IconLover Alternatives

IconLover is described as '5.45 is a powerful, yet easy to use icon editor for making your own icons for any operating system, including Windows, Mac OS, *NIX, Android and iOS. It creates native Windows icons (ICO format) of all sizes' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are more than 25 alternatives to IconLover for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Web-based, Linux, Mac and Self-Hosted apps. The best IconLover alternative is IcoFX. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Piskel or Grafx2. Other great apps like IconLover are Greenfish Icon Editor Pro, IconsExtract, IconWorkshop and Mtpaint.

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  1. IcoFX icon
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    IcoFX is a professional icon and cursor editor designed to work with small images. You can easily create, edit, read and save icons with transparency for Windows XP, Vista and Macintosh. You can convert your favorite images into icons, or icons to images.

    50 IcoFX alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • IcoFX is the most popular Windows alternative to IconLover.

    • IcoFX is the most popular commercial alternative to IconLover.

    • IcoFX is Paid and ProprietaryIconLover is also Paid and Proprietary
  2. Piskel icon
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    Remember the good old 2D games and their beautiful sprites? With Piskel you can create your own in a few clicks.

    45 Piskel alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Piskel is the most popular Web-based, Mac, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to IconLover.

    • Piskel is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to IconLover.

    • Piskel is Free and Open SourceIconLover is Paid and Proprietary
  3. Grafx2 icon
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    GrafX2 is a bitmap paint program inspired by the Amiga programs Deluxe Paint and Brilliance. Specialized in 256-color drawing, it includes a very large number of tools and effects that make it particularly suitable for pixel art, game graphics, and generally any detailed...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    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.

    33 Greenfish Icon Editor Pro alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PortableApps.com
     
  5. IconsExtract icon
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    The IconsExtract utility scans your computer, and allows to extrac the icons stored in EXE, DLL, and in other file types.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. IconWorkshop icon
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    IconWorkshop is a professional tool designed to create, extract, convert, manage and redistribute icons for Windows, Mac OS, iPhone, and Android up to 512x512. No complicated settings, no more pixel-by-pixel icon making.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    It's simply the Gold-Standard in icon handling. Even Microsoft recommended it back when the fancy icons were introduced with Windows XP.

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    • IconWorkshop is Paid and ProprietaryIconLover is also Paid and Proprietary
  7. Mtpaint icon
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    mtPaint is a painting program which Mark Tyler developed from scratch so he could easily create pixel art and manipulate digital photos.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  8. CandyBar icon
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    Brought to you by Panic and the Iconfactory, CandyBar 3 brings the best of CandyBar 2 and Pixadex 2 together into one powerful, new application. CandyBar, as always, lets you easily and safely customize your Leopard system icons like the trash can, volumes, and even the infamous...

    12 CandyBar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. Pixelformer icon
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    A tool for creating, editing, and converting icons and bitmaps. Supports layers, supersampling, PNG optimization, Vista icon optimization, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Batch Icon Extractor - a simple tool for batch extraction of icons. Supports compressed Vista icons.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Iconion icon
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    Iconion allows you to convert any icon font into fantastic-looking png icons by adding color, shadow, background, gradient, stroke and many other fancy elements.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  12. Quick Any2Ico icon
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    Allow users to easily create or extract icons and save them as PNG or GIF images, in a range of different resolutions, with compression options for PNG files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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