Icon Maker vs Skycast
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Icon Maker
Create a variety of visual content, including posters, infographics, maps, and social media graphics. Offers a wide range of templates, icons, and fonts for easy customization. Save and edit your designs later.
- 72 design templates
- 2000+ pro icons
- 40+ maps
- 22 fonts
- Load, Save, and Copy layouts
- Export PNG files
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Icon Designer is the latest graphic design app by the creator of Icongraph - Infographic Maker. Building on the simple usability of the first app, this app has improved icon and text control, many more design template layouts, and the user now has the flexibility to save and copy their designs to edit later. You can also use our 70+ ready made templates - featuring icon layouts, helpful diagrams for getting your ideas across and maps in many styles. WHAT CAN ICON DESIGNER BE USED FOR? - Design posters and signs - Create your own infographics - Make awesome Presentation graphics and title pages - Professional looking maps - Profile Icons and logos - Graphics for your Social Media and Blog Posts APP FEATURES - 72 design templates - 40+ maps (vector and aerial maps) - 2000+ pro icons - 18 icon categories + icon search tool - 22 fonts - Load, Save and Copy layouts - Insert or Replace templates in your current layout - Export PNG files via the iOS Share controls (Send to Airdrop + Apple Files) MAPS - 4 world vector maps - 12 aerial photo map backgrounds - 4 watercolour photo map backgrounds - 2 data photo map backgrounds (blue & red) - 8 continent maps (including 3 United States maps) Country maps for: China, France, Germany, Italy, India, Indonesia, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Spain, Thailand, UK, Russia, Ukraine. RATIOS Toggle your layout as you work. Ratios and image export sizes in pixels: 16:9 (Landscape) - 3072x1728 4:3 - 2048x1536 Square - 1920x1920 9:16 (Portrait) - 1152x2048 8:10 (US Letter) - 2550x3300 21:9 (Wide) - 2560x1080 EDUCATION VERSION Icon Designer can be a powerful tool for teachers looking to bring graphics to the classroom. Are you a teacher who would like to buy this app for your school? Schools can get 50% off the app price by taking advantage of Apple's Volume purchase programme on the paid app version. ** Please note the Icon Designer - Teaching Tool is for iPad only.
Skycast
Transform your device's screen into a dynamic display of personalized information. Design custom wallpapers with weather, calendar events, health data, and more, all automatically updated through automations.
- Visual editor for layer-by-layer design
- Real-time weather and personal data integration
- Customizable fonts, gradients, and effects
- Automation via Shortcuts app
- Community theme discovery and sharing
- JavaScript and Canvas for custom effects
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Create a screen that shows more than just a wallpaper: your weather, your day, your style. Skycast transforms your Lock Screen and Home Screen into dynamic, personalized wallpapers and widgets—designed by you and kept up to date automatically. DESIGN YOUR OWN WALLPAPER Use the visual editor to build your design layer by layer. Add the temperature, weather forecasts, calendar events, reminders, health data, weather icons, photos, shapes, charts, maps, and much more. With more than 700 fonts, gradients, shadows, and an elegant glass effect, every theme can be customized down to the pixel. YOUR OWN HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Design widgets in the same editor—small, medium, large, or extra large. Couple a widget to your wallpaper and it shows exactly the region behind it, so it looks transparent. Or use Liquid Glass, iOS system glass, or your own photo as the backdrop. Clock, calendar, reminders, forecasts, weather alerts, RSS headlines, and Apple Music controls update live inside the widget. Tap actions open apps, links, and Shortcuts directly. Pages and toggleable folders put several views into one widget. AUTOMATICALLY STAY UP TO DATE Connect Skycast to the Shortcuts app and create an automation. Your wallpaper can then refresh in the morning, every hour, or whenever you choose. Widgets fetch weather and news on their own, even when the app is closed. Wake up to a screen that is already up to date. REAL-TIME WEATHER AND PERSONAL DATA Choose from four weather providers: • Open-Meteo — no API key required • The Weather Company • OpenWeatherMap • Pirate Weather Some providers require your own API key. Skycast displays current weather conditions, hourly and daily forecasts, sunrise and sunset times, moon phases, and severe weather alerts. Calendar events, reminders, steps, and location data can also be integrated directly into your designs. FOR EXPLORERS AND CREATORS Browse themes created by the community in the Discover tab or share your own themes—widgets included—via AirDrop. Want to take your designs even further? Create your own effects and interactive widgets using JavaScript and Canvas. Custom weather icon sets and background libraries are included. Join the iNNOVATION Discord community to get help, share your creations, and develop new ideas together. AVAILABLE IN YOUR LANGUAGE Skycast supports 32 languages and automatically adapts to your device language. SKYCAST PRO Unlock all features with a single one-time purchase—including wallpapers for both the Home Screen and Lock Screen, theme import and export, and premium weather providers. No subscription. Pay once and enjoy Skycast Pro. Download your weather. Make your screen.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Skycast at 5.0 against Icon Maker's 3.0. Skycast also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%). Icon Maker's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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
Both are free to download. Icon Maker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Skycast sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Skycast holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Icon Maker's written reviews are positive against 100% of Skycast's.
Icon Maker ships an update monthly, Skycast every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Icon Maker | Skycast |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 314 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Frosby Designs Ltd. | Willem Fasselt |
Customer experience
Icon Maker
Skycast
In-app purchases
Icon Maker
- Icon Designer Pro$12.99
Skycast
- Espresso$0.99
- Snack$2.99
- Lunch$3.99
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- Skycast Pro$5.99
- Dinner$8.99









