Badgy is a command line tool that creates variants of your icon by adding badge overlays.
- ✅ Small (square) and long (rectangular) labels
- ✅ Position it on
top, left, bottom, right, topLeft, topRight, bottomLeft, bottomRight, center - ✅ Supports rotation (long badge only)
- ✅ Converts your icon to different sizes already
- ✅ 🚀 Ability to automatically replace your
.appiconasset, mainting the same name and sizes
This tool is NOT meant to create production ready icons. As I see myself constantly using at least 4 variants of the same application for B2B customers (think of 1 environment for DEV, QA, UAT, PROD and more), I quickly created this tool to differentiate the application icon for those variants.
There are many things that might not work as you expect, and there are many others that you wish this could do. Feel free to contribute to the project and make it better.
This tool depends on ImageMagick. If not installed with brew make sure to install this dependency yourself:
brew install imagemagickbrew tap arthurpalves/formulae
brew install badgymint install arthurpalves/badgygit clone https://github.com/arthurpalves/badgy.git
cd badgy
make installgit clone https://github.com/arthurpalves/badgy.git
cd badgy
swift run badgyUsage: badgy <command> [options]
A command-line tool to add labels to your app icon
Commands:
small Add small square label to app icon
long Add rectangular label to app icon
help Prints help information
version Prints the current version of this appSmall is a square badge containing only 1 character.
Usage: badgy small <char> <icon> [options]
Add small square label to app icon
Options:
-c, --color <value> Specify badge color with a hexadecimal color code
-h, --help Show help information
-p, --position <value> Position on which to place the badge
-r, --replace Indicates Badgy should replace the input icon
-t, --tint-color <value> Specify badge text/tint color with a hexadecimal color code
-v, --verbose Log tech details for nerdsbadgy small A ~/MyIcon.png --position topRight
Long is a rectangular badge containing up to 4 characters.
Usage: badgy long <labelText> <icon> [options]
Add rectangular label to app icon
Options:
-a, --angle <value> Rotation angle of the badge
-c, --color <value> Specify badge color with a hexadecimal color code
-h, --help Show help information
-p, --position <value> Position on which to place the badge
-r, --replace Indicates Badgy should replace the input icon
-t, --tint-color <value> Specify badge text/tint color with a hexadecimal color code
-v, --verbose Log tech details for nerdsbadgy long BETA ~/MyIcon.png --angle 15 --position bottom
You can change the badge color and the tint/text color with -c, --color and -t, -tint-color.
If not specified, as in the examples above, the badge color is randomly selected while the tint color is always white.
badgy long TEST ~/MyIcon.png --angle 15 --position bottom --color '#FFD700' --tint-color '#8B7500'
The acceptable formats for your input icon are: .png, .jpg and .appiconasset.
If the later is used, Badgy will find the largest image available in the asset to serve as input.
Replace is a flag that you can use alongside your .appiconasset input, it will iterate over all images available in the asset and convert the largest icon to the respective size, this allows Badgy to maintain the same amount of files, same names and same sizes.
✅ Perfect for any icon set -> iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, macOS
badgy long TEST MyProjectSource/Assets.xcassets/AppIcon.appiconasset --angle 15 --position bottom --replaceBadgy is released under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.