Add Folder Icons For Mac

Add Folder Icons is a handy macOS utility that displays icons, which are taken from pictures in a folder, on top of the default blue icon of each folder. In other words, the application changes the appearance of folder icons with the pictures they contain.

Operating Add Folder Icons is really simple. Just drag and drop the folders you want to process onto the main window or use the Plus button, File menu item or the CMD + SHIFT + A hotkey. Afterwards, just click on the “Add Icons” button and wait for the app to process the folders.

If a folder contains one picture, Add Folder Icons will display it, and if there are more pictures, the app chooses them randomly. Moreover, the app features different styles for controlling the way icons are displayed on the folders. Styles can also be created by configuring several attributes.

By default, there are 3 available styles which can be found in the “Manage Styles” window or via the Icon Style menu on the lower part of the main window.

Some parameters you can toggle when creating a new style include cropping images to fit in a square, adding white borders, shadows or rotation and choosing the number of icons to be displayed.

Add Folder Icons offers plenty of flexibility when it comes to creating styles. Additional options are to never show the background folder icon, show it only if there is only 1 image in the folder or when only 3 icons are displayed. As a bonus option, icons can also be displayed to the subfolders of the folders you have processed.

To sum up, the application brings an interesting feature to Mac OS X that can definitely come in handy. What’s more, it is free to use and works exactly as advertised. It also provides freedom in configuring the way icons are displayed on folders.