jonafll / appiconupdate

Update multiple app icons on macOS

Appiconupdate

Simple wrapper script around fileicon to update multiple app icons on macOS with one command.

Setup

Prerequisites

fileicon needs to be installed on your system.

$ brew install fileicon

Installation

$ curl -sSL https://github.com/jonafll/appiconupdate/releases/download/v0.3.0/appiconupdate.sh > /usr/local/bin/appiconupdate && chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/appiconupdate

Create a directory for your app icons and place them in it. Icons work best as .icns or .png files with 512x512 pixels.

$ mkdir /path/to/icons

IMPORTANT: The name of the icon files must match the application name within /Applications!

$ ls /path/to/icons
Visual Studio Code.icns     Docker.icns

$ ls /Applications
Visual Studio Code.app      Docker.app

Usage

$ appiconupdate /path/to/icons

Optionally you can set the icon path as environment variable

export ICN_PATH=/path/to/icons

or create an alias.

alias appiconupdate="appiconupdate /path/to/icons"