Comparison

Shortcut Icon Maker vs Scribbly

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

Head to head
About

Shortcut Icon Maker

Create custom icons for your apps and personalize your device's home screen. Choose from over 1,000 icons with extensive customization options for size, color, and background. Easily save and use your creations with Apple's Shortcuts app for a unique display.

Highlights
  • Create custom app icons
  • Personalize home screen display
  • Over 1,000 icon sets
  • Adjust icon size and color
  • Customize background and borders
  • Save icons to photo library
  • Integrates with Apple's Shortcuts app
Features
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Shortcut Icon Maker app is a must have tool for users to create custom shortcut icons for apps and transform their device homescreen into a beautiful custom display with nice color scheme of their own choice. This is the best tool to have for customising the homescreen with any widgets. Choose from plenty of icons sets with more than 1,000 total icons from the list with many customisation options as per below: 1. Change the icon size 2. Choose the icon colour 3. Create border for the icon 4. Customize border size 5. Choose border colour 6. Choose icon body / background colour 7. Adjust the icon position up, down, left or right 8. Ability to create background colour for homescreen to match the icon's body colour. In this way, your icons will appear as if their background color is transparent. All icons created will be saved in the device photo library and can be used directly with apple's own Shortcut app for customisation. Shortcut Icon 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

Scribbly

Features
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Scribbly is the ultimate creative coloring app for all ages! Turn any photo into a beautiful coloring page and bring it to life with a rainbow of colors, fun brushes, stickers, and clipart. DRAWING TOOLS: • 7 Brush Types — Pencil, Pen, Sketch Pen, Brush, Crayon, Marker & Spray • Shape Tools — Draw lines, rectangles, circles, ovals & grids • Fill & Gradient Fill — Tap to fill areas with solid colors or beautiful gradients • Adjustable Brush Size — Slide to make strokes thin or thick CREATIVE EXTRAS: • Stickers & Clipart — Add fun stickers and 40+ clipart across 8 categories (animals, vehicles, nature, food, space & more) • Text Tool — Add text with custom Google Fonts, colors, shadows & outlines • Photo to Outline — Import any photo and Scribbly converts it into a coloring page • HSV Color Wheel — Pick from millions of colors PROJECT MANAGEMENT: • Name Your Projects — Give each drawing a custom name when saving • Save & Resume — Save your coloring projects and come back anytime • Gallery View — Browse all your saved projects with thumbnail previews • Layers — Work with multiple layers for more control MORE FEATURES: • Undo & Redo — Fix mistakes instantly • Pinch to Zoom — Zoom in for fine details, zoom out to see the big picture • Lasso & Selection — Select and move elements on the canvas • Crop Tool — Crop your canvas to the perfect size • Print — Print your artwork directly from the app • Share & Export — Save finished artwork to your gallery or share with family and friends • PDF Export — Export your creations as PDF PERFECT FOR: • Kids ages 4–12 who love coloring and drawing • Creative play and screen time that sparks imagination • Developing fine motor skills and color recognition • Family bonding through art activities Scribbly is designed to be simple and intuitive so kids can jump right in and start creating. No account needed, no data collected — just pure creative fun! Download Scribbly now and let your child's creativity shine!

Screenshots

Shortcut Icon Maker4 screens
Scribbly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Scribbly at none against Shortcut Icon Maker's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Shortcut Icon Maker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Scribbly asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Shortcut Icon Maker versus Scribbly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShortcut Icon MakerScribbly
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (31 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings31 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 15 months—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperaZeR DiLLsPrince Verma

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Shortcut Icon Maker

One-time1
  • Shortcut Icon Maker All Icons$1.99
None

Scribbly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Shortcut Icon Maker free?
Shortcut Icon Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Scribbly free?
Scribbly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Shortcut Icon Maker or Scribbly have ads?
Both Shortcut Icon Maker and Scribbly show ads.

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