The Breakroom

In June we celebrated our silver pixel anniversary, 25 years of serving clients, creating software, and pushing pixels just for you. As part of that celebration we’ve been offering discounts on some of our apps. We’re happy to announce that our helpful screen measurement tool, xScope, is up next! For the next two weeks, today […]

Making Music for Robots

June 28, 2021

Frenzic: Overtime is the fast-paced sequel to the original game which first debuted thirteen years ago. Everything about this new title has been propelled far beyond the original – including the soundtrack music which is streaming now on Apple Music and Spotify. When I created the original music for Frenzic, I’d been a casual GarageBand […]

Twenty five years ago this week, Talos, Corey, and I first pushed pixels into icons of our favorite Star Wars, Star Trek, and cartoon characters and published them under the name Iconfactory (Icnfactory, actually). So much has happened since then, both with the company and the world in which we live, that it would be […]

DoBots, Assemble!

June 18, 2021

Today’s the day! The long-awaited sequel to Frenzic, one of the App Store’s first hit games, is now available on Apple Arcade. Frenzic: Overtime combines fast-paced and engaging play with stunning visuals and sound in an arcade-style puzzler for players of all ages. Creating this game has been a labor of love for all of us here […]

Today’s update of Twitterrific for iOS modernizes menus, tweaks navigation structure, and improves some long-standing design limitations. All of the changes in this release are free and geared to make Twitterrific even easier to use. Main navigation has moved from the top to the bottom on both the iPhone and iPad screens. There are many […]

Family Sharing Is A Go!

December 9, 2020

Ever since Apple announced last June that family sharing would be extended to include subscriptions and in-app purchases, we’ve been anxiously awaiting its availability. Today, we’re pleased to announce that family sharing of subscriptions and in-app purchases has been enabled in Triode, Twitterrific and Linea Sketch. This means that if you subscribe to any the […]

Linea Sketch + Inktober = BFF

September 25, 2020

October is our favorite month of the year. A time when the air starts to chill, we bust out our comfy sweatshirts and turn our eyes towards our favorite holiday, Halloween. It also marks the month-long celebration of Inktober which encourages artists, both amateur and professionals alike, to pick up pen and pencil and express […]

WhatsApp Emoji Suite

July 15, 2020

The Iconfactory has been working hand-in-hand with the talented team at WhatsApp since 2017 to craft thousands of expressive icons in the form of custom emoji for their popular mobile messaging application. The project has involved the design, refinement and production of over 3,000 unique emoji spanning Unicode 10, 11, 12 and the recently announced entries […]

Introducing Fontcase

June 12, 2020

I’m pretty sure this is the first time we’re announcing a new product that isn’t version 1.0. I’m absolutely sure this is the first time that we’re announcing a release that isn’t our own app. Let me explain. It all began with our simple text companion, Tot. Everyone wanted to use custom fonts for their […]

Toys for Tot

May 28, 2020

We’re happy to announce a new version of Tot with some features frequently requested by the app’s legion of fans. The main focus of today’s release are system extensions that allow Tot to co-exist with other apps. To this end, we’ve added a Sharing extension for both iOS and macOS. Additionally, there’s also a widget […]