Christmas Icon Pack

Review by eFreeware

If you like the idea of your home screen matching the season, Christmas Icon Pack is the sort of thing you'd install in late November and keep until the decorations come down. It comes from Marcos Soft and does one job: replacing your existing app icons with Christmas-themed artwork.

What you get is a large library of icons that can be applied in one click rather than one at a time. That single-tap approach is the part that appeals to me most, because the usual friction with icon packs is the fiddly setup. Here the developer keeps the promise simple: pick the pack, apply it, and your launcher shows festive icons instead of the standard ones.

It's a paid app at 99 cents, with no ads and no in-app purchases, so there's nothing to unlock after you buy it. For a seasonal purchase that's a reasonable shape: you pay once, use it for a few weeks, and decide later whether it earns a permanent place on your phone.

Who tends to want a seasonal icon set

This is for people who treat their home screen as part of the holiday decoration. If you already change your wallpaper each December, this keeps the theme consistent across your apps.

It also suits anyone who wants the festive look without assembling it themselves. Collecting individual icons and assigning them app by app takes time; the developer's pitch here is that the whole set arrives at once, which is the difference between a five-minute job and an evening of fiddling.

I'd expect it to appeal to casual users more than tinkerers. If you enjoy building a theme piece by piece, this probably isn't the tool for that. It's for the person who wants the result, not the process.

What the pack actually changes

The core feature is the icon library itself. The developer describes thousands of icons in the pack, which is a lot of ground to cover for a seasonal theme. The icons are Christmas-themed, so the palette and imagery follow the holiday rather than a neutral design language.

Applying them takes a single click. That's the more important half of the pitch: an icon pack is only as good as the effort it takes to switch on.

The app was released in November 2017 and last updated in September 2026, with recent notes covering bug fixes and performance improvements. That fits a product with a narrow job. The content rating is Everyone.

The 99-cent question

Christmas Icon Pack costs $0.99 up front. There are no ads in it and no in-app purchases, so the price you see is the price you pay, and nothing inside the app asks for more money later. That's a clean arrangement for a paid app.

Whether a dollar is worth it depends on how much you care about the seasonal look. If you change wallpapers for the holidays anyway, a one-time payment is easy to justify.

The install base is modest, at over 500 installs, with a 4.3 rating from 17 ratings, so I'd treat those as a rough signal. The price is a single one-time cost.

Alternatives worth weighing

The obvious comparison is a general-purpose icon pack that covers the whole year rather than one holiday. They don't become irrelevant in January. If you want one icon set for all twelve months, a year-round pack is the more economical route.

A second option is simply changing your wallpaper and leaving the icons alone. That's free, and for many people it's enough. The reason to consider this app instead is consistency: wallpaper alone doesn't change the icons on top of it.

There are also broader launcher themes that bundle icons, wallpapers and widgets together. Those can produce a more complete look. Christmas Icon Pack keeps to one narrow job, which is either its appeal or its limitation depending on what you're after.

A small seasonal purchase with a clear job

Christmas Icon Pack does one thing and charges a dollar for it. The library is large, the application is a single click, and there's nothing to buy afterward. For someone who decorates their phone for the holidays, that's a tidy, low-risk purchase that fits neatly into a December routine.

My recommendation is for people who already enjoy seasonal touches on their home screen and want the icons to match the wallpaper without doing the work manually. If you prefer a theme that stays useful all year, a general icon pack will serve you better.

What's new in version 2.1.0

Bug fixes and performance improvements.