ayushap18/pokefolders

PokeFolders is a small Mac application that lets a user design custom folder icons in a style inspired by collectible-creature games, then either save the icon to a file or apply it directly to a real folder on the desktop. It runs only on macOS 13 or newer. The README is explicit that the project contains no official artwork or trademarks from any branded franchise; every theme it ships with is an original elemental design. The app builds each icon by combining a classic folder silhouette with an elemental color scheme, a badge, and optional effects like glow, shadow, gradient, texture, and text. Ten bundled styles are included, with names like capture orb, electric, fire, water, grass, psychic, dark ghost, fairy, gold, and pixel. The user can change base colors, tab color, badge type, badge position, corner radius, icon size, and transparency, and can save their settings as named presets in local JSON files. A preview pane shows the icon at 512 by 512 pixels alongside Finder-size thumbnails on light and dark backgrounds, so the user can check how the icon will look in real Finder windows before exporting. Drag and drop is supported: dropping an image into the preview turns that image into a custom badge or watermark. Export options cover the standard macOS sizes from 16 by 16 up to 1024 by 1024, written either as plain PNG files, a complete .iconset folder with the @2x retina variants, or a single .icns bundle. The .icns is produced through the iconutil tool that ships with macOS. The app can also pick a real folder using a native file picker and apply the generated icon to it through the NSWorkspace API. Under the hood the project uses SwiftUI for the main window, AppKit for native panels and folder application, and CoreGraphics with CoreText for the actual icon rendering. A small executable check target stands in for a unit test framework and exercises rendering, exports, and preset save and reload. The README notes that no open-source license has been chosen yet, so contributors should add one before sending pull requests.