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24 alternatives to Icon Horse

Dead simple & easy to use favicons for any website

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Icon Horse launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    I spent a few hours on a weekend writing a project using v0 called favicon.run, which is an icon tool website, the first released feature is to get icons of various sizes of other websites and support embedding in your website, articles, design materials. Therefore it supports markdown embed and web embedding, suitable for directory website construction and product design, article citations.

    2025 · favicon.run · its alternatives →

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    120+ Completely vector, animated icons for interfaces 💪

    2019 · movinicons.webflow.io · its alternatives →

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    Create a favicon in a few clicks from text, image, or emoji.

    2020 · favicon.io · its alternatives →

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    Design Stripe-like favicons in seconds

    2020 · formito.com · its alternatives →

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    Create a stylish favicon.ico file for your website using this interactive tool.

    2014 · fav.ninja · its alternatives →

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    Iconpie▲97

    All your icons easy as pie

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Favicons for HN. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

    2022 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

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    Discover beautiful AI-generated app icons for your products

    2022 · candyicons.com · its alternatives →

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    High quality icons on demand from talented designers

    2016 · iconscout.com · its alternatives →

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    favico.js▲184

    Superpower your favicon with badges, images or videos

    2021 · lab.ejci.net · its alternatives →

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    Generate favicons & manifest file for your site/PWA

    2023 · favicon.now · its alternatives →

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    Create distinctive, animated favicons from GIFs

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Make your users say “Ha!”

    2017 · icons8.com · its alternatives →

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    Design a letter-based favicon like most big tech companies, or be playful and create an emoji-based favicon. Modern browsers supports SVG favicon. Be creative.

    2020 · formito.com · its alternatives →

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    Create beautiful icons for your projects, apps or extensions

    2022 · ray.so · its alternatives →

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    Favicon or software icon creation made super easy

    2025 · reactorcore.itch.io · its alternatives →

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    Professional logo to favicon & app icon generator

    2025 · logofoundry.app · its alternatives →

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    Iconhub▲163

    Custom and own beautiful icons in no time

    2020 · iconhub.io · its alternatives →

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    Favicon Kit has 5 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

    2018 · faviconkit.com · its alternatives →

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    Craft the Perfect FavIcons in Seconds

    Dec 2025 · iconforge.designbyte.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, We couldn’t find a reliable favicon provider for our CRM [1]. There are existing solutions (FaviconKit, Google faviconV2, ...) but we have faced issues with all of them: rate-limiting, down-time, inconsistent icon size. We were looking for a solution that is: 1) reliable: no down-time ; 2) accurate: request a specific icon size to optimize for user bandwidth ; 3) high-quality: that provides the highest resolution icon available for a given requested size ; 4) open-source: this is a common need and a simple problem to solve: an open solution should exist and anybody should be able to…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Create high quality app icons from text in 3 easy steps

    2023 · candyicons.com · its alternatives →

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    Create custom icons from text | text to favicon

    2024 · favicongenerator.io · its alternatives →

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