Greenfish Icon Editor Pro
GFIE Pro is a powerful icon, cursor, animation and icon library editor. Layer support with advanced selection handling makes it a really professional and unique freeware tool for designing small pixelgraphic images.
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- PortableApps.com
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- Support for Layers
- Portable
- Visual Editing
- Multiple languages
- Blur Filter
- Transparency
- Extract Icons
Tags
- animated-cursors
Greenfish Icon Editor Pro News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
reactorcore added Greenfish Icon Editor Pro as alternative to Image to ico Easymode
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What is Greenfish Icon Editor Pro?
GFIE Pro is a powerful icon, cursor, animation and icon library editor. Layer support with advanced selection handling makes it a really professional and unique freeware tool for designing small pixelgraphic images. GFIE offers high-quality filters like Bevel, Drop Shadow and Glow; supports editing animated cursors and managing icon libraries. Its lightweight (< 1.8 MB unzipped) and also has a portable version - just unpack it to your USB drive and use it anywhere. A clean, customizable, multilanguage user interface makes it really easy to learn and use.
Greenfish Icon Editor Pro information
Developed by
Greenfish Corporation Licensing
Proprietary and Free Personal product.Alternatives
33 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
- Spanish
- Arabic
- Bulgarian
- Chinese
- Croatian
- Czech
- Dutch
- Finnish
Comments and Reviews
I use it since many years to replace IcoFX when that one became non free. PROs:
Perfect for my needs. Many thanks to the author.
Gilles
Didn't even try it, and I won't. It's 2022, there's no excuse for any site, especially one delivering software, to be http only (not https). This not only allows for attackers to intercept the traffic and replace the download with a malicious one, but it also speaks to the lack of security mindedness of the developer, not something I want in software. This is at least the second one I've found in the past day, and IMO AlternativeTo should either not include and link to these, or it should place a warning to users. Many people come here looking for software and don't know better, and all it takes is for one of them to be compromised and those users will be negatively affected, and AlternativeTo will be complicit.
Previously a user of IcoFX Portable which I like but is getting no updates, was looking for an Open Source equivalent. Greenfish seems like a good fit. Open Source, Portable, has all the functions I need e.g. creating icon libraries. Interface style is quite plain but everything works. I agree with vertigo's comment regarding their website not using https - something the devs should really fix. Fortunately Greenfish can also be downloaded from more secure and reputable locations, like MajorGeeks https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/greenfish_icon_editor_pro.html
I needed to make a ICO file with multiple sizes for MSWindows. Worked like a charm. Definitely recommend!
It's a software I've been using for years. First of all I would like to thank Mr. Balázs Szalkai for this very useful software. The software is simple and easy to use. Moreover, it is free. Therefore, it is two steps ahead of its alternatives.
So do I, when I create an icon for Windows, I just untick all the boxes except every 32-bit one. But the software doesn't remember my preference when restarted. Other than that, there is no problem.
I have been using this for years to create icons for my games/apps. Even if has not been updated up to today, it works perfectly for me. I usually use it along with Gimp, if I want to create an icon and copy/paste it on Greenfish or just download a PNG and drag and drop it on it. It also works if you want to extract an application icon, by again dragging and dropping the application on it, letting it extract it's icons.
When I create an icon for Windows I just untick all the boxes except every 32-bit one. I arrange then the icons on it's list so the 256 is first. Never really had a problem with it.
I've yet only used it once to create a .ico for one of my applications, pasting a 32x32 and a 16x16 pixel image into it from an image editor, so I can't really say if it's better or worse than any other icon editor. But for the purpose I'm using it, it works perfectly fine!
Oh, and it doesn't appear to contain any malware or PUP's or anything. I downloaded it directly from the (seemingly) official web site.