App icons for vibe coders

The icon is what people judge first

Everything else about a vibe-coded app can be fixed by iterating: layout, spacing, copy, the empty states. The icon cannot, because it is the only part of the product a person sees before deciding whether to open it — one 60-pixel square on a home screen, next to apps that had a design team.

It is also the asset with the least tolerance for a near-miss. A screen that is slightly off reads as a young product. An icon that is slightly off reads as a placeholder, and a placeholder reads as abandoned.

What actually works at 60 pixels

One subject, not a scene. No lettering — the App Store review guidelines are unimpressed by it and nobody can read it anyway. Enough contrast that the shape survives a dark home screen and a light one. Detail that disappears below 128 pixels is detail that only exists in the file you are looking at, not in the one your users see.

Every icon here is chosen against those constraints before it is published, and each product page shows it on a real phone home screen at real size, so you can check the thing that matters instead of admiring the render.

Pick one and go back to shipping

$49, one payment, instant download. The archive is what the App Store and Google Play ask for, at the exact pixel sizes, with the licence in the folder. No brief, no revision round, no fifty attempts that all look slightly different.