We’ve all seen those large, really nice looking, glossy app icons that iTunes displays. I personally have taken screen captures of these icons multiple times for use in blog posts and other advertising. It’s usually a pain because you have to bring the screen cap into photoshop and clean it up, trying not to mess up the nicely rounded corners of the icon. Well, no more! Xeleh has released his free OSX App for capturing and saving those beautiful shiny icons.
All you need to do is enter the iTunes link (or app id#) into the Icon Extractor, click Fetch and then save the pristine icon (.png) with transparency intact! It couldn’t get any easier.
You can get the latest version of AppStore Icon Extractor from the authors website. It’s tested and working on OSX Leopard.
Link doesn’t work, version 1 doesn’t work
New version 1.1 works!!
New link is
xeleh.posterous.com/appstore-icon-extractor
@nglayton Thanks for the new link, I updated the post!
Anyone have a backup of this app? The author appears to have removed all traces of this app (for unknown reasons).
The link seems to be gone again. Any possibility this could be made available again? I could totally use this.
I downloaded the app before it was removed. Here’s a copy of it:
http://www.shrinkrays.net/upload/AppstoreIconExtractor.app.zip
@Chris: Thank you!
Hey Guys! can you please re-upload the file. The link seems to be not working
Sorry, seems like the app is gone again. ;( most likely because Apple is constantly changing how they display/make available their resources. The developer probably got tired of trying to keep up. I’ll update the post if a new version is found.