The Breakroom

We’re pleased to announce that Linea, our elegant digital sketchbook, has been updated to version 1.1 and offers a range of new features including support for Apple’s iCloud. After launching the new version, Linea presents you with the option of enabling iCloud for your drawings. When enabled, sketches and projects become available across all of […]

Today we’re pleased to announce an important update to Linea, our new simplified sketching application for the iPad. Version 1.0.2 adds several awesome new features, chief among them is tilt support for the Apple Pencil while drawing with any of the tools, including the eraser. By tilting the pencil towards the drawing surface, you can […]

Over the past few years the popularity of emoji has steadily grown. Heck, you can even send your sweetheart a kissy face emoji pillow as a gift! Over a year ago, we were pleased to be able to contribute to the ever-growing popularity of emoji as we helped Twitter design and develop their own unique […]

A Clicker for your Ticker

October 13, 2015

It’s well documented that I love my Apple Watch and use it daily to keep track of my activity. While the built-in apps do a fantastic job of keeping track of your health, I wanted something different. One of the things I noticed early on was how a simple number like “Longest Move Streak” could […]

The visual iconography in 1979’s ‘Alien’ proves that simply, elegant visual approaches are about as timeless as any designer can hope for. Rob Cobb’s work in the film feels right at home in iOS 7.

Slab

July 10, 2012

Slab is a new icon style from Iconfactory designer Corey Marion. His original intent for this set was simply to extend the popular Smoothicon collection with all of the latest Apple hardware but somewhere along the line it evolved into something more precise and more technical. Inspired by the BeOS icons from the 1990’s, Slab […]

Announcing iPulse 2.5

April 20, 2012

We’re pleased to announce an update to iPulse, our popular Mac OS X monitoring utility. iPulse 2.5 is now optimized for 64-bit processes and is designed to work much more smoothly on recent OS X releases. It also adds several improvements like displaying CPU and disk information, automatic updates via Sparkle and updated icons. This […]

We’re pleased to announce that Twitterrific 4.1 for the Mac is now available via the Mac App Store. This update follows v4.1 recently released for iOS and includes several new feature additions, usability improvements and important bug fixes. Some of the notable highlights in Twitterrific 4.1 include: Username auto-completion when composing a tweet Improved font […]

Year In Review for 2010

December 30, 2010

So much happens around these parts it’s difficult to keep track of it all. But since 2010 is about to fade into history, it’s time once again to highlight what we were up to these last 12 months. This year saw exciting developments at the Iconfactory, and as is par for the course, most of […]

What are you doing?

March 23, 2010

Corey Marion is updating his Smoothicon series after checking in at the Iconfactory. This new addition to the series includes some favorites for sharing your photos and video, publishing your prose and letting friends know where you are and what you are doing. Don’t hang around, grab this latest Smoothicons set for Mac, Windows or […]