Art & Design
Icon packs, widgets and still or live wallpapers for restyling an iPhone's home and lock screens.
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Three ingredients make up an iPhone makeover, and ThemePack supplies all of them: app icon sets, home screen widgets and wallpapers. The designs come from the developer's own designers, and it's intended for anyone bored of the stock look who wants a quick change without much setup. Icon themes change the look of your most-used apps, and the listing says swapping icons costs nothing. Widgets currently include time, date, calendar and photo, with more promised. The wallpaper library spans aesthetic, animal, glitter, nature and anime styles, in both still and live form, and it supports the lock screen wallpaper options that arrived with iOS 16. The app needs iOS 14 or later. Beyond icons, a subscription (weekly, monthly or annual) is required for unlimited access to everything else. The listing also refers to the app as Icon Dealer in one place.
Icons for nothing is the hook in ThemePack. The listing says swapping app icons costs nothing, which is unusual in a category where most apps gate everything behind a subscription. Beyond icons there are home screen widgets and a library of still and live wallpapers covering aesthetic, animal, glitter, nature and anime looks.
Everything is designed in-house according to the developer, HONGKONG BANANA AI LIMITED, and the app supports the iOS 16 lock screen options while running on iOS 14 or later. Widgets, wallpapers and the rest need a weekly, monthly or annual subscription.
First visit, you'll probably do the free thing: pick an icon set and change the apps you use most. That alone gives the phone a new look without spending anything. The widgets on offer are basic (time, date, calendar, photo) so subscribers mostly come back for wallpapers, scrolling through categories and picking a live one for the lock screen.
After the initial makeover, it's an app you open occasionally when the mood for a change hits, not a daily tool.
The free icons, once word gets round. Rival theming apps charge for icon packs, so an app that gives them away pulls in people who want a quick restyle without a subscription. The 100,000-plus ratings mean it also surfaces well in searches. Live wallpapers and lock screen support are the second reason.
Five screenshots are on the page, and the wallpaper categories named in the listing, glitter and anime among them, give a sense of a bright, youthful library rather than a restrained one. Since the artwork is produced by the developer's in-house team, there's likely a consistent house style across icon sets. Expect a gallery layout sorted by style, which is the norm in Art & Design theming apps.
A 4.7 rating from more than 100,000 reviews is the strongest showing among the theming apps in this batch, and version 3.0.9 suggests a recent third major release with a few patches since. The listing's stray reference to Icon Dealer hints at a rename or a sibling app, which is worth knowing. App Store only; the developer is HONGKONG BANANA AI LIMITED.
Free icon swaps
The listing says changing app icons costs nothing.
Live lock screen wallpapers
Still and animated backgrounds, with iOS 16 lock screen support.
Older iPhones
It runs on iOS 14 or later, which covers phones several years old.
Free to install, rated 4+, and the icons are stated to be free. Everything else requires a subscription offered weekly, monthly or annually, with no prices in the listing. Ads aren't mentioned. Icon installation on iPhone typically goes through Shortcuts, and the listing doesn't say otherwise. Requires iOS 14 or later. The naming inconsistency (ThemePack in one place, Icon Dealer in another) is cosmetic but worth noting. No Android version is linked.
Our take
If all you want is new icons, this is the one to try first, because the listing says that part is free and the rating is strong. Pay for the subscription only if the wallpaper library wins you over; the widget set is thin by comparison. People who want the full theme package with rich widgets should look at the heavier catalogues instead.