AppIconVault is a research and design workspace for app icons. Explore 12,000+ real App Store icons across 26 categories, study what top-ranked apps are doing, browse icons by developer, and track how icons change over time. Then design your own icon directly in the browser, preview it on iOS and Android home screens, and drop it into a real App Store category chart to see if it stands out. From inspiration to App Store-ready icon — all in one place.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I built AppIconVault around a question I kept running into:
How do you know if an app icon is actually good before shipping it?
Most icon galleries are great for inspiration. Most icon generators are great for exporting files.
But neither tells you what your icon looks like next to the apps you’re actually competing with.
So I built AppIconVault.
Today you can:
🔎 Explore 12,000+ real App Store icons across 26 categories
📈 Study Top Free and Top Paid charts
🕰️ See how app icons change over time
🏢 Browse the icon history of individual developers
🎨 Design your own icon directly in the browser
📱 Preview it on real iOS and Android-style home screens
🧪 Drop it into a live category chart and run a crowd test
👀 Check whether it looks too similar to existing icons
📦 Export production-ready icon packs for iOS, Android, web and more
The goal is simple:
Don’t design your app icon in isolation. Design it in the market where it has to compete.
I’d love to know — when choosing an app icon, what do you struggle with most: inspiration, differentiation, or knowing which version will perform better?
Thanks for checking out AppIconVault! ❤️