Pick. Apply. Change your mind anytime.
Pick a shape
Browse a curated set of about ten shapes, ranked best-fit-first for the number of icons actually on your desktop. A live preview mirrors your real desktop, so you see exactly how it will look before anything moves.
Apply
Hit Apply and your icons glide across the wallpaper into place. They’re not pictures of icons — they’re your actual icons, repositioned. Double-click, right-click, and drag all keep working.
Always reversible
Undo steps back through your changes. And “Original layout” is a snapshot of how Iconstellation first found your desktop — never overwritten, and restores follow icons by name even if things have shuffled since.
Small, careful, and honest about it.
Version 1 does a few things well. Here is the whole list.
✓Curated shapes, ranked for you
Around ten hand-tuned shapes, sorted by how well each one fits your icon count — the best matches come first, not a wall of thumbnails.
✓Live preview
The preview mirrors your real desktop — your wallpaper, your icons — so there are no surprises when you apply.
✓Glide animation
Applying a shape animates your icons smoothly across the wallpaper into their new positions. A small moment of delight, on your real desktop.
✓Real icons, real shell
Iconstellation positions icons through documented Windows shell automation. No overlays, no fake desktops, nothing renamed or deleted — icons only ever move.
✓Undo & Original layout
Multi-step Undo, plus a never-overwritten snapshot of your original desktop. Restores follow icons by name, so the safety net holds even after changes.
✓Offline by design
v1 makes zero network connections and collects nothing. Everything lives locally in %APPDATA% — and uninstalling never deletes your safety net.
Where the sky is heading.
None of this is in the app yet. It’s what we’re building toward.
Live mode
Your desktop slowly morphs between shapes on a timer — a constellation that drifts through the day.
Creator Mode
Draw your own shapes, dot by dot, and apply them to your desktop.
Multi-monitor magic
Constellations that span every screen on your desk. Our most-requested aspiration, and one we’re determined to get right.
Shape sharing community
Share the shapes you make and browse what others have drawn.
The free tier is genuinely usable on its own — it isn’t a trial. A one-time $19 Pro unlock is planned for Creator Mode and extra shape packs. Plans can change; we’ll only charge for things that exist.
Nothing leaves your PC. Nothing.
This isn’t marketing shorthand — it’s how v1 is built:
- Zero network connections. No telemetry, no analytics, no account, no phone-home.
- Everything Iconstellation stores lives locally in
%APPDATA%\Iconstellation. - Uninstalling never deletes your original-layout safety net.
The exact wording lives in our privacy statement — it’s short enough to actually read.