How to Change App Icon in Android for free

Android users have lots of features and customization facilities. Android user can easily change their app icons with icon changer apps, theme, launcher, and much more for free. In this guide, we will show you step by step process of how to change app icon in android for free.

There are lots of methods to change your app icon on android. We will show you all the different methods which is easy to follow and free.

Some apps will change only particular selected apps and some will change all app icon at once. We will show you both methods.

How to change app icon in android phone

You can change the app icon on the android phone by simply installing an app called X Icon Changer from the Google Play Store.

This app is very popular and used by lots of users to change app icons. It has 4.3 ratings and more than 10 million downloads.

This app will change one app icon at once and you can repeat this process if you want to change more app icons for free.

Here is the Step by Step process to follow

1. Open Google Play Store and download X Icon Changer

2. After installing open the app, and it will show you your installed apps.

3. Select any one app you want to change app icon and click on it.

4. Now It will show you to change app icon name, and below a different variety of app icons from the library, photos, or your device app icon.

5. If you want to change the app name then you can click the pencil icon and then you can rename it. If you only want to change the app icon then it will show below different app icons select any icon you want from the library section, photo, or apps section, and then at the top right corner Click on OK and you can see your changed app icon in your home screen.

How to remove watermark from the changed app Icon

If you want to remove the watermark from the changed app icon you can do that simply for free. On your Home Screen long press and it will show you a widget section simply open it and find X Icon Changer Widget and add it to your home screen and it will automatically open the X Icon Changer app from that you can select any app and change it without watermark.

Note: Apps icon changer has limitations it will change the app icon only on your home screen but not on your menu screen. But if you use a system theme it will change most of the icons on your home screen and in your menu screen and if you use a launcher then it will completely change all your icons at once on the home screen and as well as in the menu screen.

How to change icons on android without launcher

In every Android phone, there is a built-in theme application that comes with the android phone provided by the brand like Samsung provides Galaxy Themes, Xiaomi provides MIUI Theme app, etc.

We will show you using Samsung Galaxy Themes to change app icons without a launcher.

Here are the steps to change icons using galaxy themes

1. Go to Galaxy themes or you can also find it in your phone settings app called Themes simply open it.

2. Now Click on Top which is at the top right corner and then click on All drag-down button which will show you three options All, Paid, and Free.

3. Click on free and it will show you all the free themes available, you can also choose paid themes if you like the paid themes, but you have to pay for the paid theme. We will go for the free theme simply click on any free theme.

4. It will show you a download button, simply download it, and then it will show apply button. Click on Apply button to apply the theme and it will change your app icons.

Note: Using the system-provided theme will change only system default app icons and their appearance.

How do I change my android app icon with launcher

You can easily change the app icon with the launcher. There are lots of launcher apps available in the Google Play Store. Nova launcher is the most famous launcher for android to fully customize your android phone.

We will show you how you can change the app icon using Nova Launcher.

Here are the steps to using the nova launcher

1. Go to Google Play Store and download Nova Launcher

2. Now open nova launcher and go to look and feel.

3. Click on Icon Style and then click on Icon theme.

4. Now it will show a list of options to select icon packs like System pack and your downloaded icon packs, select any icon packs and it will change your icons.

After applying the theme you can change each app icon anytime if you want to, in your own style like you can create your own icon with your image or with other icon packs.

If nova launcher is applied as your main launcher. Then If you long press on any icon it will show three options Edit, App info, and Remove.

To change the icon or rename an icon or both, simply click on the Edit button it will allow you to rename the app, and to change the app icon click on the icon near rename option it will show you different of options to select your icon from your Gallery, Built-in icons, icon packs or get more themes from play store. Select the type of icon and it will change your icon.

If you don’t have your desired icon packs listed, then you can simply download them from Play Store and they will show in the nova launcher and you can follow the given above steps to change your icons.

Note: You can select anytime Nova Launcher as your default launcher to do more customization to your android phone.

How to set the app icon size in android

You can set the app icon size on your android phone from your home screen. Open the phone settings app on your device and Click on Home Screen then it will show you the option to set your Apps Icon size, now click on Apps Screen Grid and it will show you from small to large option, select the option you like and click on Save.

Then your app icon size will change. You can also set icon size using the nova launcher, if you don’t have a nova launcher you can install it from the google play store for free and open the nova launcher and then Click on the Folder section and then click on icon layout then it will show you the option to change app icon size by using slide if you move the slider to the left side it will decrease icon size and if you move to the right side it will increase the icon size, make sure that below the icon size Match Desktop Size option is unchecked to use this feature on your android device.

How do I change my app theme

In every android phone there is built in theme application. You can check these theme in your phone settings in theme section where you can apply new theme and it will also change app icon according to theme.