Art & Design
Brass - Icon Themes & Widgets
Icon packs, themes and widgets for customising an iOS home screen, free with ads or paid without.
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- Developer
- Gorilla Technologies S.r.l.
- Score
- 4.6
- Downloads
- 100K+ ratings
- Age
- Rated 12+
- Version
- 3.1.81
- Price
- Free
Screenshots
About this app
Home screen customisation for iPhone is what Brass is for. It supplies collections of app icon sets in different styles, matching themes and configurable widgets, so the default look of iOS can be swapped for something more deliberate. It arrived with the iOS 14 widget changes and still trades on them. Icon themes can be downloaded and applied to your most-used apps, and widgets, including a weather widget, can be customised to match. The listing is light on specifics beyond that, so the appeal is the breadth of the library rather than any one feature. The app is free with ads, and the developer's own quoted reviews note that watching ads is the alternative to paying. A weekly or annual premium subscription removes the ads and opens all content and updates.
Brass - Icon Themes & Widgets: the full guide
What the app is
The default iPhone home screen bores a lot of people, and Brass exists to replace it. It supplies icon sets in several styles, themes to match them and widgets you can configure, so the stock iOS look can be swapped for something chosen on purpose. Its origin is the iOS 14 widget update, and that is still its selling point.
Icon themes are downloaded and applied to the apps you use most, and widgets, including one for weather, can be styled similarly. The listing gives little more detail, so the draw is the library's size rather than any single feature. It's free with ads, or paid without.
How it works day to day
A session is a redecorating job. You browse the theme library until something fits, download the icon set, and work through the apps you use most, swapping each icon. Then a widget or two gets styled to the same palette, and the home screen looks finished. Most people do this once, then come back every few months when the look grows stale or a new season's themes appear.
On the free tier, each download is likely preceded by an advert, which the developer's own quoted reviews acknowledge as the trade-off for not paying.
Why people look for it
Home screen customisation became a hobby after iOS 14, and people search for icon-pack apps by category more than by name; Brass has the ratings to surface near the top. Matching icons and widgets in one place is the convenience. A 4.6 rating from more than a hundred thousand reviewers shows a large audience happy enough with the ad-or-pay model.
Look and feel
The product is the look, so the five screenshots are almost certainly finished home screens in different styles: minimal monochrome, pastel, dark, perhaps a seasonal set. In Art & Design the app's own interface matters less than the catalogue it shows, and expect a gallery layout built for browsing. The weather widget will probably feature as the showpiece.
