Comparison

Icon Changer vs Icon Text Maker

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Icon Changer

Easily personalize your device's home screen with custom app icons, backgrounds, and layouts. Transform emojis, letters, or photos into unique icons with a vast library of glyphs and colors. Create cohesive themes with matching wallpapers for a truly personalized look.

Highlights
  • Create custom app icons
  • Use emojis and letters for icons
  • Access over 2000 system glyphs
  • Hundreds of color options
  • Add personal photos to icons
  • Design custom gradient backgrounds
  • Organize icons with stacks
  • Generate matching wallpapers
Features
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Icon Maker - Your Gateway to Personalized Icons and a Custom Home Screen Transform your device with a unique home screen theme and icons that match your personal style—easily apply a new home screen theme and icons in just a few taps. Use the app to customize home screen elements like app icons, backgrounds, and layouts—it's never been easier to customize home screen settings your way. Enjoy the power of a full home screen customizer that lets you create a look you love—this home screen customizer gives you full creative control to personalize your device. Make your home screen stand out with Icon Maker! Whether you're a minimalist, a creative enthusiast, or someone who loves to experiment, this app is your go-to tool for designing gorgeous icons effortlessly. With Icon Maker, personalizing your phone is fun and incredibly simple. Let your home screen reflect your unique style with a whole new level of customization! Why Choose Icon Maker? With Icon Maker, you can easily create professional-grade, App Store-quality icons that are pixel-perfect and seamlessly integrate with the “Open App” action of shortcuts. It provides a creative playground for users who want to personalize their device's home screen like never before. From everyday essentials to your favorite apps, you can bring your aesthetic vision to life in a few taps. Unleash Your Creativity: Key Features Turn Emojis & Letters into Icons: Transform any emoji or letter into a custom icon that represents your personality. Choose the symbols that speak to you and make them a part of your daily experience. Access to Over 2000 System Glyphs: With over 2000 built-in system glyphs, you’ll never run out of options. From minimalistic designs to intricate symbols, there’s a glyph for every mood and function. Hundreds of Stunning Colors: Dive into a world of color! Pick from a broad palette of vibrant and sophisticated shades to make your icons pop. Express yourself through every hue imaginable. Add Photos to Your Icons: Want your favorite photos on your home screen? Now you can! Add personal images to your icons for an even more customized look. Fully Customizable Gradients: Love gradients? Icon Maker allows you to design breathtaking gradient backgrounds for your icons. Combine colors, play with shades, and watch your icons come to life. Organize with Icon Stacks: Tired of clutter? Organize your custom icons into stacks for a clean, streamlined home screen. This feature helps you keep your apps neatly grouped while maintaining your aesthetic. Create Seamless Themes with Matching Wallpapers With Icon Maker, you can go beyond icons. Take your personalization a step further by generating solid color wallpapers that perfectly coordinate with your icons. Whether you prefer minimalist themes or bold color statements, your home screen will feel cohesive, fresh, and stylish. Simple to Use, Fun to Explore You don’t need to be a graphic designer to enjoy Icon Maker! The intuitive interface ensures that everyone can enjoy creating icons, from beginners to experienced designers. Just dive in and start experimenting. With the vast array of customization options, your phone will soon reflect your personal style. Privacy Policy: https://zipoapps.com/iconmakerios/privacy/ Terms: https://zipoapps.com/iconmakerios/terms

About

Icon Text Maker

Create unique text-based icons for your device's home screen. Customize fonts, colors, borders, and backgrounds to design personalized shortcuts for any app. Save your creations directly to your photo library for easy integration with your device's shortcut app.

Highlights
  • Create text-based icons
  • Over 100 font choices
  • Customize font size and color
  • Add borders and background colors
  • Adjust text position
  • Save icons to photo library
  • Integrates with device shortcuts
Features
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Icon Text Maker app is a custom icon creator that allow users to create customized icons in the form of text with more than 100 type of beautiful fonts can be chosen. Since iOS12 users are allowed to create customize shortcuts for apps with user chosen icons. Icon Text Maker app makes it easy for users to create a text or alphabet type icon that can be used as a shortcut to any apps. Users can choose from more than 100 fonts from the list with many customization options as per below: 1. Change the font size 2. Choose the font colour 3. Create border for the icon 4. Customize border size 5. Choose border colour 6. Choose icon body / background colour 7. Adjust the text position up, down, left or right 8. Ability to create background colour for homescreen to match the icon's body colour All icons created will be saved in the device photo library and can be used directly with apple's own Shortcut app for customization. Icon Text Maker app is surely an easy to use app & with iOS14 widget customization features, this will be a perfect match to create a stunning homescreen display for your device. How to create a custom icon.. 1. Open Shortcut app (make sure to use the one from Apple). 2. Select "+". 3. Select "+ Add Action". 4. Select "Scripting". 5. Select "Open App". 6. Select "Choose" and pick the app that you wanted to open with this shortcut. 7. Select the round "..." button at the top right area under "Next". 8. Set your shortcut a name. 9. Tap on "Add to Home Screen". 10. Under the "HOME SCREEN NAME AND ICON", put the name that will be displayed under the Icon (tips: this name can be empty, this will make the icon clean without text at the bottom). 11. Tap the Icon and select "Choose Photo". 12. Select your desired image that was saved with Icon Text Maker app to become the shortcut Icon. 13. Select "Add" after a image has been selected as shortcut Icon. 14. Confirmation message will be displayed to say it is done!. 15. You can now repeat for every Shortcut you needed. 16. Note : you can actually use the same shortcut with different Icon photo set (meaning with the same one shortcut you can create & add as many icon as possible to be put in the home screen, but remember these all different photo icons will only open the one app that you specified earlier). This is useful if you wanted to create icons just for fun & just for nice display purposes. 17. If different app needs to be open with the Icon, you need to create a new shortcut with the above steps for each app. Enjoy!

Screenshots

Icon Changer4 screens
Icon Text Maker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Icon Text Maker at 5.0 against Icon Changer's 4.3. Icon Text Maker also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 16.1). Icon Changer's advantage is ratings volume (233 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Icon Changer sells 18 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Icon Text Maker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Icon Text Maker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Icon Changer has 233 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 58% of Icon Changer's written reviews are positive against 50% of Icon Text Maker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Icon Changer versus Icon Text Maker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIcon ChangerIcon Text Maker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (233 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews58.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings233 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.112.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size112 MB15 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperZipoAppsaZeR DiLLs

Customer experience

Icon Changer

All ratings233 ratings
Positive81.1%
Neutral8.2%
Negative10.7%
Written reviews69 reviews
Positive58.0%
Neutral15.9%
Negative26.1%

Icon Text Maker

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

Icon Changer

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • App crashes immediately upon opening with black screen
  • Wrong app icon displayed on launch
  • App kicks user out after seconds
  • Cannot save icons to camera roll without premium
  • Screenshots become blank when attempted
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  • Transparent PNG/JPEG backgrounds remain white
  • Widgets functionality broken after updates
  • Suspicious scam notifications about viruses and memory
  • Accidental purchases cannot be reversed

Requested features

12 requests
  • Ability to resize and manipulate images within app
  • Save custom colors for future use
  • Create and save icon sets or folders
  • Custom gradient creation tools
  • More symbol and glyph options
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  • Add both text and glyph simultaneously
  • Change text color independently
  • Gradient combinations with fade effects
  • Pre-made themes for quick download
  • More anime and design variety
  • One-time payment option instead of subscription
  • Better tutorial or onboarding instructions

Icon Text Maker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

18 purchases

Icon Changer

Subscriptions17
  • Unlimited access3 Days trial$0.997 Days
  • Unlimited access3 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • Unlimited access3 Days trial$2.997 Days
Show 14 more
  • Unlimited access3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Premium features3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Premium features3 Days trial$5.997 Days
  • Premium features3 Days trial$6.997 Days
  • Premium features3 Days trial$7.997 Days
  • Premium features3 Days trial$8.997 Days
  • Icon Maker Unlimited3 Days trial$9.991 Year
  • Premium features$9.997 Days
  • Unlimited access3 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Premium features3 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Unlimited access3 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Premium features3 Days trial$29.991 Month
  • Unlimited access3 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Unlimited access3 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Development Support Tip$0.99
1 purchases

Icon Text Maker

One-time1
  • Icon Text Maker Full Version$1.99

Questions

Is Icon Changer free?
Icon Changer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Icon Text Maker free?
Icon Text Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Icon Changer or Icon Text Maker?
Icon Text Maker is rated higher. Icon Changer averages 4.3 out of 5 from 233 ratings, while Icon Text Maker averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Icon Changer or Icon Text Maker have ads?
Icon Changer shows ads; Icon Text Maker does not.

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