Brass is an icon theme and widget app built around the full home screen customization loop: custom app icons, home screen widgets, and matching wallpapers from a single library. Themed icon packs install via iOS Settings profiles, and the library organizes content into categories including Minimalist and Anime.
The widget editor supports live preview as you adjust backgrounds, fonts, and colors. Finding an icon set is straightforward; applying it requires going through the iOS Settings profile flow before anything appears on the home screen. That process introduces a one-second routing delay on every app launch, which App Store reviewers flag consistently as the main friction point. For visual inspiration on complete themed setups, the iPhoner home screens gallery has real setups built around apps like Brass.
Brass has accumulated 188K ratings, which reflects the size of the iOS home screen customization audience as much as anything about the app itself. Ad-loading failures that prevent icon downloads are the most common reviewer complaint, alongside the Settings profile friction. The scope of the library and the live widget editor give Brass more surface than a single-purpose icon app, which is either the draw or the friction depending on how deep you want to go.
The installation path hasn't changed since iOS 14 forced this Shortcuts workaround. If you can live with the one-second delay, Brass has the library to make it worth the friction.
