Comparison

Icon Text Maker vs Icon SD for custom home screen

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

Head to head
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!

About

Icon SD for custom home screen

Easily design custom icons for your device's home screen. Personalize with template colors, numerous symbols, and your own photos as backgrounds. Adjust foreground and background colors, and add icon borders for a unique look.

Highlights
  • Create custom icons
  • Use own photos for background
  • Template colors
  • Many symbols available
  • Choose foreground color
  • Choose background color
  • Icon border customization
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Create icons for Shortcuts app. Features: template colors. many symbols use my photo to background. choose foreground color. choose background color. icon border.

Screenshots

Icon Text Maker4 screens
Icon SD for custom home screen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Icon Text Maker at none against Icon SD for custom home screen's shown. Icon Text Maker also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and device support (3 vs 1). Icon SD for custom home screen's advantage is ratings volume (81 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 Text Maker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Icon SD for custom home screen 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 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Icon SD for custom home screen has 81 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Icon Text Maker's written reviews are positive against 46% of Icon SD for custom home screen's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Icon Text Maker versus Icon SD for custom home screen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIcon Text MakerIcon SD for custom home screen
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.6 (81 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews — better46.4% of reviews
Number of ratings181 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.4 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB20 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperaZeR DiLLsDaisuke Suzuki

Customer experience

Icon Text Maker

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

Icon SD for custom home screen

All ratings79 ratings
Positive87.3%
Neutral7.6%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive46.4%
Neutral26.8%
Negative26.8%

Bugs and requests

Icon Text Maker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Icon SD for custom home screen

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Background images not loading
  • Cannot save images
  • App stops working
  • Widgets bugged
  • Icons misaligned after iOS update
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  • App crashes after update
  • Transparent icons not working
  • Text color not reflecting
  • Cannot open apps after changing icons
  • Notification badges not visible

Requested features

10 requests
  • Support for iOS 26
  • Support for large icons (iOS 18)
  • Add reset function
  • More icon variations
  • Add more symbols
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  • Support for iPad Pro
  • Add 'News' icon
  • Add game icons
  • Add icons for common apps (LINE, Twitter, TikTok, etc.)
  • Improve icon alignment

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Icon Text Maker

One-time1
  • Icon Text Maker Full Version$1.99
1 purchases

Icon SD for custom home screen

One-time1
  • Pro version.$6.99

Questions

Is Icon Text Maker free?
Icon Text Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Icon SD for custom home screen free?
Icon SD for custom home screen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Icon Text Maker or Icon SD for custom home screen?
Icon Text Maker is rated higher. Icon Text Maker averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Icon SD for custom home screen averages 4.6 from 81 ratings.
Do Icon Text Maker or Icon SD for custom home screen have ads?
Icon SD for custom home screen shows ads; Icon Text Maker does not.

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