A mobile terminal and a control method thereof are disclosed. The mobile terminal includes a display, and a controller configured to display, on the display, a home screen on which at least one icon is displayed, to execute an application corresponding to an icon selected from the at least one icon, and to display at least one of a shape, color and size of the at least one icon depending on an execution environment of the application. According to the present invention, a user can intuitively recognize an execution state of an application since an icon corresponding to the application can be displayed differently according to application execution environments.