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 for macOS, Windows, or Linux. Free and open source, with no account and no tracking.
The guides
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Discover
Community 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. CreateDesign your own
A canvas for making a skin yourself, from one colour to layers of words, emoji, shapes and pictures. It works offline. ImagineThe AI assistant
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. PaintPrompts for Grok and ChatGPT
No API key needed: give a chat app the folder template and a prompt, then bring the picture into FolderSkin. CheckHow a picture becomes a skin
What the folder does to a picture, where the parts that matter should sit, and how to check one before you share it. SharePack sharing 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
Section titled “What you can do”| When you want to… | Read… |
|---|---|
| Add a pack of skins to your library | Community packs, or press Install in the gallery |
| Make a skin from a colour, a few words or an emoji | Design your own |
| Have AI paint a skin from a description | The AI assistant |
| Make folder art in a chat app, without an API key | Prompts for Grok and ChatGPT |
| See what a folder does to your picture | How a picture becomes a skin |
| Share your skins with everyone | Sharing yours and the pack sharing terms |