u/ApprehensiveFill5722 — reddlx

I’ve been thinking about this lately… do app icons actually matter that much to users?

As someone who downloads a lot of apps, I realized I almost never choose based on the icon. When I’m searching, I’m looking at the name, screenshots and what the app actually does.

The icon is just… there.

There are apps with amazing, polished icons that I’ve ignored, and others with pretty average ones that I use every day. Once the app is installed, I barely even notice the icon anymore — it just becomes muscle memory.

I get that from a branding perspective it matters, and maybe it helps with first impressions, but I feel like designers (and founders) sometimes overestimate how much weight users actually put on it.