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Agreed. We’re planning to revise in the next year or so. At the moment we wanted the brand recognition so that existing customers who are looking to use the Mac version know and trust that this is the same product. Modernising the icon can come in a subsequent update. Cheers!

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Honestly literally any other icon would be better, and that’s something you should do today (not later). I understand that you think brand recognition is really important, but the current logo screams “I’m a Windows application ported over!”

You will just sell more copies, straight up, if you change the logo.

I'm not sure I agree with you, in that the recognition is more important than the new icon here. I think, if you keep the name the same, I'd swap out the icon faster to have some eye caught new customers instead. But that's a hard decision to make, I can completely understand your argument.

Agree with the other commenter. Change out that icon ASAP. I definitely wouldn't click on that if I hadn't seen this on HN. The existing is actually blurry on retina/hidpi screens.

Personally (given the name of the tool) I recommend something turtle themed.

Lol, love the turtle idea.

Since the App Store shows icons at a large size, it's blurry on non-retina screens too:

https://i.imgur.com/kJiaHwM.png

Seeing that icon, I would assume the quality of app I'm getting is not the quality I expect for $30.

Per Apple's documentation, you need icon sizes up to 1024x1024. This represents a 512x512 size at 2x DPI.

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

At the very least for the short term you could hire someone at an online freelancing site to trace the existing icon into vectors and make larger versions of it.

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