A nostalgic Windows 95-style icon pack and wallpaper manager for Android. Transform your phone into a retro desktop experience.
- Complete icon overhaul: every icon is now a real Win95-style object — a CRT television for Netflix, a cardboard box for Amazon, a camcorder for TikTok — instead of a pixelated modern logo
- New icons and mappings: Telegram, Signal, Twitch, Firefox, Google Photos, Play Games, Clock and more
- Fallback plaque for unthemed apps
- MS Sans Serif pixel font and working window controls in the app
- Wallpapers at phone resolution, applicable to home and lock screen
- 50+ app icons styled like classic Windows 95
- Apps without a themed icon get a beveled Win95 plaque, so the whole home screen stays coherent
- Authentic Win95 UI elements (beveled borders, 3D buttons, MS Sans Serif pixel font)
- Classic wallpapers (teal, clouds, setup, stars, matrix) for home and lock screen
- Works with all major Android launchers
- Nova Launcher
- Lawnchair
- Action Launcher
- Apex Launcher
- Smart Launcher
- And more...
- Download and install the APK from Releases
- Open your launcher settings
- Navigate to Icon Pack or Theme
- Select "Win95 Mode"
- Enjoy the nostalgia!
- Language: Kotlin
- Platform: Android (API 24 - Android 7.0+)
- UI: XML Layouts with custom drawable resources
- Build System: Gradle with Kotlin DSL
- Architecture: Single-activity app with intent filters for launcher integration
- Icon Pack Protocol: Supports ADW, Nova, Apex, Action, Lawnchair, and Smart Launcher icon pack formats via
appfilter.xml - Min SDK: 24 | Target SDK: 36
Icon artwork is normalized with scripts/win95ify.py (requires Python 3 with Pillow):
python3 -m venv .venv && .venv/bin/pip install Pillow
.venv/bin/python scripts/win95ify.py win95ify <source-images> -o app/src/main/res/drawable --strip-bgIt converts any source image to a true pixel grid with a reduced retro palette
on a 192x192 canvas. Run it with --help for all options.
- MS Sans Serif pixel font: FontStruct recreation by "lou" (CC BY-SA 3.0), via 98.css
- Classic system icons based on the Windows 95/98 originals