MACVAULT  Jeez, you STILL can't change the sort order of icons from ascending to descending and vice versa. Is that so freaking hard to add??  
(Version 3.2.1)

MACVAULT  After going ages without an sort of serious update or new features, they STILL haven't added the ability to reverse sort orders based on criteria. For instance, if you want to sort icons by date added, you cannot choose to show newest ones on top. Lame. I wrote them about this 2 years ago. Pffffft.  
(Version 3.2)

RADDLE  If you like, want or need this software - buy it. If you don't, don't.

I've been a happy user of Pixadex and CandyBar for years. The revised model makes perfect sense: why *not* have all your icons right there in the application designed to apply them? Okay, so it cost a little to upgrade. What's that - four visits to Starbucks? A DVD you'll only watch once? They'd have been perfectly within their rights to charge a nominal fee for the extensive rewrite to come to Leopard: for a few bucks more you're getting a much-improved application.

The developer's job is to improve their product for the general (and evolving) market, and support their families. Wishing them out of business is as loopy and unpleasant as hoping an author will have a heart attack just because you didn't like his last book. Threatening to warez the product is nothing more than theft, and places you well outside the pale of normal computer users.

Reserve your self-righteous ire and excessive use of capitals for companies like Unsanity - who took over a *year* to update some of their software for Tiger, and seem intent on the same glacial approach this time around - rather than people like Panic: who tirelessly (and quickly) tweak their products for each new iteration of the system, who came out punching with a sleek and powerful new version of CandyBar within weeks of Leopard hitting our desktops, and who - via iconfactory -are constantly giving to the Mac community. Or take a pop at Final Draft, which cost a fortune to upgrade just for it to (more or less) work in OSX.

Or better still, why not *relax* a little, remember no-one's holding a gun to your head when it comes to upgrades, and go spend your money on something else - like a good book on anger management. If the freebie alternatives do what you need, use them instead, or you could save every last cent by slavishly changing the icons one at a time (though note the warning about possible future system changes, which CandyBar will help you avoid). Personally, I happily spent the cash to get what CandyBar offers me.

The bottom line is that the ability to futz with your icons is not exactly life-critical, but a pleasure and hobby - which you can choose to spend a few bucks indulging, or not. It's really not worth getting this worked up about, nor worth aligning yourself with thieves, nor wishing ill upon the developers. Get some perspective, and grow up.   
(Version 3.1.2)

MIGUEL  CandyBar is a very nice icon management software but with a long way to go to become the best. Among some issues, It has performance issues when loading big collections of icons. It'd be nice if the caching were permanent, ie, every time one loads Candy Bar big collections should show up instantly.

It does have stability issues, it crashes when importing .ico files.

Organizing collections into folders gets inefficient since one needs to do so in a tiny space in the sidebar.

Export to .PNG has a flaw where it doesn't let you select size 256, it only shows 255. This is a problem with Windows icons that are 256x256, it's not possible to export properly.

When doing a search, if you select an icon from the results and you want to know the collection that it belongs to, there is no way to do so.

The size slider doesn't have a snap-in behavior, even when using modifier keys. It would be nice if it did because it'd be easy to show icons in standard sizes of 16, 32, 64, 128 etc.

If the icon database gets moved (to another HDD), when restarting Candybar it doesn't let you select what the new location is, it only lets you create a new database, or locate the old location.

Overral it's a good app, but it needs sort out performance and stability issues and keep polishing some UI and function issues.  
(Version 3.2.2)

CRICKET99  This program has brought smiles to my face for the many months I have had it and used it gleefully. Yes, I can change the icons manually for my files, but I have no desire to go deep-fishing through files best left untouched by such a programing neophyte as I to change dock icons safely. (Nor do I want my kids doing so! ) I have used CandyBar's free icons extensively for the past several years so it seems a small thing to buy their program, which also organizes and stores my vast collection of icons and docks in an easy to use manner. As I pass my old MB on to my children, I have bought a new license so they can safely and happily change icons to their hearts' content. Apple users have a long and honorable tradition of modifying their desktops to suit their whimsy, and it is a pleasure to support such an elegant application. Besides, how many people in the world still remember the old SciFi show Space:1999, much less make accurate icons of Eagles and commlocks for your computer? :)   
(Version 3.1.2)

EMULAUNCH  As an owner of the original Pixadex I love the new integration of CandyBar. As of today I have over 8,000 icons in my collection and I can't imagine not having CandyBar to manage this collection.

As far as the upgrade price goes, I really have no problem with it and consider it a worthy investment for the application plus the amount of icons/wallpaper/dock skins which Iconfactory produces every year.

One feature I would ask is for smart lists to have the ability to detect dock skins and/or icons that have 512px resources.   
(Version 3.1.2)

JAMUS  I agree it seems a bit steep. Hopefully the FREE "LiteIcon" app's development will continue and put some pressure on them to drop the price.

I had little use for CandyBar, but will miss Pixadex.  
(Version 3.0)

MACINTOSH SAUCE  Just purchased CandyBar 3.0! Excellent app IMHO! I already own Transmit so I naturally trust Panic to make spectacular applications. They haven't let me down so far.  
(Version 3.0)

MACSOLU  3.2.1 crashes upon launch for me with Mac OS X 10.5.8. Reverting back to version 3.2 solves the crashing problem. I will wait until 3.2.2 comes out to try again. Mac Mini '09 model.  
(Version 3.2.1)

DER~BOT~HAUS  3.2.1 is crashing on all first launches on 10.5.8. Click reopen and it works close it and try again, it fails. Logs look like it is trying to launch in 64-bit mode at every first launch regardless of OS. Support did state 10.4-10.6 compatible. I downgraded to 3.2.  
(Version 3.2.1)