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Yay! After 2 rejections and 1.5 months of waiting, the 1.1 update to TweetCapz was finally approved and with it comes a whole bunch of new features as well as a new name!

Yes, we decided to rename our app to PhotoCaps. After being on the App Store for over a month, we came to realize that TweetCapz wasn’t really evocative or meaningful when it came to describe the app. It’s important to keep it simple and descriptive but at the same time, not to pigeonhole your app into something that it’s not. PhotoCaps is primarily a photography app, not a twitter app. We’ve learned our lesson.

We also decided to update the icon. This new icon is much simpler and less cluttered than the previous one (our first one was way too generic). I’ve posted all three iterations so you can see how it’s evolved. We definitely like this new one the best, but we’d LOVE to hear your opinions on them!

Here’s our first icon:

At first, we liked it because of its simplicity but we quickly realized that there are probably hundreds of apps with the same icon. Also, it doesn’t really show you what the app does.

Here’s our second icon attempt:

This icon was an attempt to cram all the features of the app into the icon. Of course, when shrunk down to 57×57, it becomes a cluttered mess. While we thought this was better than our first icon, ultimately, there was just too much going on.

And finally, PhotoCaps’ icon:

We really like this icon because of its simplicity but also its uniqueness. It’s obviously a photography app and although it doesn’t evoke much more than that, it’s eye-catching enough (at least we think so) to potentially draw you in to at least click it to find out more.

What do you think?