses a more logical system. Instead of being set by the input image, it is set by the selected preset. This makes the preview genuinely reflective of what the output will be.
- Control over color spaces
- The generation pipeline has been reworked to improve consistency and performance
Because of all of the interface features, Iconology now requires macOS Ventura. If this is an issue, you can still use an old version from GitHub.
I created the initial version of Iconology exactly five years ago to use as a tool in my workflow. I hope this update improves its usefulness in your workflow as well.
