When comparing Folder Painter vs Folderico, the Slant community recommends Folderico for most people. In the question“What are the best Windows icon customizers?” Folderico is ranked 1st while Folder Painter is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose Folderico is:
Folderico won't clutter your context menu.
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Pros
Pro Uses custom icons
Pro Context menu
Pro Free to use
Pro Can restore vanilla icons
Pro The context menu can quickly apply icons to folder
Pro Options of context menu can be shown only with shift + Right click
It could be great so you don't clutter your context menu.
Pro You have limits of icons per library
14 icons per library + 1 if you use an other icons for the folder of the library.
Pro Submenu to the context menu
Folderico won't clutter your context menu.
Pro Comes with official icons pack
Pro User friendly
Organisation is a day to day task, being user frendly is important for the adoption of a solutions you will use often as well as discovering feature quickly to start using as soon as possible.
Pro You have no limits of icons per library
Others options can limit it, Folder Painter has a hard limit of 14 icons (+1 eventually) per library, for example.
Pro You can import multiple icons in one selection
In other software you are usually forced to select one then go back to your folder explorer to add a new one in a library of icons.
Pro You can add custom icons
Pro You can apply icons to multiple folders at the same time
You can add multiple folder adresses in the icons manager and click apply to apply your icons to these folders.
Pro You can also manage icons folders in a window
Some other options have only window or only context menu.
Pro Fast context menu
Cons
Con Proprietary
Con Outdated UI
Con In context menu, each library is a different options
It clutters the context menu really fast, especialy with the 14 library icons limits.
Con There is a hard limit of library
16
Con You need to add custom icons one by one
You are forced to go back to folder explorer for each icon.
Con Most interesting feature paywalled
Con Proprietary
Con Expensive paywall
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