Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Simple Badges – Simple Icons on Your Favorite Shields.io Badges

Around this time a year ago, I forked and built Simple Badges on top of the Simple Icons website. Existing projects on this often try to manually maintain a single, huge Markdown file containing pre-assembled Shields.io badges for people to pick. They usually require constant manual effort to follow upstream updates and may lack some icons as a result. Simple Badges automatically tracks upstream icon updates, provides a badge preview page that easy to navigate, and makes it easy to get all four styles of badges in Markdown or HTML img format. If you happen to be refurbishing your profile -…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Simple Badges – Simple Icons on Your Favorite Shields.io Badges launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   One Badge▲136

   Automatically translate your app's download button ✨

   2018 · one-badge.com · its alternatives →

2. 2SI
   Supershields.io – smart, Lua-powered SVG status badges▲97

   2022 · supershields.io · its alternatives →

3. 3
   We Stand With Ukraine Website Badge▲193

   A simple website badge to show your support for Ukraine

   2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   100k Open Source Icons by Iconshock▲485

   Every open source icon on the internet, tagged & optimized

   2021 · iconshock.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Icon buddy▲526

   Discover thousands of free, high-quality icons from popular collections like Material Design, Feather, Heroicons, and more. Download SVG and PNG icons for your projects.

   2023 · iconbuddy.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Lineicons 3.0▲460

   5000+ Line icons for designers and developers

   2021 · lineicons.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Touched Grass▲405

   I started giving away badges on X to people who touched grass just for fun and most of them loved it! So I decided to create a whole website about it. Process is simple: - Enter X username / url - Fetch Profile image and choose badge - Generates a badge page which can be shared with nice OG images The site is deployed on Vercel, with R2 and Browser rendering for OG images and data storage.

   Dec 2025 · touched-grass.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   shieldcn▲10

   hey hn! been working on a small side project called shieldcn and just added a badge builder + community showcase. the shieldcn project was so well recieved and I got some great feedback, so coming here in hopes I get more. https://www.shieldcn.dev/showcase the idea is just to make badges that feel a bit more like real UI instead of the usual shields style ones you can mess around with styles, icons, themes and share whatever you make still super early so mostly trying to figure out if this is actually useful or if i'm missing something obvious if anything feels off or…

   Apr 2026 · shieldcn.dev · its alternatives →

9. 9
   MDB - Markdown Badges▲138

   Super cool badges for your projects

   2022 · mdb.pushkaryadav.in · its alternatives →

10. 10
    1000 Gradient Minimal Icons▲163

    A gigantic icon pack that works with gradient designs

    2018 · roundicons.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Shields Creative▲8

    Modern animated badges

    2025 · shields-2-0.vercel.app · its alternatives →

12. 12
    BadgeCraft▲15

    badge, ai, generation, web, html, link

    2025 · openfree-badge.hf.space · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Topmate.io Readme Badge Generator▲96

    Get a markdown badge for your Topmate.io profile

    2022 · topmate-readme-badge.netlify.app · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Gradient Scene Icons▲298

    New icons style that works with any design

    2018 · roundicons.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Gradientify Icons▲261

    Interactive free SVG icons you can colorize as you wish

    2020 · iconshock.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Maker Badge▲125

    Paste one line on each app you ship. Every visitor is now one tap from everything else you've built — and you update the list in one place. Free forever.

    2020 · makerbadge.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Icon 54▲185

    5,000 icons for iOS, android, websites & apps 🚀

    2018 · icon54.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Free 300 Icons▲165

    Download free 300 vector icons by Pixelicons 🚀

    2018 · pixelicons.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Badges▲84

    Join Web3! A new place to engage, connect & build community

    2023 · badges.xyz · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Minimal Dual Tone Icons▲175

    Pixel perfect minimal icons for your apps

    2018 · roundicons.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Flowbite Icons▲148

    430+ free and open-source SVG icons

    2023 · flowbite.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Humbleicons▲68

    A pack of simple, carefully crafted icons for your better UI

    2022 · humbleicons.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Emblemicons▲133

    An open-source free to use library of 1000+ beautiful icons

    2020 · emblemicons.in · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Visitor Badge▲86

    A simple visitor badge for your website

    2021 · visitorbadge.io · its alternatives →

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