ayeris, pronounced “Iris”, like the ring-shaped membrane in your eye or the Greek god of the rainbow, is about making things good, better and to communicating the excellence of timeless design to and for the world.

The ayeris project started back in June of 2013, deeply studying each icon in iOS 6 and how they were designed. A lot of questions were asked like what truly makes an icon. Is it the colours? The glyphs? The playful illustrations? Well, it’s none of this. Rather, it's all of this. Then, we got a glimpse of iOS 7 and I saw the direction where design is going and knew that ayeris was the way to go. Design is not always about changing things just to say it’s different, that’s easy. The hardest part is to take something that is already good, and make it better, with a different approach.

Like everything else, each individual icon needs its own time to set and see how well it ages throughout the design process. Does it communicate well with the app it’s trying to represent? For example, a Photos icon should be represented by a print-out of a photo, but that’s not the world we live in anymore because everything is digital. So, if ayeris was to communicate with the world through a single print-out picture for its Photos icon, this theme would probably be outdated by the end of the year. A Camera icon should represent some sort of device that we use to take pictures with because it only makes sense. So, should it contain a glyph of a popular Sony point and shoot camera? What about DSLRs? Or wait, why not an iPhone because it’s the most popular point and shoot device, right? No. Let’s go with something all cameras have in common, a lens. Then, lets have the Photos icon inside of the lens, as if the camera is taking a picture of a photo, and thus, all photos since all pictures are stored inside the Photos app. This design process wasn’t just for the Photos and Camera icons. It was like this for all 300+ icons.

The icons that shipped with iOS 7 only seem to be somewhat there and need more refining and that’s what ayeris was set to do. Design isn’t always about drastic changes. It’s about making something good, even better and truly beautiful. Take for example, the Videos icon. It’s a fancy neon blue/green clapper board and we get it, but none of us can truly relate because not everyone’s a movie director. And in some cases, the decision was so obvious to use a circular play button, which everyone encounters on daily basis while watching a video on their iOS device.

By using Apple’s grid system, not only does each icon hold itself on its own, but it works alongside others in having a uniform look and feel. It makes it feel like there is a sense of purpose as to why things are the way they look and are positioned. “Why is the shape of that circle in the Safari icon that big? Why are the horizontal lines in the Notes icon that long and not extended to the edges?” – Because it follows a grid system. It doesn’t just stop at the stock icons. Each App Store icon was designed with the grid system in mind as well, like all the iLife and iWorks icons.

ayeris goes beyond the beautiful icons to across iOS 7’s user interface from subtle navigation bars, to the Mail.app and all the way to the tab bars in Safari application. It really is unbelievable how the simplest changes makes the biggest difference to the user experience. The best way to experience ayeris is by using it in your daily life on February 21st, 2014 for $3.99† in Cydia Store.

† Purchase any version of ayeris (iPhone or iPad) first will grant you the other version at a discounted price of $0.99





Thanks for the playful review video Mike Billig

What others have already said about ayeris:

“a solid improvement on the existing design.”

— 9to5mac

“Ayeris is that fresh start—Ayeris is the result of many months of meticulous designing, re-designing, and starting from scratch”

— iDownloadBlog

“It’s like my phone has a mind of its own now—it’s like an iOS 7 ayecon!”

— iH8sn0w

“That's real aye candy :)”

— pimskeks

“Everything is good looking and sharp. It is a ★★★★★ theme!”

— pod2g

“That looks like iOS 7.. done right.”

— winocm

ayeris comes preloaded with:

300+ re-designed icons

Light and dark mode dock

Deep system-wide UI alteration

9 beautiful high-resolution wallpapers

Fully themed Settings.app icons

Status bar icons

…and much, much more to come!



Video by Jeff at iDownloadBlog

List of supported app icons (frequently updated):

1Password

7 Min MC

7 Minute Workout

8tracks

9GAG

AcePlayer

Activator

Activity

Air Canada

AirMusic

Alien Blue - reddit official

Amazon

Amazon UK

American Express

Anki Flashcards

AnyTones

App Shopper

App Store

Apple Store

Apple Watch

AppZappPush

Authy

Bank Of America

Barrel

BBM

BestBuy

Bing

BiteSMS

Blogger

Box

Breaking (News)

Burner

BytaFont

BytaFont 2

Calculator

Calendar

Callbar

Camera

Capital One

Chase

Cineplex

Circa

Clear

Clock

CloudMagic

Cobook

Colloquy

Colour Splash

Compass

Contacts

Costco Canada

Couple

Crash Reporter

Crunchyroll

Cydia

DataMan

DB Navigator

Degrees

Deliveries

Desk Connect

Dex

Dictionary

dict.cc plus

DisplayRecorder

Disney World

Dropbox

Easy Wifi

eBay

Episoder2

Excoute

Eventbrite

F.lux

Facebook

Facebook Camera

Facebook Messenger

Facebook Pages

Facebook Paper

Facebook Poke

FaceTime

Fandango

Fantastical

Fantastical 2

FIFA

File Hub

Find My Friend

Find My iPhone

Fitness Buddy

Flex

FlexPlayer

FlipBoard

FuelBand

Futureshop

Game Center

GarageBand

GasBuddy

Google

Google+

Google Authenticator

Google Chrome

Google Drive

Google Earth

Google Gmail

Google Inbox

Google Maps

Google Music

Google Sheets

Google Slides

Google Translate

Hacker News

Horoscopes

iBooks

iBlacklist

iFile

IMDb

iMovie

Indigo

Instagram

IRCCloud

imgur

ING

iPhoto

iStudiez Pro

iTranslate

iTunes

iTunes U

itü sözlük

Jasmine

KakaoTalk

Keynote

Kijiji

Kik

Kurrency

Line

LinkedIn

Mail

Mailbox

MarvinIP

Maps

Messages

Mobile Learns

Mobile Terminal

ModMyi

Mo PTT

Music

Nest

Netbot

Netflix

news:yc

Nike+ Move

Nike (Running GPS)

Notes

Numbers

OkCupid

OneDrive

OPlayer

OpenVPN

Opera Mini

Opus Domini

osu!

Pages

Pandora (jewelry)

Pandora (radio)

Passbook

Path

PayPal

PC Financial

PC Plus

Pebble

Pebble Dev

Pedometer

Perfect Weather

Phone

Photo Booth

Photos

Pinterest

PlayStation

Pocket

Podcast

Prismatic

Prompt

Push (TNW)

Pushover

QuizUp

RBC Banking

Rdio Music

RedLaser

Reeder 2

Reminders

Remino

Remote

Rogers My Account

RunKeeper

Safari

Scan

Scanner Pro

Segna Punti

Settings

Shazam

Simple (banking)

Simplenote

SiriusXM Canada

Skype

Sleep Cycle

SmartGlass Avatar

SnapChat

Snapseed

SoundCloud

Soundhound (free)

Sparrow

Speedtest

Sphero

Spotify

Steam

Stocard

Stocks

Super Hexagon

Tapatalk

TD Banking

TeeVee 3

Telstra 24/7

Terminal

The Record

Thermodo

Ticketmaster

TimePlay

Tim Hortons

TomTom (Europe)

Transit

TT

Tumblr

TuneIn Radio

Tweetbot 2

Tweetbot 3

Twitter

Uber

UFC TV

Vevo

Viber

Videos

Vine

VSCOcam

VLC

Voice Memos

WaterMinder

Weather

WeChat

Weibo

WeiboChat

WeicoPro

Wells Fargo

WhatsApp

WinterBoard

Words

Wunderlist

Xbox One SmartGlass

XM Canada SkyDock

Yahoo Digest

Yahoo Mail

Yahoo Messenger

Yahoo Weather

YouTube

YouTube Studios

Zedge

百度Hi

百度贴吧

ayeris for iPhone & iPod touch Recent Updates:

Support for iOS 8.3/8.4

Revises several app icons

Adds 6 new icons (Activity, Apple Watch, Google Sheets, Google Slides, KakaoTalk, YouTube Studio)

Support for iOS 8

Adds support for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus

Adds 3 new wallpapers

Revises many stock icons, dock style and user interface elements (check off ‘ayeris Alternate Icons’ for legacy style icons)

Fixes several icon filenames

Adds 10 new icons (Alien Blue, Bing, Costco Canada, Crash Reporter, Crunchyroll, Google Inbox, Kik, OneDrive, Rdio, TuneIn Radio)

Added 2 new icons (Line, Opera Mini)

Minor icon fix/improvements

Added "Touch ID & Passcode" preference icon for iOS 7.1.x users

Minor icon fix/improvements Known issue: ayeris Dock is not working on iOS 7.1.x but is being worked on. Thank you for your patience.

New dock style!

Various image edits

Fixed several icon filenames

Added 34 new icons (Transit, DisplayRecorder, Photo Booth, AnyTones, Telstra 24/7 , SmartGlass Avatar, Chase, Bank of America, Words, IMDb, Fandango, SoundCloud, Steam, Wells Fargo, UFC TV, OPlayer, Perfect Weather, XM Canada SkyDock, SiriusXM Canada, Degress, Burner, Flex, RunKeeper, Google Music, Kurrency, Episoder2, Desk Connect, Mo PTT, Nike (Running GPS), Fitness Buddy, AppZappPush, Netbot, 百度Hi, 百度贴吧, WeicoPro)

Compatible with Greogian

Another minor update properly renaming icon files

Minor update properly renaming icon files

Added 28 new icons (AirMusic, Amazon (UK), Blogger, BiteSMS, Capital One, CloudMagic, Colour Splash, Couple, DataMan, Ecoute, GasBuddy, itü sözlük, ING, Jasmine, Mobile Learns, OkCupid, QuizUp, osu!, RedLaser, Sleep Cycle, Soundhound (free), Super Hexagon, Tapatalk, Telegram, tomtom (europe), WaterMinder, Wunderlist, Yahoo Digest)

Revised several icons

Fixed several missing icons

Added new ‘ayeris Alternative Icons’ in WinterBoard to easily switch between alternative icons (like green Messages icon and previous icon version of Phone—no SSH required)

NOTE: ‘ayeris Alternative Icons’ needs to be moved above all other ayeris selections

‘ayeris Alternative Icons’ needs to be moved above all other ayeris selections Fixed red day font colour issue in Calendar icon

Fixed duplicate Weibo icons in Settings.app

Revised a couple icons

Fully themed settings icon set (thank you @pimskeks!)

Added missing geofence location status bar icon

Added alternative green Messages icon

Added 6 new icons (I'm still filling requests)

Revised several stock icons

Fixed rare issue of chopped app labels

Added 3 new icons

Worldwide launch!

ayeris for iPad Recent Updates:

Support for iOS 8.3/8.4

Revises several app icons

Support for iOS 8

Adds 3 new wallpapers

Revises many stock icons, dock style and user interface elements (check off ‘ayeris Alternate Icons’ for legacy style icons)

Fixes several icon filenames

Added “Passcode” preference icon for non-retina iOS 7.1.x users

Properly themed Maps icon for iOS 7.1.x users

Minor icon fix/improvements

Minor icon fix/improvements

Known issue: ayeris for iPad Dock is not working on iOS 7.1.x but is being worked on. Thank you for your patience.

New dock style!

Various image edits

Fixed several icon filenames

Added 5 new icons (Telstra 24/7, IMDb, Steam, UFC TV, Degress)

Another minor update properly renaming icon files

UI fixes for non-retina iPads (for real this time)

(1.0.3 & 1.0.4 are skipped to match ayeris for iPhone's version)

Minor update properly renaming icon files

UI fixes for non-retina iPads

Added 5 new icons (Amazon (UK), Blogger, CloudMagic, Tapatalk, Wunderlist)

Revised several icons

Fixed several missing icons

Added new ‘ayeris for iPad Alternative Icons’ in WinterBoard to easily switch between alternative icons (like green Messages icon—no SSH required)

NOTE: ‘ayeris for iPad Alternative Icons’ needs to be moved above all other ayeris selections

‘ayeris for iPad Alternative Icons’ needs to be moved above all other ayeris selections Fixed red day font colour issue in Calendar icon

Fixed duplicate Weibo icons in Settings.app

Worldwide launch!

Version 1.2 (Friday December 5, 2014):Version 1.1.4Version 1.1.3Version 1.1 (Saturday April 26, 2014):Version 1.0.6 (Thursday March 13, 2014):Version 1.0.5 (Wednesday March 12, 2014):Version 1.0.4 (Tuesday March 11, 2014):Version 1.0.3 (Wednesday March 5, 2014):Version 1.0.2 (Tuesday March 4, 2014):Version 1.0.1 (Saturday February 22, 2014):Version 1.0 (Friday February 21, 2014):Version 1.2 (Friday December 5, 2014):Version 1.1.4:Version 1.1.3:Version 1.1 (Saturday April 26, 2014):Version 1.0.6 (Thursday March 13, 2014):Version 1.0.5 (Wednesday March 12, 2014):Version 1.0.2 (Tuesday March 11, 2014):Version 1.0.1 (Wednesday March 5, 2014):Version 1.0 (Tuesday March 4, 2014):