

For added safety, make sure to backup your machine before making any changes. If you want to revert to the defaults, a quick button will remove any changes you’ve made to the system. Any time I made a change, it immediately took effect after I accepted a prompt that would warn me about potential changes such as, “We’re restarting your dock, are you okay with that?” System icons, application icons, and even the dock are freely available to alter. This allows for easy drag-and-drop changes which are verified via an apply button. On the right you can get various meta-information about the icon you’re looking at.Īs you navigate through IconBox, your Boxes will usually be available via a slidable tray underneath target icons. Also available is a search bar allows you to search for icons as you browse through the app, its search location dictated by what box or icons you’re currently looking at.
#Iconbox app download#
The four “locations” as I call them, are destinations for your Boxes, system & application icons, resources icons (x-ray) for individual apps, and a download center for finding new icons. A slider at the bottom of the screen allows you to alter the size of the icons as you see fit.Īlong the top of the application, we have various icons depicting places where you can edit app icons.

Along the right sidebar, various Boxes help you filter the icons you see, allowing for easy organization and quick reference to recent items and all things trashed (which is treated and emptied like iPhoto). For everything you import and download into IconBox, it will always be available here. IconBox opens into My Box, which acts as an Inbox for all the Boxes, Smart Boxes, and Groups. IconBox provides icon lovers new and old with a great toolset that’s persuaded me to use it over Panic’s own Candy Bar 3 (the choice was simply a matter of preference). While it may look intimidating at first glance due to its large feature set, there’s nothing to be afraid of. It’s akin to what LittleSnapper did for me for Flickr photos IconBox is a library chock-full of considerate features that helps me organize interesting findings. If you haven’t heard about IconBox and their latest 2.0 release, or you’re on the fence about an application like this, I think you’ll enjoy this review.

#Iconbox app full#
Today, I’d like to introduce you to IconBox, a full featured icon library for your Mac. Though after folders and folders of icons, you might be wondering if there’s a better way to organize your collection of icons.
#Iconbox app mac#
The Mac community is full of young and vibrant designers willing to get down and dirty with Photoshop, and entire communities are built around various Mac themes, icon sets, and related design mischief. I know quite a few of you MacStories readers are die hard icon fanatics.
