If you’re a fan of changing the look of your iPhone’s home screen, but don’t want to or can’t jailbreak it, tooliphone.net is a great webapp that lets you set icons of your own choice for your favorite apps.
It does this by creating webclips with URL schemes for apps instead of the usual http link, a technique we’ve covered here before. However, the web app packages the whole process into a neat tool called “iCustom,” not requiring a PC or Mac.
When you visit tooliphone.net on your iOS device, you’ll see a webpage telling you to choose either between a blank or a custom icon. Once you select “custom icon”, you choose which app icon you’d like to customise from a pre-defined list. One cool thing is that you can not only create icons for apps, but also make icons for actions like calling, texting or emailing.
You then proceed to enter the image, which can either be in the form of a URL (hard to extract from mobile Safari) or an image uploaded from your device, which sadly didn’t work for us. Once you’re done with all these steps, you’d finally be told to add the page as a bookmark on your homescreen. Since the icon is actually a bookmarklet, it’ll redirect you to the chosen app, and not straight out replace the icon like WinterBoard themes.
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