Icons Express For Mac

Icons Express is a slim and highly intuitive Mac OS X utility that helps you generate custom icons for iOS and Android apps or in a custom size. This the less enhanced version of Icons, which comes with many more options and settings. Icons Express keeps only the essential features in Icons and bundles them in a lightweight package.

Just by taking a peek at the app’s user interface, you immediately know how to use it. A drag and drop area in the middle of the main window allows you to drop the images you want to create icons from.

Icons Express provides support for numerous image formats, including TIFF, BMP, JPEG, PSD, PNG, and many other. Keep in mind that they should be 512 x 512 pixels in size. A toolbar at the top lets you enter the icon name and export them when everything is set.

What is great about Icons Express is that it enables you to preview each icon format before exporting. You can switch between views of your original image, iPhone 4 / iPad / iPhone, Android and custom formats from the bar above the icon preview area. Several global options help you personalize the icons.

The global options include adding rounded corners and glass, rounded corners only, as well as generating iOS, Android, custom or reflection icons and iTunes artwork. All these options can be selected simultaneously. Thus, Icons Express can export all the aforementioned types of icons with a single click.

Taking all said into consideration, Icons Express is an efficient an straightforward icon generation tool for your iOS, Android or desktop applications. It offers a smooth workflow, essential features and its price / value ratio is good. However, if you want a more full-featured icon creator, check out the Icons app.