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, Mac, Linux and iPhone 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 Dotpict.

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Piskel icon
     34 likes

    Remember the good old 2D games and their beautiful sprites? With Piskel you can create your own in a few clicks.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. Grafx2 icon
     43 likes

    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
     
  4. 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
     
  5. IconsExtract icon
     28 likes

    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
     32 likes

    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.

    • IconWorkshop is Paid and ProprietaryIconLover is also Paid and Proprietary
  7. Dotpict icon
     5 likes

    Dotpict is a simple, intuitive and effective pixel art editor designed for mobile use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  8. CandyBar icon
     16 likes

    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. Mtpaint icon
     7 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Iconion icon
     9 likes

    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. Online favicon generator & creator provides to convert image GIF, JPEG, PNG and download in favicon.ico format 16x16 or 32x32 pixels or HTML code. This website also has a fantastic favicon gallery with download.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
     
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