Tired of typing SF Symbol codes into a search bar hoping you spelled the icon name right? All The Icons turns that guesswork into a single searchable menu of 200,000 emojis, hand-drawn glyphs, app icons, and symbols, recolored and resized on the spot, ready to paste into whatever shortcut menu you’re building.
Inside the shortcut
Run All The Icons on its own or call it from inside another shortcut you’re building, and it opens a searchable library covering emojis, hand-drawn icons, app icons, and niche symbols pulled from a set of roughly 200,000 options. Search by name, keyword, or category, then adjust the color, size, and stroke of whatever you pick before it hands the result back as text or a dictionary your shortcut can use directly. Developers who also use Cyclone, the same author’s function library, can pull icons from here straight into a Cyclone-built menu.
How to install
- Tap Add Shortcut on this page to open All The Icons in the Shortcuts app.
- Scroll the preview to the bottom and tap Add Shortcut again to confirm.
- Run it once on its own to browse the library and confirm search works the way you expect.
- To call it from another shortcut, add it as a Run Shortcut action and pass through the search term you want pre-filled.
How to use it
Launch All The Icons and type what you’re after: a keyword like “cloud,” a category, or the exact name of an SF Symbol you already know. Filter results by icon type if the first pass returns too much, then tweak color, size, and stroke width until the icon matches the rest of your menu. Confirm your pick and the shortcut hands back either plain text or a dictionary, depending on how you’re using the result downstream.
Save icons you reuse often to a collection so you’re not re-searching the same term every time you build a new menu. That collection is what makes repeat menu-building fast. Once you’ve assembled a set of icons for, say, a home automation menu, you can pull the whole set back in seconds instead of hunting through 200,000 options again.
Where this fits
- Building a styled Shortcuts menu without leaving the app to Google an emoji or look up an SF Symbol name.
- Standardizing icon color and size across every menu in a shortcut you’re actively developing.
- Calling the icon picker from inside your own shortcut so end users get the same polished menu experience.
- Reusing a saved collection of icons across multiple projects instead of rebuilding the same set from scratch.
Quick answers
Do I need to know SF Symbol names to use this?
No, that’s the point. Search by a plain keyword or category instead, and the icon library matches it without you needing to remember Apple’s naming scheme.
Can I use this inside a shortcut I’m already building, not just standalone?
Yes. Add it as a Run Shortcut action and pass in a search term, and it returns an icon you can drop straight into your own menu.
What’s the difference between the text output and the dictionary output?
Text output is just the icon character or symbol name printed directly, ready to paste. Dictionary output packages that same result with extra metadata attached, which matters more if your own shortcut needs to process the icon programmatically rather than just display it.
Does this work with Cyclone or other function libraries?
If you already use Cyclone from the same developer, All The Icons slots into a Cyclone-built menu directly, since both were designed to work together.
