Viggo
Viggo is an independent developer who builds and runs APPLORE, an app-icon inspiration library and suite of AI tools for people who make apps. APPLORE helps designers and developers research real App Store and Google Play icons, create and refine their own icons, preview them, and export production assets.
At a Glance
- Indie app developers
- Product and app designers
- Design studios and heavy creators
- Mobile-app teams shipping on iOS and Android
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AI Tools by Viggo
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APPLORE
AI App Icon Generator Library
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Latest News
Viggo announced APPLORE's Product Hunt launch, featuring AI logo animation, 18,000+ real icons and a free store-screenshot generator.
Category pages began showing common colors, styles and subjects with icon shares.
APPLORE launched the App Store Screenshot Generator and iPhone Mockup Generator.
APPLORE launched its app-icon design research and guides blog.
Products & Services
Search and browse real App Store and Google Play icons by category, color, style, letter and release date; preserves earlier icon versions and supports natural-language AI search.
Generates original app icons from descriptions and optional reference icons/styles using multiple image models.
Creates custom logo or app-icon motion and exports Lottie or animated SVG for splash screens, loading states and websites.
Previews an icon on iPhone and Android home screens, in App Store and Google Play results, at small sizes and on the web.
Market Position
APPLORE positions itself as a combined app-icon research library and creation workflow rather than only an AI image generator. Its differentiators are a large cross-platform corpus of real store icons, historical icon versions and screenshot history, visual filters and AI search, followed by generation, preview, export and launch-asset tools. Comparable categories include AI icon generators such as CandyIcons and Icon Maker, and app-store creative suites such as AppLaunchFlow; APPLORE emphasizes inspiration plus end-to-end icon production.
Leadership
Founders
Viggo (Viggo Cheung; online @viggozw/@decohack)
Independent developer, designer and photographer. APPLORE's official About page says Viggo has worked on mobile apps for global markets since 2016, including more than three years in product design at Tencent, followed by app monetization and user acquisition and then product leadership. GitHub describes Viggo as an IndieHacker / Designer / Photographer and former Tencent worker.
Executive Team
Viggo (Viggo Cheung)
Founder and sole builder/operator of APPLORE
Product-design and mobile-app professional with prior product-design experience at Tencent, followed by app monetization, user acquisition and product-lead roles; independently building AI products since late 2022.
Founding Story
Viggo created APPLORE after seeing that app-store search exposed only a few icons at a time and did not preserve icon history. The initial concept was a searchable, historical library of real app icons that could show what works in stores; Viggo's launch post says the first version was a one-week design-to-Cursor coding experiment and began with more than 5,000 manually selected icons.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Freemium subscriptions and one-time membership. Free users receive limited credits and library/download access; paid members receive monthly credits and full library/tool access. AI features consume credits, and members can buy additional credit packs.
Pricing Tiers
25 signup credits; first 300 icons in each list; 5 PNG downloads and 5 AI searches per day; limited saves; access to try AI tools, previews and quick export packs.
500 credits per month; full library and past versions; unlimited downloads and AI search; screenshots, App Graveyard, saves, AI models, SVG export and AI export packs.
2,000 credits per month; everything in Pro plus concurrent generation of 8 icons and 6 logo animations with priority queue.
Lifetime access to the full library and non-AI tools, 800 AI credits, unlimited saves and future non-AI tools; limited to the first 300 members.
Target Markets
- Indie app developers
- Product and app designers
- Design studios and heavy creators
- Mobile-app teams shipping on iOS and Android
- People working on app-store marketing assets and ASO
- App icon inspiration and competitive/design research
- Generating and iterating an icon for a new mobile app
- Checking an icon at realistic home-screen and store-listing sizes
- Exporting platform-specific icon assets for shipping
- Creating app-store screenshots and device mockups
- Animating a logo for a splash screen, loading state or website