win95-mode

Win95 Mode

An Android icon pack that makes your phone look like Windows 95. Every app gets its own little 1995 object instead of a logo: a CRT TV for Netflix, a cardboard box for Amazon, a rubber duck for DuckDuckGo.

Download the latest APK

What’s in it

• 305 icons for 356 apps, including the system apps on Samsung, Xiaomi and OnePlus phones
• Apps without an icon yet show up inside a tiny Win95 window
• A calendar icon that shows today’s date
• Wallpapers, plus the Starfield screensaver as a live wallpaper
• The app itself is a little Win95 desktop, in English and Spanish

Missing an app? Open Win95 Mode, tap Request Icons, and send the list.

Installing

Install the APK and open Win95 Mode. It checks your launcher and helps you apply the icons.

You’ll need a launcher that supports icon packs, like Nova, Lawnchair, Smart Launcher, Action or Apex. The stock Pixel and Samsung launchers don’t, but the app will point you to a free one.

Coming from v1 or v2? Uninstall the old version first. Older builds were signed with a temporary key, so Android won’t install v3 over them. Only this once.

Making icons

Icon art is converted to the pack’s pixel style with scripts/win95ify.py (Python 3 and 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-nodpi --strip-bg

It turns any image into 48x48 pixel art on a 192px canvas. Run it with --help for the options. See CONTRIBUTING.md if you’d like to add an app.

Built with Kotlin; works on Android 7 and up.

Credits

• 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