Comparison

AppIcon Maker vs Shortcut Toolkit

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

Head to head
About

AppIcon Maker

Features
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AppIcon Maker helps iOS and iPadOS developers turn one 1024x1024 image into asset-catalog-ready app icon exports. Import your artwork, preview the generated result, check the output summary, and export a ZIP that is ready to add to an app icon asset catalog. Designed for developers: - Modern app icon export with a single universal 1024x1024 iOS app icon - Classic Full Size Set export for explicit iPhone and iPad icon sizes - Automatic Contents.json generation - Preview and validation before export - Share-sheet ZIP export to Files, AirDrop, Mail, or your favorite workflow - Fully local processing with no accounts, cloud upload, ads, analytics, or tracking The free app lets you import artwork, preview results, and inspect the export summary. A one-time lifetime unlock enables creating and sharing export ZIPs. AppIcon Maker is a focused developer utility: simple, fast, native, and built with system frameworks.

About

Shortcut Toolkit

Features
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Shortcut Toolkit extends Apple Shortcuts with native, background actions for advanced automation. Build more dependable AI and agent workflows with tools to validate, extract, and safely repair JSON; validate dictionary schemas; build compact AI context; estimate tokens; and wrap action results in predictable formats. Keep local workflow state on your device with temporary values, persistent values, agent state, and conversation memory. Clean AI responses, process text and lists, create identifiers and hashes, work with URLs, and cache results without leaving Shortcuts. Create safe reusable custom blocks in the companion app, then select them directly in Shortcuts. Audio Spectrum blocks can analyze an audio file and return a PNG spectrum graph for the next step in your workflow. Shortcut Toolkit is designed to stay out of the way: actions run inside Shortcuts wherever Apple permits, return results directly to the next action, and keep data on-device unless you choose a Shortcut action that sends it elsewhere.

Screenshots

AppIcon Maker3 screens
Shortcut Toolkit3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Shortcut Toolkit at none against AppIcon Maker's 1. AppIcon Maker's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. AppIcon Maker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Shortcut Toolkit asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
AppIcon Maker versus Shortcut Toolkit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAppIcon MakerShortcut Toolkit
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size10 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRemi HerbietBridget Baker

In-app purchases

1 purchases

AppIcon Maker

One-time1
  • Lifetime Unlock$14.99
None

Shortcut Toolkit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AppIcon Maker free?
AppIcon Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Shortcut Toolkit free?
Shortcut Toolkit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do AppIcon Maker or Shortcut Toolkit have ads?
Neither AppIcon Maker nor Shortcut Toolkit shows ads.

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