Icon MosaicYour iPhone’s Home Screen, rearranged on your Mac or PC.
Icon Mosaic shows your iPhone’s Home Screen on your Mac or Windows PC, with your own wallpaper and every page close at hand. Give it a theme with matching icons and a wallpaper, drag apps anywhere with your mouse, sort them into a rainbow, make folders, and send it all back to your phone in one step.
No jailbreak, and nothing to install on your iPhone. Free to download and try. For macOS 12 or later, on Apple silicon and Intel Macs, and there is a version for Windows in the Microsoft Store. Tested with iPhones running iOS 27, the current version of iOS. After it downloads, here is how to install it.
No jailbreak, and nothing to install on your iPhone. Free to get and try from the Microsoft Store. For Windows 10 and Windows 11, on PCs with an Intel or AMD processor, and it connects to your iPhone through Apple Devices, Apple’s free app from the Microsoft Store. Tested with iPhones running iOS 27, the current version of iOS. Here is how to get started.
A whole new look, in a few calm steps.
Make It Beautiful gives your first page a theme: one of twenty-four looks, from Moonlight to Mountain Lake, with matching icons and a wallpaper. Or choose Apple’s own dark, clear and tinted looks, which keep every badge, or bring an icon pack you bought, from Etsy or wherever you shop, as a folder or a .zip. Setting up a pack by hand takes hundreds of taps, one shortcut at a time; Icon Mosaic puts every icon on its app in a few clicks. Then make it yours, with your own photo, any icon you like and the names in the style you choose. For iPhones with iOS 18 or later.
Sage
Moonlight
Blush Beach
Latte
A rainbow Home Screen, in seconds.
Icon Mosaic is an app color organizer for your whole Home Screen. It looks at the artwork of every icon, works out the color you would call it, and lines your apps up as a rainbow across every page, a rainbow on each page, a color for each page, or a folder for each color.
Everything you would do with your thumb, only much easier.
Rearranging a Home Screen on the phone means holding an icon, waiting for everything to jiggle, and dragging it to the edge of the screen until the page finally turns. Icon Mosaic gives you a proper editor instead.
Every page, right beside you.
The pages before and after stand beside the phone, and All Pages lays them all out at once. Drag an app from your first page to your fifth in one move, or press Select Apps and carry a whole group.
How to rearrange apps on a Mac ›
Find any app.
Type part of a name, and Icon Mosaic shows every place it is, even inside a folder.
Hidden Apps.
Keep the apps you rarely use off your Home Screen, and find Apple apps you may not have noticed.
How to hide apps ›
Folders, made for you.
Hold one app over another to make a folder, just like on your iPhone. Or let Icon Mosaic group your apps by App Store category, or describe what you would like, such as “Work, Money, Travel and Kids folders,” and check every folder before anything changes.
How to make folders ›
See every change before it happens.
Nothing changes on your iPhone until you press Apply to iPhone. You see which apps are moving, a backup of your layout is saved first, and Undo goes back 60 steps.
Websites and the people you love.
Add icons that call, text or FaceTime someone, with their picture, and icons that open a website.
Empty spaces, and patterns.
Leave rows and spots empty, or have Tidy Up lay your apps out with the top row clear, in every other spot, or as a heart, a smile or a number. On iOS 18 and later, your iPhone keeps the spaces just where you put them.
Make it yours.
Change the wallpaper, give any app a different icon, and style the names under your icons, in any look you choose. Icon Mosaic tells you which apps would lose their badges, and keeps them as they are if you like.
How to change your app icons ›
Switching from Android?
Bring your Home Screen with you.
Apple’s Move to iOS app brings over your contacts and photos, but not your Home Screen. Icon Mosaic does that part.
Connect your Android phone with a cable or over Wi-Fi, and Icon Mosaic reads its Home Screen and lays out the same apps on your iPhone, on the same pages and in the same order, with your folders and your dock. It finds the iPhone version of each app, and your websites and favorite people come over as iPhone icons. Nothing on your Android phone is changed. It works with Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy phones.
Try it right here.
This is a pretend Home Screen. Press a button to watch it sort itself into a rainbow, gather apps into folders, or get messy again, the way Icon Mosaic does with your real one.
Press a button to see what Icon Mosaic can do.
Connecting your iPhone takes about a minute.
You do not need to jailbreak your phone or install anything on it. Icon Mosaic talks to your iPhone the same way Finder on a Mac, or Apple Devices on Windows, does when it backs up your phone. On Windows, install Apple Devices from the Microsoft Store and open it once before you start.
Plug in your iPhone.
Use the same cable you charge it with. After the first time, you can also connect over Wi-Fi if you turn on “Show this iPhone when on Wi-Fi” in Finder on a Mac, or in Apple Devices on Windows.
Unlock your phone.
Your iPhone will not share its Home Screen with a computer while it is locked, so unlock it and keep it on the Home Screen for a moment.
Tap Trust.
If your phone asks whether to trust this computer, tap Trust and enter your passcode. Icon Mosaic then opens with your Home Screen ready to edit. Not connecting?
Try it for free. Pay once when your new layout is ready.
There is no subscription. Icon Mosaic is free to download, and everything works without a license except the steps that change your iPhone and organizing in your own words, so you know it works with your iPhone before you spend anything.
Free
Download Icon Mosaic, connect your iPhone, and rearrange your Home Screen on your computer as much as you like. Sort by color or from A to Z, make folders by category, choose which apps to keep in Hidden Apps, search, undo, and save layouts to come back to. You can also see exactly what would change on your phone.
License
A license puts your new layout on your iPhone. It also lets you delete apps from your iPhone, add custom icons and website and contact icons, and make folders by describing what you want in your own words. One license works on up to three of your own computers, whether they are Macs or Windows PCs, and it includes every update to version 1.
Buy a LicenseHow to enter your license key
After you pay, your license key is shown on the screen, and we email you a copy as well.
Open Icon Mosaic, click License, the key at the top right of the window, paste your key into the box, and then click Activate. Lost your key? We will email it to you again.
Moving to a new computer
One license works on up to three computers at the same time, whether they are Macs, Windows PCs, or some of each. To move it, open Icon Mosaic on your old computer, click License, and click Release this computer. Then enter your key on the new computer and click Activate.
If all three seats are in use, Icon Mosaic lists the computers your license is on, so you can release the old one right there. More about licenses and refunds.
Questions people ask
Do I need to jailbreak my iPhone?
No. Icon Mosaic works with an ordinary iPhone, just as it comes from Apple, running the latest version of iOS. There is no jailbreak and nothing to install on your iPhone. It connects over the same cable you charge it with, the same way Finder on a Mac or Apple Devices on Windows does when it backs up your iPhone, and your iPhone asks you to trust your computer before anything happens. Nothing about how your iPhone works changes, other than where your icons are.
Could this break my iPhone?
Icon Mosaic changes where your icons, folders and widgets sit on your Home Screen. It deletes an app only when you ask it to and confirm, and it adds website and contact icons only after you approve them in Settings on your iPhone. It does not touch your photos, messages or settings. Before every change to your layout it saves a backup of the layout you had, and you can put that backup back on your phone at any time from the Layouts & Backups window. A deleted app cannot come back from a backup, which is why Icon Mosaic asks first.
Can it organize my iPhone apps by color?
Yes. Click Tidy Up, choose By Color, and Icon Mosaic sorts every app into a rainbow, using the color you would call each icon: one rainbow across your pages, a rainbow on every page, a color for each page, or a folder for each color. You pick the order of the colors. Our guide to organizing apps by color shows every layout.
Can I copy my Android Home Screen to my new iPhone?
Yes, if it is a Google Pixel or Samsung Galaxy phone, or another Android phone like them. Icon Mosaic reads the Android phone over a USB cable or over Wi-Fi and lays out the same apps, folders, websites and favorite contacts on your iPhone, in the same order. Our guide to moving your Android Home Screen to an iPhone explains it step by step.
Can I give my apps custom icons?
Yes, on an iPhone with iOS 18 or later. Choose a theme, use an icon pack you bought, or pick your own pictures, and Icon Mosaic makes each new icon through Apple’s Shortcuts app, so it opens its app straight away. Custom icons do not show notification badges, such as the red count of unread messages, so Icon Mosaic tells you which apps would lose theirs and can keep them as they are. See how to change your app icons and how they get to your iPhone.
Can it hide apps so they only live in the App Library?
Yes. Drag an app, a folder or a whole selection onto Hidden Apps, and when you apply your changes, those apps leave your Home Screen. They stay on your iPhone, ready in the App Library and in Search. To bring one back, open Hidden Apps and drag it onto a page.
Why is it not on the App Store?
On a Mac, apps from the Mac App Store are not allowed to talk to an iPhone over the cable in the way Icon Mosaic needs to. Icon Mosaic is signed and checked by Apple through its notarization service, so it opens like any other Mac app you download from the web. On Windows, Icon Mosaic is in the Microsoft Store.
What information leaves my computer?
Your Home Screen layout stays on your computer. To group apps by category, Icon Mosaic looks up app names in Apple’s public App Store directory. If you use the feature where you describe the folders you want, what you wrote, the names and categories of the apps involved, and the names of your folders with some of the apps in them, are sent to our server to work out the suggestion, and they are not stored. When you bring over an Android Home Screen, the names of apps Icon Mosaic cannot match by itself (with their app IDs, when it knows them), and the names of the apps on your iPhone to match them with, are sent the same way. If you add website and contact icons, their names, web addresses or phone numbers, and pictures are sent to our server to be signed, and they are not stored either. On Windows, and on a Mac that is not signed in to iCloud, icons made with Shortcuts, such as new pictures for your apps and icons that call or message someone, are made by our signing service. The details it needs, including names, phone numbers and pictures, are sent to it encrypted, and they are deleted soon after your iPhone downloads the icons. You can read the details in our privacy policy.
What happens when Apple updates iOS?
We test every new version of iOS as it comes out, and if Icon Mosaic needs a change to keep working, we release an update. On a Mac, the app tells you when a new version is ready, and on Windows the Microsoft Store brings it to you. If it stops working within 30 days of buying and we can't fix it, we'll refund you.
Is there a version for Windows or iPad?
Yes, for Windows. You can get Icon Mosaic from the Microsoft Store, and it works the same way as the Mac version. It needs a PC with an Intel or AMD processor, and it connects to your iPhone through Apple Devices, Apple’s free app from the Microsoft Store, so install that and open it once before you start. One license works on both. There is no version for iPad yet.
Guides for a tidier Home Screen
Step by step, with pictures: how to do each job on the iPhone itself, and the quicker way on your Mac or PC.
