Forrrge is a native Mac app for making app icons from a description.
Write what the icon should show, pick a style, compare what comes back,
and export the one that works straight into Xcode.
What you need
An Apple silicon Mac on macOS 15 or later.
Forrrge from the Mac App Store: $2.99 once, no subscription. The same purchase covers iPad.
An image-model API key from Google, OpenAI, or Hugging Face. One is
enough to start, and renders bill to that provider.
How the keys work.
From a sentence to an icon
Add your key. Open Settings (the gear, or
⌘,) and paste it in. It's stored in your Mac's
Keychain.
Describe the icon. Start with a mascot, metaphor,
object, or mood. You can add a reference image too.
Pick a style. Sixteen render styles, from Octane,
Glass, and Clay to Flat, Pixel, Low Poly, and Watercolor. Then tune
lighting, lens, palette, perspective, texture, and finish.
Pick a model. Seven image models across the three
providers. You choose per render.
Compare. Renders stream in as they generate. Keep the
good directions and throw away the rest. Every render saves to the
gallery with its full recipe, so you can see exactly what made it.
Clean it up. Remove the background in one click, on
your Mac.
Export. Drop a ready AppIcon set into Xcode, hand a
1024 PNG to Apple's Icon Composer, or export every PNG size. You can
also drag a render to Xcode, Figma, or Finder.
On iPad
The same forge runs on iPad (iPadOS 17 or later), included in the same
purchase. It exports a PNG through the share sheet to start. Xcode icon
packs stay on the Mac for now.
What stays on your Mac
Your key lives in Keychain, and your icons and the prompts that made
them save locally. When you generate, the prompt goes straight from
your Mac to the provider you picked. Forrrge has no server and no
account.
Forrrge · $2.99 once for Mac and iPad, plus your provider's API usage.