FolderPainter
- macOS
Custom macOS folder icons — color tints, SF Symbols, images, and text overlays
FolderPainter recolors and decorates macOS folder icons. Pick from a 31-color palette, then layer on an SF Symbol, an image from your clipboard or an installed app, or text and emoji. Offset, opacity, and size sliders position the overlay, and the rendered icon can be exported as a .icns. The tinting uses a sourceAtop composite with symbol colors measured off Apple's own Developer folder icon, so results sit closer to native than a flat hue shift.
What it does
Who this is for
Anyone who navigates by color and wants their folders to look like the system drew them.
Specs
- Platform
- macOS
- Built With
- Swift & SwiftUI
- Requires
- macOS 13+
- Telemetry
- None
FolderPainter is still in the lab
Built and running, but not packaged for release — so there is nothing honest to link to yet. It ships when it ships.
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