Version 2.00 for macOS - Icon Explorer, Colors Panel, and Automatic Updates

Axialis IconVectors 2.00 is now available for macOS on Intel and Apple silicon. It brings the full 2.00 feature set that shipped for Windows on September 3: the Icon Explorer workspace with built-in file management and Batch Processing, the new Colors panel, Even-Odd and Non-Zero fill rules, a Control Bar that adapts to what you are doing, and the 155-tool MCP server. It also adds something the Mac version did not have before: automatic in-app updates.

Install it once from the download page. From 2.00 on, that is the last DMG you handle by hand; later versions arrive through the built-in updater. IconVectors 2.00 for Linux is coming soon.

Automatic updates from 2.00 on

IconVectors 2.00 for macOS ships with an automatic update system built on Sparkle, the open-source update framework used by many Mac applications. When a new version is out, IconVectors tells you, downloads it, and replaces itself; you relaunch and you are on the new version. No DMG to fetch, nothing to drag into Applications, no settings lost on the way.

This applies to every version after 2.00. Because 1.70 does not have the updater yet, 2.00 itself is installed from the DMG one last time; after that, Help -> Check for Updates and the periodic check handle the rest.

What's new in 2.00 for macOS

• Icon Explorer - A second workspace that shows a folder's SVG files as a thumbnail grid, with subfolders and their icon counts above. Only the visible tiles render, so large folders stay responsive. Switch with the Editor/Explorer control at the left of the Control Bar; the open document keeps its layout.
• Built-in file management - Copy, Paste, Duplicate, Rename, Batch Rename, New Folder, Group in Folder and confirmed Delete, right from the Explorer. Paste and Duplicate never overwrite an existing file.
• Navigation and live updates - Editable path, Back and Forward history, Recent Folders, Up, the Documents and Elements shortcuts, and one button per mounted volume. The current folder is watched, so changes made by another application appear on their own.
• Batch Processing - Apply Palette, Resize Icons or Apply Strokes on every selected file, using the same transformations as the Editor. Each batch is planned and validated first, with exact changed, unchanged, unsupported and failed counts, and rolls back on failure.
• New Colors panel - One pane with a PALETTES page and a COLORS page: a color field, a hue strip, HEX, RGB or HSL values, quick colors, and a Recent row. Left-click applies to Fill, right-click applies to Stroke.
• Even-Odd and Non-Zero fill rules - Path -> Fill Rule controls how compound paths and holes render; the rule is read from and written to the SVG.
• MCP with 155 tools - The local MCP server now covers Icon Explorer navigation, file operations and the batch plan-then-apply protocol, with setup guides for Codex, Claude, Cursor, VS Code Copilot, Gemini CLI, Kiro, Cline and GitHub Copilot CLI.
• Automatic updates - Sparkle-based in-app updates, described above.
• Reliability - Navigation, panels, popups, drag and drop and workspace restoration are smoother, and numerous bugs have been fixed.

A faster color workflow

The Colors panel keeps a color of its own, separate from the selection: dial it in with the field, the hue strip or a typed HEX, RGB or HSL value, then click through as many elements as you like, left for Fill and right for Stroke. Recent colors stay one click away, and the PALETTES page keeps the palette commands you already use.

Learn more

• The 2.00 for Windows announcement, with the full release notes
• Complete changelog
• IconVectors feature overview
• Organize SVG icon folders with the Icon Explorer
• Batch process SVG icons with the Icon Explorer
• Fill and stroke colors with the Colors panel
• Icon Explorer documentation
• MCP integration overview