Free X-Icon Editor AlternativesIcon Editors and other similar apps like X-Icon Editor

The best free alternative to X-Icon Editor is Grafx2, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to X-Icon Editor and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to X-Icon Editor are Icons8, Greenfish Icon Editor Pro, IconsExtract and CandyBar.

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  1. 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
     
  2. Icons8 icon
     74 likes

    Comprehensive resource offering 1.3 million icons, illustrations, photos, AI-driven editing such as background removal and upscaling, royalty-free music, custom creation tools, direct integration with design software, plus community and tutorial support.

    75 Icons8 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Figma
    • Adobe Illustrator
    • Lunacy
    • Adobe Photoshop
     
  3. 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.

    31 Greenfish Icon Editor Pro alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PortableApps.com
     
  4. 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
     
  5. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    CandyBar vs X-Icon Editor Comments
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    IT's not an editor, just a tool to replace icons on your mac.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • CandyBar is Free and ProprietaryX-Icon Editor is also Free and Proprietary
  6. Mtpaint icon
     8 likes

    mtPaint is a painting program which Mark Tyler developed from scratch so he could easily create pixel art and manipulate digital photos.

    32 Mtpaint alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. 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
     
  9. 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
     
  10. Favicon.cc icon
     4 likes

    favicon.cc is a tool to create or download favicon.ico icons, that get displayed in the address bar of every browser.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. Pixelformer icon
     14 likes

    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
     
  12. Quick Any2Ico icon
     7 likes

    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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