# A suggestion for the app icon

**URL:** <https://discourse.netnewswire.com/t/a-suggestion-for-the-app-icon/379>\
**Category:** App\
**Created:** [September 11, 2026, 5:02pm UTC](https://discourse.netnewswire.com/t/a-suggestion-for-the-app-icon/379 "2026-09-11T17:02:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![GuCB](https://discourse.netnewswire.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@GuCB](https://discourse.netnewswire.com/u/GuCB)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2026, 5:02pm UTC](https://discourse.netnewswire.com/t/a-suggestion-for-the-app-icon/379/1 "2026-09-11T17:02:42Z")

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Hi everyone,

First of all, I just wanted to say that I really love NetNewsWire. It’s a fantastic app — simple, fast, reliable, and exactly what I want from an RSS reader. I genuinely enjoy using it.

There is just one small aspect of the app that I’ve never been particularly fond of: the current icon. Of course, design is very subjective, but personally I feel the icon doesn’t quite reflect how polished and modern the rest of the app feels.

So, purely as a friendly suggestion, I created an alternative icon concept and wanted to share it here with the community and the developers.

I tried to keep it clean, recognizable, and very much in line with the visual language of iOS, while still making it immediately clear that NetNewsWire is a news/RSS app.

**Here’s the icon I came up with:**

 ![image](https://discourse.netnewswire.com/uploads/default/original/1X/6952c97c5c1d04be6780744a46b75a5084296994.jpeg)

I completely understand that branding decisions involve much more than personal preference, and I don’t mean this as criticism of the work that has already gone into the app. I simply thought it could be an interesting option for a future redesign — or perhaps even as an alternative app icon.

Thanks to everyone involved in NetNewsWire for making such a great app.

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**Author:** ![brent](https://discourse.netnewswire.com/user_avatar/discourse.netnewswire.com/brent/32/7_2.png) [@brent](https://discourse.netnewswire.com/u/brent)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2026, 9:20pm UTC](https://discourse.netnewswire.com/t/a-suggestion-for-the-app-icon/379/2 "2026-09-17T21:20:39Z")

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Nice app icon — good work! We don’t intend to make any changes to our current app icon, but this is indeed very nicely done.

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**Author:** ![wklj](https://discourse.netnewswire.com/user_avatar/discourse.netnewswire.com/wklj/32/134_2.png) [@wklj](https://discourse.netnewswire.com/u/wklj)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2026, 7:46pm UTC](https://discourse.netnewswire.com/t/a-suggestion-for-the-app-icon/379/3 "2026-09-24T19:46:14Z")

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NetNewsWire has had some variant of a satellite icon since I started using it (in 2003?) and it’s a very distinctive part of the brand. This icon, while nice, looks pretty similar to about 500 RSS readers I’ve seen in the App Store, and it’d be losing a lot.

So I really like the NNW icon! I just wish it got Liquid Glass support so it properly supported tinted and dark modes!