makeIcon 3.0
The end of the little blue folders has arrived.
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makeIcon lets you organize your macOS folders by giving each one a custom icon made from any picture — or just a color — in a few clicks.
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PH · launched Oct 20, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Design Tools
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Yes A native macOS utility that sets custom folder icons from an image is a small Swift/AppKit app using NSWorkspace icon APIs. An AI-assisted builder can produce this quickly.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #183 of 334 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 276 days after the earliest competitor.
- TinyFolder · ph · 2026-10-04 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- NyaIcon · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Free Icon Maker · ph · 2026-09-16 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Luere Icon Studio · ph · 2026-10-22 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Pathsta · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- docklayout · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- ExposeIcons — Mission Control · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Pica · ph · 2026-04-26 · 209 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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