Icon Themer: Widget & Shortcut Reviews

I liked IconThemer, it was useful especially after the icon themer shortcut can’t be users for iOS 14.5 and up.

It has themes and icons that work great. But there’s a monthly premium (can’t blame them for trying to stabilize their business) which puts certain themes behind paywalls, and downloading more than three apps harder with having to watch ads for every free download. The premium isn’t too bad if you can pay for it, but I couldn’t.

The biggest issue though is that there are some apps that don’t work or work funny. I couldn’t get tumblr, and one of my certain weather apps was bugging out. And not to mention that for some reason when you open the messages app through their icons it always makes you start a new conversation instead of just going to IconThemer . The icon themer mentioned before did something similar, but not with every app. It’s a little frustrating to have to wait for the extra shortcut.

Other than that I loved the excess of icons! I was able to make icons that I wouldn’t normally be able to find online/on Pinterest.

Ok so don’t get me wrong IconThemer looks great and the colors are aesthetic, you can make your own icons and everything but... It’s not free, you have to pay I think 10$ for a week and 20$ for a year. At first I didn’t mind it and I understand you have to make money and they have an advertisement option too so I thought it was fair if I watch 1 ad and then get 1 icon. But the advertisement didn’t work it just said something was wrong and to try again, so I did. It didn’t work I exited IconThemer I restarted my device but nothing worked. I came to a conclusion that you HAVE to pay, they don’t have any free option which I think is ridiculous, and I don’t really want to pay 20$ so I can have and aesthetic Home Screen. I’m not sure if the ad worked for others but I think you should have some sort of free option.

As far as a customization utility tool IconThemer falls very short. There is no custom color where or grid for starters, only a handful of pre picked gradients and solid color backgrounds for apps.

IconThemer icons are all there and that is mildly convenient, but it’s HOW IconThemer customizes your icons that really really rips you off. It’s only bookmarks. Why is that a rip off? Well for one it’s going to add an extra step just to open your app. You’re not changing you app icon, but instead are making a bookmark that is a link that opens your app. This makes apps like messaging, google chrome, and several others act very poorly. Chrome not even able to be opened. Messages opens up a new message every time you click.

With so limited of options and generally just poor functionality I am kind of mad I payed 20$ for IconThemer. It met none of my expectations s and stuck me with a bill. 0/10 do not recommend

IconThemer has a decent amount of cute themes and stuff for free, you do have to pay for a premium subscription (I didn't). However, on IconThemer they have a Weather Icon as part of many themes, but IconThemer Weather is not available to change icons. Could the creators please do an update where Weather is an available app? Also, I have found that the calendar icon is not correct, it does not change from Mon 22, which is far from correct. Thank you!
EDIT: I was only allowed to download 3 icons before it wouldn’t even let me watch an ad, I would have to pay. Please just make it so we don’t have to pay; all we want is a nice home screen.

IconThemer was great at first! It allowed me to download pictures and use my shortcut app to add them to the right icons on my home screen. Then when I decided to change my fall home screen for a Christmas one, I came back, and the whole app changed-for the worst. Now everything cost money. Yes all the designs are cute, but if you want to continue without the unlimited access, you have to watch the same 30 second add for every icon you want to download. Plus they don’t have as many icons available per design, I think I only got ten icons opposed to IconThemer before when I could download icons for every single app on my phone. So yes, IconThemer was great at first, and I really liked the way it worked, but then they changed the whole app, and now I’m far from impressed.

This is a basic app for which sample-level creations are offered at cost. Do not buy for the icon creation, which is one third of IconThemer offerings, because you can download any icon symbol you wish for free on the internet or create one yourself. This applies only to those who know how to, which is simple, and personalization basics. The background selection on the icon creator featuring Apple multi-colors, is also available for free if you do search for it. Don’t use your money to buy it.

Creating widget r are at this point, requiring a bit more than basic skills to personalize, however, IconThemer is nonetheless just, featuring creations for people who do not know that these they have created for a charge, was basic for the developer too... meaning IconThemer is a dumping of stock imagery (so to speak) likely to just fund into a better app they will develop later.

So I was doing adding them to my screen, and I was happy unitil I noticed for the green tea pack, the clock is not centered on IconThemer . I also noticed that after 3 downloads it had ads every single time which I don’t mind, but some people do. They kept on repeating the same type of ads, and I was getting annoyed. After a few downloads, it stopped and once I tried to click on it, it said the “buy prenium” or something, also please please please add the widgets for the green tea pack. Thank you!

I downloaded IconThemer and at first everything went smoothly then I saw the option to upload the icon from IconThemer and I tried it at first it said I needed to buy premium but it also gave me a choice to “do it for free” so I clicked that. IconThemer told me to pick which app I wanted to replace the icon for and I did then it took me to safari and it told me press the share button then to save it to my device and I did. But it didn’t work I didn’t think anything of it and i was just going to leave a review saying it didn’t work then I noticed none of my apps were working except for my settings so I quickly reset my phone and all my apps are working but I did notice a few odd things. I’m not sure if it gave me a virus or not but I definitely wouldn’t recommend IconThemer to anyone.

The main reason why I downloaded IconThemer, and payed for the yearly subscription, was to be able to put a custom background and have a logo on top. I am satisfactory with the simplicity of this rather than trying to photoshop and edit it myself.

However I would like there to be more icon options. Like a simple Netflix logo, calendar, calculator, maybe a doordash logo? Just popular apps that people use today! Less icons like Yahoo, and Vine that no one uses anymore. 😅A good 60% of those icons are useless in my opinion, and i can’t even name what half of them are. Also better sorting of icons? So I don’t scroll past the ones i find usefull..

I liked IconThemer at first, and was thinking about switching to premium. I had to wait a little bit because I have in app purchases turned off and had to wait for my dad to allow them. Well, somehow, it got purchased. I think I might have accidentally clicked it or something. Well, I just left it, figuring I could just use the benefits since
I had already paid for them. Well, none of the benefits work. It won’t let me download all of the themes, it won’t let me create custom widgets. I tried emailing them because it wasn’t working, and it has been over a month and they haven’t responded. So, don’t waste your time. You can’t hardly use it without premium, and when you pay for it, it doesn’t even work. Not happy at all.

I love IconThemer, and I can create the icons I need and then save them to my phone and work though my Apple shortcuts. I love the many icon choices and the preselected colors make it easier for me to see what looks good. HOWEVER, I can only open up IconThemer twice before it only shows a loading screen and doesn’t open up IconThemer . I then have to delete IconThemer and redownload it to get back into the service. Wish you guys could fix this bug, I love IconThemer.

The themes look really nice and not amateur looking. Now, I don’t know if I've been doing it wrong but when I replace the icons, for example, I click on Safari. It goes jumps/opens the Icon Changer app, then shortcuts app, then finally Safari opens.. why is it not seamless? And it bugs me because I did pay for premium and I just find it so annoying to deal with. I kind of want my money back because I’m not satisfied with that part. If you can tell me how to make it seamless, great but if not, never again and I’ll be changing this to a 1 star.

The colors/backgrounds we get to choose from are great. However, there should be more icons to choose from.

Just an idea: Make it possible for IconThemer to detect which apps my phone has. There should be an image of each home screen page with the apps on it. That way, I can just tap which app I want to customize.

I would leave the customization process the way it is. It’s PERFECT!

ok. so IconThemer is AMAZING before you add 9 apps. but, past that, you can’t add anymore apps. and if your anything like me, you don’t want to spend any money just to make something that should be free. but, if you don’t mind paying a few extra dollars, then the possibilities are endless! (until you reach the end of the list) but they really need to make a least 3 of the themes free for those who either don’t have money or who want to spend their money on something that is really worth it.

It is a great app but , I am not willing to pay to open the apps! There is a subscription that is the bad part. And also should IconThemer should to recognize IconThemer we have already in the iPhone to make our own widget with IconThemer we have in our iPhone. But over roll pretty good. Unfortunately my suscripción ended it soon, I don’t think I will be able to open IconThemer any more. MAKE IT FREE

Spent $20 and am very disappointed in the amount of themes available. Also have had some issues getting icons to work once I create them. Things flip to different things and just isn’t fluid. All has a lot of potential, just sad I paid for it at this point.

By “flip” I mean it jumps around and goes to the shortcut app then would flip to the actual app you want then back to shortcuts and eventually open up IconThemer . Just wasnt a smooth transition.

Hard to understand and when you make one it just makes a whole new cover so now you have 2 of the same apps and you also have to down load the shortcuts app for this to work. It just copies IconThemer into the design you chose and pretty much made it a link to IconThemer . You also have to pay for premium to make it easier. Over all wouldn’t recommend. I will say though they make it very customizable.

When I got IconThemer I was just looking for a simple free app with black and white apps. But when I got it IconThemer said “continue with limited version at the bottom” I pressed that expecting free app icons but when I got to the icons it said I would need to pay so I went through all of them to see if any of them were free. None. So if you don’t mind using 5 bucks your in luck but I just wanted a free app which this is not. Sorry for the review just speaking my opinion and experience.✌️

First how do I even download the themes 2nd why do I have to pay for more 3rd this takes up half of my storage 4th IconThemer itself it’s okay I guess so maybe this is a cute app please fix the download maybe do more Christmas themes I think imma do it and pay for the thing I like IconThemer really a lot other than that it’s AMAZING 🤩

I like IconThemer. It is simple to use, and has everything I am looking for. The only problem is that when it asks me to watch an add to create my shortcut, and I accept, it will not stop loading. The loading goes on forever, even when I close IconThemer and open it again. I have to continuously reinstall IconThemer . Other than that, it is a good app. If you have patience, I recommend IconThemer . Otherwise, look for a different one.

This is a must have app 🌺

I like the idea of it however it only lets me choose 1 icon and I think it should have more options of icons and colors.

Really easy to use and intuitive but only allows you to choose 10 apps to customize over (for example, can’t even choose the mail app???? Why?)

While it’s cool to use however there should be more of apps to choose from when changing apps.

It’s more limited to google items than looking at your own apps. I can only customize 3 things on my phone...not fun

Only works for a few popular
Apps. Pointless when you can’t change all.

There are literally like 7 apps to choose from! Make it so you can search the appstore for IconThemer you want to change!

I think it would be great if it worked for all apps - it only works for about a dozen.

Nice

It only allows me to make a single black and white messenger icon

but only lets you switch the icon for a few apps :/

You can’t change all IconThemer icons. IconThemer is very misleading.

It won't even let me pick a Color...
DO NOT GET

Best thing ever