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In creating an iOS app icons, it'd be great to see if I'm getting too close to anything that is already out there... but is there any good way to check? I haven't come across any archives out there of mobile device app icons.
I think of an amazing resource like this ( http://bookcoverarchive.com/ ) for book covers, and wonder why I don't know about the iphone icon equivalent.
Anyone?
UPD: http://iosicongallery.com
Here is a small collection of apps icons that hopefully will help you: http://www.iosinspires.me/category/appicons/
Also try to search Dribbble: http://dribbble.com/search?page=2&q=app+icon
IconFinder has some really nice icons, but they are not categorized by types you are looking for (mobile, iOS).
Some related icons might be found be searching for Applications and Apple.
I don't know how well this would work for icons but google image search now has a way to upload an image and find visually-similar images. After the initial search you can add keywords to the uploaded image data to narrow results.
Just click on the icon in the image search field to upload an image: https://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi
I used this to look for larger versions of an image I found recently and it worked great. For other uses, it not always is great. It seems to look for image with similar color distribution. It's worth a try.
For iOS apps, you could look through the Popular Apps section on http://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/ios/id36?mt=8 for your specific category.
