Comparison

IconForge vs Icon CREATE

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

Head to head
About

IconForge

Generate professional app icons in seconds using AI. Describe your app, choose a style, and get unique concepts. Preview your icon on all Apple devices before saving in HD.

Highlights
  • AI-generated icon concepts
  • Multiple professional styles
  • HD 1024x1024 output
  • Multi-device previews
  • Fast generation (under 60 seconds)
  • No design skills needed
Features
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Describe your app in one sentence, pick a style, and get six app icon concepts. Choose one, render it in HD at 1024 × 1024, and see it at real size on every Apple device. Type what the app does and what the icon should show, for example "a paper crane, for a journaling app". Before anything is drawn, your sentence is expanded into a full design brief: subject, composition, colour and what to leave out. Six concepts are then drawn from that brief at once, so you get six different takes rather than six near-copies. Seven styles: Glassmorphism, Flat, 3D Clay, Gradient, Minimal, Neon and Skeuomorphic. Every concept is full-bleed square artwork with no text in it. iOS and macOS apply their own rounded mask, and one clear subject holds up when the icon shrinks. Preview Sizes puts your icon, with your app name under it, at the sizes people will actually see: a 24-point Apple Watch notification, iPhone Spotlight and Home Screen, iPad and iPad Pro, the Mac from 16 × 16 up to 512 × 512, and the 1024 App Store tile. Most icon problems only show up small, and this is where you catch them before you ship. When it looks right, save the 1024 × 1024 image to Photos or send it anywhere through the share sheet, then drop it into your Xcode asset catalog. You can start a new icon from Control Center, or ask Siri to "make an icon with IconForge". It runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

About

Icon CREATE

Features
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Easy to use app icon creator app. Add objects, edit their properties, move them with drag and drop. Edit the background with gorgeous patterns and gradients.

Screenshots

IconForge4 screens
Icon CREATE4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Icon CREATE at none against IconForge's 1. Icon CREATE also leads on iOS requirement (18.1 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support 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. IconForge sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Icon CREATE asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
IconForge versus Icon CREATE: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIconForgeIcon CREATE
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMahanti CorporationBruno Theodor Kretzschmar

In-app purchases

1 purchases

IconForge

One-time1
  • Image Processing$0.99
None

Icon CREATE

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is IconForge free?
IconForge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Icon CREATE free?
Icon CREATE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do IconForge or Icon CREATE have ads?
Neither IconForge nor Icon CREATE shows ads.

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