Icon Pack Studio

Icon Pack Studio Review: Every App Themed, but Not on Every Launcher

What's free, and what IPS Pro adds for $0.99–$11.99 per item

The editor, the shape and color controls and community setups without a PRO badge cost nothing, and Google Play shows no Contains ads label on the listing. IPS Pro is sold through in-app purchases that Play lists at $0.99 to $11.99 per item in the U.S.; prices are regional and may change, so check the current figure in the app. The developer's changelog puts filters such as color swap, inversion and monochrome behind Pro, and How-To Geek's March 2025 guide adds some effects and textures. Setups marked PRO in the Explore tab need the license too. Reviewers mention both lifetime and subscription options, and the August 2026 update reworked license management and the purchase flow.

One style for every installed app, usually 40 to 200 icons

Instead of shipping a fixed set of drawings, the app applies your style to each installed app, so even obscure ones get a matching icon; the developer's FAQ for icon pack designers puts a typical export at 40 to 200 icons. Colors can come from the original app, a fixed HEX value, colors already in use or the wallpaper, and since version 2 you can import an installed icon pack and restyle it. The catch: a pack covers only the apps present when it was built. A 2020 developer reply on Google Play says only Smart Launcher themes new apps automatically, yet a July 2026 reviewer using it still had to reapply the theme daily.

14 tested launchers, with Pixel Launcher and One UI Home left out

The Play listing names 14 launchers the team has tested, including Nova, Niagara, Lawnchair and Microsoft Launcher, and 10 it does not support, among them Pixel Launcher, AOSP, Huawei's launcher and Samsung One UI Home. Owners of stock Pixel and Galaxy phones therefore need a second app before the editor is useful. The developer's help pages call Smart Launcher, made by the same company in Manfredonia, Italy, the recommended pairing because it reads these packs natively; every other launcher depends on an exported pack. In August 2026 a review with 63 helpful votes said an exported pack stopped working overnight, and in September another reviewer could not apply packs on a Lenovo tablet or a Xiaomi phone.

Data safety, permissions, and Good Lock or MyICON instead

Google Play's Data safety form says nothing is shared with third parties. Collected data covers app interactions, crash logs, device IDs for analytics and an optional email address, encrypted in transit, with deletion on request; the Smart Launcher privacy policy adds that Firebase Analytics reads the Android advertising ID. Play's permission list covers storage, network access, running at startup, keeping the device awake and installing shortcuts, and has no location, camera or contacts entry. Galaxy owners have another route: Samsung's Good Lock includes Theme Park, whose Create Icon Theme tool styles One UI Home icons and had passed 17 million downloads by March 2025. MyICON swaps single home-screen icons for your own photos, but its listing was last updated in December 2024.