Icon Set Creator 4+

I struggle with creativity apps like Illustrator, Pixlemator, Vectornator etc. I can use them, but I prefer not to.

I have just started developing apps and the throught of spending hours trying to get eactly the right size of image, several times, was daunting. Most of my early work has no app icon.

I found a link to this app on stack overflow, and I owe that person a drink for that link! This app is possibly the single most useful app I have used thus far in my devloping carrer. It cuts hours of my workload, and I don't need to worry about exact sizing. I would happily pay for this app beyond just the £1.99 IAP for 'coffee'.

This app pretty much does exactly what it sets out to do!

The only issue I’ve encountered is with transparency; Apple rejected an earlier version of one of my iOS apps made for a client, because the icon contained transparency, but even when I removed it from the source image (PNG), Icon Set Creator was still creating an icon set of transparency enabled PNGs, requiring an extra step to remove that. It's annoying, as this rule appears to be different from macOS, and Xcode happily allows you to use an icon with transparency in your iOS projects without raising any kind of warning, so it’s only when you submit to the app store that you become aware of it!

It would be nice in future to see support for this when creating iOS icon sets, for example a warning if the icon is transparet, and maybe an option ensure all traces of transparency are removed?

I really like this tool, what it does is simple, but it makes life much easier. Just drag an image onto it, and it will create an appicon set for iOS, macOS and others. An update to also include macCatalyst would be great. Until then, of course you can do that by hand by just merging the iOS and macOS icons.