5 Best Sites for Free Icons – Web, Android & iOS
Best Sites for Free Icons – Web,Android & iOS or any other media use, today we will be counting our favourite picks and list out which is more suitable for use. All the website listed in here are based on our usage and our own opinion, so lets begin with the list.
Here are some key criteria we notice that users and developers are very focused on, all the website mentioned offer Free, Paid and Subscription packs based on this the site might have huge and high quality of libraries. Depending upon your usage it matters a lot.
So we will Divide into segments and only talk about the Free Icon Packs and not paid.
Here are Some Best Sites for Free Icons – Website, Android & iOS
1.Flaticon
So, one the most popular among the web designer is the Flaticon it has more than 4 Million vectors to choose from, making it the most used among designers who have minimal designs.
Flaticon – Visit the site
The largest database of free icons available in PNG, SVG, EPS, PSD and BASE 64 formats.
Required: Free Usage
Flaticon License
Free for personal and commercial purpose with attribution. Check more on the site
So whats, Attribution you might ask, it’s a means for supporting the website by linking its url (link of the site) and creator of the icon pack, in-order to bring in other users to drive traffic to the site.
We can download basic icons without sign in but for the whole pack and other formats, it requires for users to sign in to download those packs.
Perks: Earn Money
If you are designer who can create awesome icons and other vectors you can contribute and based on downloads you earn with their royalty program.
Paid:
For the first year it cost 6.99 EUR / Month and (3.74 EUR/month) Billed annually for 44.99 EUR and for after the first year the rates increase to 9.99 EUR / Month or 89.99 EUR / Year
If you are someone who uses alot of icons and vectors, it’s well worth it in my opinion.
2.ICONFINDER
ICONFINDER is also one the popular vectors site which contain lot of other useful content based icons it’s also very much similar to the above site which requires user to give attribution to use the free icons.
ICONFINDER – Visit the site
Required: Attribution
It’s used under creative common license 3.0 and require you to link where ever you use it
Perks: Can become a contributor and earn money
Paid:
What i don’t like about this site is it’s paid plans its too expensive the pay as you go plan cost 2$ per icon.
The pro plans start 9$ for 10 icons per month / monthly or 19$ for 50 icons per month which is too expensive for just icons in my opinion.
The unlimited plan costs 49$ / month which is useful for big corporations as it allows upto 25 members to use.
3.ICONS8
ICONS8 is one the new sites which is focused on new design trends and some quality content for its users, it helps make websites user-friendly and have a good UI/UX experience – well its subjected to the designer as well.
ICONS8 also have some interesting things such as editing the icon pack and importing directly to sketch, other also do offer these services but, requires paid version not for ICONS8 as users can directly edit icons like change stroke, color, padding or style etc.
ICONS8 – visit the site
Required: Attribution
It require you to link where ever you use it, only in limited resolution and formats.
Perks: Can become a contributor and earn money
Pricing:
It has a very robust and different style of pricing as it also includes images & illustrations as well, check for your suitable plan – click here
4.Freeicons
Freeicons.io has become a new fresh icon pack site, with its fresh user friendly design it certainly has appealing to the creators & developers.
Freeicons – Visit the site
Its solely run by the designer community and unlike other sites they dont offer any pricing solution and just rely on ads and attribution if you’re using icons from them.
Perks: Can contribute and earn money
Pricing: Doesn’t have any
5. Font Awesome
Coming to the final and most trusted site for most web builders and website designers comes Font Awesome.com, It’s not just a site for downloading icons but its widely used for the creator and developers.
Font Awesome – Visit the site
Required:
It required to embed attribution of Font Awesome to your website.
Pricing:
It has different and unique pricing solution based on pageview of the website – have a look
Now coming to Google’s offering which is a standard material design but users dont have to link or give any attribution. Best sites for free icons, no hassle of many options and suited for developer.
Material.io
Doesn’t require to link attributions.
Other Popular site widely used in the market
Freepik.com
Streamlineicons.com
Iconstore.co
Pngtree.com
Uxwing.com
Doesn’t require to link attributions
So that’s about the best sites for free icons, there more few hidden gems on the rise but that for later story. This can be said the best sites for free icons as of now.
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