# Overview

How to use FolderSkin: community packs, designing your own skins, the AI assistant, and sharing packs.

FolderSkin gives any folder a skin: a painting, a photo, a colour, a few words. Pick one from a free community pack, design your own, or describe a style and let AI paint it. Only the folder's icon changes. The files inside stay as they are, and the old icon is a click away.

[Download FolderSkin](https://folderskin.app/#downloads) for macOS, Windows, or Linux. Free and open source, with no account and no tracking.

## The guides

1. [Community packs](https://folderskin.app/docs/packs/): Add free packs people made and shared, in a click, and share a pack of your own. How packs are made, checked and installed.
2. [Design your own](https://folderskin.app/docs/composer/): A canvas for making a skin yourself, from one colour to layers of words, emoji, shapes and pictures. It works offline.
3. [The AI assistant](https://folderskin.app/docs/ai/): Describe a skin and let AI paint it, free on your own computer or with a key from a provider you already use. Where the key lives, and what is sent.
4. [Prompts for Grok and ChatGPT](https://folderskin.app/docs/prompts/): No API key needed: give a chat app the folder template and a prompt, then bring the picture into FolderSkin.
5. [How a picture becomes a skin](https://folderskin.app/docs/skins/): What the folder does to a picture, where the parts that matter should sit, and how to check one before you share it.
6. [Pack sharing terms](https://folderskin.app/docs/pack-terms/): What you agree to when you share a pack: pictures that are yours to give, and what they must not contain.

## What you can do

| When you want to… | Read… |
| --- | --- |
| Add a pack of skins to your library | [Community packs](https://folderskin.app/docs/packs/#adding-a-pack), or press Install in the [gallery](https://folderskin.app/community/) |
| Make a skin from a colour, a few words or an emoji | [Design your own](https://folderskin.app/docs/composer/) |
| Have AI paint a skin from a description | [The AI assistant](https://folderskin.app/docs/ai/) |
| Make folder art in a chat app, without an API key | [Prompts for Grok and ChatGPT](https://folderskin.app/docs/prompts/) |
| See what a folder does to your picture | [How a picture becomes a skin](https://folderskin.app/docs/skins/) |
| Share your skins with everyone | [Sharing yours](https://folderskin.app/docs/packs/#sharing-yours) and the [pack sharing terms](https://folderskin.app/docs/pack-terms/) |

## Where to start

1. [Add your first pack](https://folderskin.app/community/): Press Install on any pack in the gallery, or open Community in the app.
2. [Make a skin of your own](https://folderskin.app/docs/composer/): Design one from a colour, a few words or an emoji, right on your computer.
3. [Share your skins with everyone](https://folderskin.app/docs/packs/#sharing-yours): Put them in a pack, and anyone who uses FolderSkin can add it for free.