Features

FoliCon has grown a lot since its first release, and it has a lot of features now while still being best at its core features.

• Two Modes for Icons

  • Poster

    • Six built-in poster overlay styles to customize icon appearance: Legacy, Alternate, Faelpessoal, Liaher, Faelpessoal Horizontal, and Windows 11 Style (added v4.4.0)

    • Transparent PNG support in the image preview viewer (v4.4.0)

    • Multiple video trailers available for all media types including Games (v4.4.0)

  • Professional

• Overlay Store — Browse and install community-created overlay styles from a built-in store, powered by FoliCon-Overlays. See Overlay Store. (v5.3.0)

• Overlay Designer — Create your own custom overlay styles visually with a WYSIWYG designer built into FoliCon. See Overlay Designer. (v5.3.0)

• BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) — FoliCon uses your own API keys for TMDB, IGDB, and DeviantArt, stored securely with DPAPI encryption. See Getting Started. (v5.0.0)

• Watcher-exclusive icon downloads — In Professional Mode, authenticate with DeviantArt to access icons exclusive to an artist's watchers. (v5.1.0)

• Advanced subfolder processing — Control scan depth, optionally iconify the root folder, and skip folders that already have icons. See Subfolder processing. (v5.2.0)

• Multilingual—

  • FoliCon is available in 6 languages.

    • English, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, and Portuguese.

• Custom Icon setter

  • To let you set your own downloaded icons to the folders

• Explorer context menu integration

  • FoliCon has the option to add/remove integration into the explorer context menu to let you change the icons of the folders directly from the explorer.

• Plex standard naming format support (poster mode)—TITLE (YEAR) {tmdb/imdb/tvdb-id} See discussion

• Nested Folder search (Poster mode)

  • FoliCon can search for the media in the nested folders.

• Extract gallery feature

  • FoliCon has an extract gallery feature that lets you chose from a archive of images in professional mode. see Extract gallery

• Instantly refreshes the icons

  • FoliCon instantly refreshes the icons when you change the icon of a folder.

• Option to clear explorer cache

  • FoliCon has an option to clear the explorer cache, which is useful when the icons are not refreshing.

• Option to delete applied icons from a directory and its subdirectories

• Error reporting system

  • FoliCon has an error reporting system that lets you report errors directly to the developer.