Alternatives to Candy Bar

itsallaboutyou · 3 Jan 2008 at 15:53

Afternoon all,

I'm fully aware that most people on here will advocate Panic's Candy Bar application and it looks fantastic - especially for £15 approx. But I'd be interested to hear of any free alternatives.

I'm not aware of any - but as you might know I'm pretty new to the mac community...

I'd like to change around icons etc...

If Candy Bar is the best thing for the job then I'll get it!

I assume I can download a trial and then purchase?

Tom*

J1234 · 3 Jan 2008 at 16:06

Candy Bar is the way to go.

You can download the free version, which isn't a trial, but I don't know what you are missing without buying it as I've always used the free one and had no problems.

But yeah, download it here.

itsallaboutyou · 3 Jan 2008 at 16:17

Thanking you!

I'll have a proper play when I get in from work - I assume the best sites to use are the ones mentioned in the perpetual post your desktop thread?

Cheers,

Tom*

electric ant · 3 Jan 2008 at 16:21

The free CandyBar 3 trial is limited to 15 days and 250 icons.
however it is the best at what it does..

For a free alternative that works pretty well for me, try Liteicon

J1234 · 3 Jan 2008 at 16:21

Yup, Interfacelift.

J1234 · 3 Jan 2008 at 16:22

electric ant said:
The free CandyBar 3 trial is limited to 15 days and 250 icons.
however it is the best at what it does..

Ahh, didn't know that, mine hasn't run out though..

itsallaboutyou · 3 Jan 2008 at 16:24

Cheers peeps, I'll check it out...

I'll try my luck with the candybar trial and see what happens!

Tom*

electric ant · 3 Jan 2008 at 16:26

Also check out the IconFactory

Has many awesome icon sets, my personal faves are Amora and Agua

itsallaboutyou · 3 Jan 2008 at 16:28

Ah - thats the other one that I couldnt remember!

Ta la

Sic · 4 Jan 2008 at 07:13

and try pixelgirlpresents - that's normally got quite a few good ones

itsallaboutyou · 4 Jan 2008 at 08:21

Sic said:
and try pixelgirlpresents - that's normally got quite a few good ones

Whah.. thats well weird! I was nosing about on google this morning on the train...then bus.. then train and found this site!

Its really good - lots of nice bits n pieces..

Slightly O/T - I had no idea what an icontainer was - what a brill idea!

Tom*