Lifetime Mac
Design, graphics & illustration

IconJar

Icon library manager with a real buy-once option next to the yearly plan

Price: $75 once

Lifetime tierA one-time plan of a subscription app

Price read on geticonjar.com, the page Buy direct opens.

The catch

The pricing page never states what future major versions the 75 dollar licence covers

The full picture

The one-off licence is real, but the page is silent on update entitlement, so treat 75 dollars as buying the app as it stands rather than a promise of free major versions. It manages and exports icons, it does not draw them, so a vector editor is still on the bill. macOS only. It is a two-person project, which is worth knowing before standardising a team on it — though it is actively maintained, with 2.11.4 shipping in January 2026.

Pays back in
36 months
Seats
2 MacsTwo Mac activations per licence; extra resets have to go through Paddle, the vendor
Developer account
None needed
Buy once$75Rent 5 years$125

$50 kept over five years, and you still have the app.
Against IconJar (yearly plan) at $25 a year, the app's own subscription, sold beside the $75 one-time licence on the same page. Also replaces Setapp and Icon marketplace subscription plans.

What it looks like

Images belong to their developers.

What you’re buying

IconJar is a librarian for the icon sets you already own. Drop in SVG, PDF, PNG and icon fonts, tag them, and search the lot from one window instead of trying to remember which of eleven download folders held the right arrow. Previews scale cleanly, you can recolour before export, and you can drag an icon straight into Sketch, Figma, Xcode or a code editor at the size and format you need. It arrives with Google Material Icons already loaded, so there is something to search on day one.

The pricing page offers both models at once: 25 dollars a year, or 75 dollars once. The one-off licence is why the app is listed here, and it is also where the fine print runs out — nothing on the page says which future major versions that payment covers. Buy it as the app you can see today. It is not abandoned: version 2.11.4 shipped in January 2026 from a two-person team.

It organises icons, it does not make them, so you still need a vector editor. And if your icon needs amount to one Material or Lucide set pulled from a package, a folder and a search field will do the job. The buy-once price starts making sense once you are juggling several purchased packs across projects.

What owners report

Points that recur across the discussions below. A report of what users say, not our verdict: we don’t review software.

Praised

  • Designers describe it as where their bought icon sets already live, to the point of judging a new pack by whether it imports cleanly
  • Both founders turn up in other projects' issue trackers to get their sets importing properly, and get thanked for how fast they do it

Criticised

  • How well a set works inside IconJar depends on its author shipping a mapping file - without one, imported fonts show codepoints instead of names
  • Several report that sets imported without that file arrive flat, losing the tags and category structure the pack has on its own site

Details

The price in full

Two options sit side by side on the pricing page: 25 dollars a year, or 75 dollars once. IconJar is also on Setapp at 12 dollars a month. The 14-day trial needs no credit card.

The IconJar page at geticonjar.com
The developer’s own page. geticonjar.com, captured 22 Sep 2026
Free trial
Yes
Works offline
Yes
Apple Silicon
Native
Minimum macOS
not stated
Developer
Davey Heuser and Curtis Hard

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