Animated, and sent as a file
Every icon in the catalogue is an animation — WEBP for the app, GIF for the messengers that want one. Sharing hands the chat an actual file, so whoever receives it does not need iConify to see it move.
Android app, free to install
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iConify is a catalogue of animated icons that live on your phone. Find one by name, tag or category, keep the ones you use, group them into collections, add your own from a link — and send any of them to a chat in two taps.
Free to install. Android 8.0 and newer.
Blip Reactions: sixteen animations drawn for iConify, not taken from a ready-made set.
Why a separate app
Your keyboard already has emoji. It does not have these, and it does not let you keep your own.
Yours, not a feed
Favourites, collections, recents and your own icons are rows in a database on your phone. There is no account to create, no profile to fill in and nothing to follow: the app has no server that stores anything about you.
Bring your own
Any WEBP or GIF on the web becomes an icon in your catalogue: paste the link, give it a name, pick a category. It sits next to the built-in ones and behaves exactly like them — favourite it, collect it, share it.
One sheet holds the whole search
Search matches the name, the aliases and the tags, so happy finds the grinning face even though the file is not called that.
The rest of the sheet narrows the same list rather than opening another screen: category, where the icon came from, an editorial shelf, and the order. Apply closes it, Reset all clears it, and the button above the grid keeps showing what you asked for.
- Six categories: Emotions, Gestures, Events, Fun, Objects and Other.
- Filter by source — built-in, your own, or only favourites — and by any collection you have made.
- Editorial shelves: Featured, New and Seasonal.
- Sort by name A–Z or Z–A, by newest, or by what you opened last.
Two catalogues, one grid
What ships with the app, and what you put there yourself.
What ships
More than 130 animated icons
- Two tabs: Smiles, and Others for everything that is not a face.
- Sixteen of them are Blip Reactions — the app's own character, drawn for iConify rather than taken from a ready-made set.
- Every icon carries aliases and tags, which is what lets search find it by a word you would actually type.
- The catalogue updates itself from the content server. A copy travels inside the app, so a first launch without a connection still shows a full grid.
What you add
Your own icons and collections
- Add by URL to a WEBP or GIF, or import an image file from the phone. The app checks the link and loads the image before it saves anything.
- Collections are folders you name yourself. One icon can be in several of them, and a collection can be applied to the grid as a filter.
- Deleting a collection keeps the icons in the catalogue; deleting an icon you added removes it from the device.
- Export the library — your icons and your collections — to a JSON file, and merge it back on another phone.
From grid to chat
Four taps for the first one, two for the next.
Find it
Type a word into the search sheet, switch between the Smiles and Others tabs, or scroll the grid. What you opened last sits in the Recent row above it, so the ones you use are not something you have to search for.
Open it
The icon fills the screen and plays. The heart in the top bar keeps it, the thumbs rate it, and the share button is the width of the screen.
Share it
The system share sheet opens with the animation attached as a file, and a link that opens the same icon on the web for whoever does not have the app.
Do it again
The icon moves to the front of Recent, so the second time it is already on the first screen.
Two packs, the same sixteen
Blip Reactions is not only a shelf in the catalogue: the same sixteen animations are a sticker pack too. It exists in two places, and the two work differently.
In WhatsApp
Installed from the app's Settings — about six megabytes, downloaded when you ask for it. iConify has to be on the phone: the app is what hands the pack to WhatsApp.
In Telegram
Sixteen video stickers, free. Telegram adds them from a link and keeps them itself, so iConify does not have to be there at all.
The link opens t.me, which is Telegram's own site. The pack is not downloaded from this page.
The app, screen by screen
Tap any frame to open it.
What it deliberately does not do
A catalogue app is usually assumed to be a network of people. This one is not, and the difference is worth saying out loud rather than leaving to be discovered.
- No account and no profile, because there is no server that keeps anything about you.
- Your votes stay on the phone. They are not sent anywhere and nobody else sees them — the only thing they do is weigh which icon the app offers you as the icon of the day.
- There is no chart, no leaderboard and no counter showing what other people opened. Nothing in the app compares you to anyone.
- No cloud backup of its own. Moving a library to another phone is an export and an import, and you do both yourself.
- One Google AdMob banner, and nothing you can buy to remove it.
What each of those means for your data is set out in the privacy policy.
Free to install. Android 8.0 and newer.
Free, and nothing to sign up for
Android 8.0 and newer.
Free to install. Android 8.0 and newer.
