AI Just Made My App Icon (Better than a Designer)

App icons used to mean hiring a designer or fighting with design tools for hours. Now I generate mine from the terminal in minutes with SnapAI, a free CLI tool I built on OpenAI's image models. In the video I go from a text prompt to a finished icon and splash screen running on an emulator.

You don't need design skills, just a good prompt and the workflow I show.

What's inside

• Generate transparent PNG icons from one terminal command
• Write prompts that actually produce good icons (mine: "glass-like charts, semi-transparent layers")
• Prep adaptive icons for Android with my Expo Figma template
• Package Apple's new icon format with Icon Composer, backward compatible with older iOS
• Wire up splash screens with separate light and dark backgrounds
• Preview everything with npx expo prebuild and run:android

Resources

ToolSnapAI

AI icon generation for React Native and Expo apps, straight from your terminal.