The Breakroom

Triode: Duo for Youo

October 27, 2026

It’s been a little over a month since our last release of internet radio app, Triode, but we’ve been busy working on an update for the new iPhone Duo. We’re happy to announce that version 2.5 is available for download and should work great on Apple’s new device. One early observation we had was how […]

Pro Icons. Indie Prices.

July 28, 2026

Bringing an app to life is difficult. It’s a labor of love that’s the culmination of thousands of hours of hard work. A personal expression of yourself. After all that, your app’s icon might seem like a finishing touch, but it’s actually an important part of your software’s identity. It may just be one little square, […]

Thirty years ago this month, three friends working at a small multimedia company in Greensboro, NC, decided to post a few fun sets of Mac desktop icons on an AOL webpage. Little did we know what we were getting ourselves into back then, but here we are, incredibly, thirty years later. So much has changed […]

Apps Up for Sale

July 30, 2025

While the Iconfactory is hard at work on Tapestry, Linea Sketch, Wallaroo, and Tot, we also find ourselves at a crossroads: we have too many apps and not enough time to keep them all up-to-date. Our apps deserve more love than we can currently give. We’re looking to find new homes for our side products […]

Apple’s new Liquid Glass design that was announced at WWDC25 is more than just a fresh coat of paint—it’s a signal. One that points simultaneously to the future of digital interfaces and to the past. We’re calling it neo-retro.  Liquid Glass appears new and futuristic, yet somehow familiar—after all, the idea of translucent interface elements animating […]

Let’s Talk Tapestry

March 21, 2025

There’s a lot to be said about an app that you pour your heart and soul into for well over a year. For nearly as long, we’ve been making the rounds, chatting up our friends and peers about Tapestry and have been grateful for the chance to talk about our work. If you’ve missed any […]

Since Tapestry’s launch, customers have been enjoying the app’s ability to combine content from across the open web into a personal, chronological timeline. And Tapestry continues to get even better thanks to a bevy of useful connectors, created by talented third party developers.  Connectors retrieve the content that gets woven into your Tapestry timeline. The […]

Announcing Linea Sketch 4.3

November 7, 2023

The latest update to Linea Sketch is now available! From textures to thumbnail cropping, version 4.3 is packed with clever new features to make sketching on your iPad easier and more fun than ever. Textures Have Never Been Easier We’ve created a variety of pre-defined seamless textures to let you quickly add visual interest and […]

We took some time to chat with the nice folks over at HostingAdvice about all things Iconfactory: from our history, to our current projects, to what the future might hold. HostingAdvice serves up a daily helping of technology news, product reviews, and profiles the movers & shakers of our industry. Many of our long-time fans and […]

Announcing Linea Sketch 4.2

January 24, 2023

Today’s Linea update brings several new and exciting features designed to give you more options while sketching and when moving images into and out of the app. Version 4.2 also includes a bevy of improvements that reduce friction when transforming artwork, provide new and updated templates, and much more.  The Nitty Gritty Linea’s new Organic […]