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Should I use Iconify Design?

All popular icon sets, one framework - iconify.design

Worth it. Buy if you build websites or apps and need icons — it's free, open source, and aggregates 300,000+ icons. Skip it if you need vendor support, SLAs, or a paid product with a company behind it.

Confidence

Medium. Based on 30+ public sources; mostly official pages and directory/bookmark listings — few in-depth user reviews, so confidence is medium.

Ratings

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Feature depth
  • Support qualityNo support evidence in sources
  • Security posture

Pricing

$0

Free (open source)

ModelNot disclosed
Monthly feesNot disclosed
HardwareNot disclosed
Free tierYes

Best for

  • Web and app developers
  • Designers wanting one icon search
  • Cost-sensitive side projects
  • Teams avoiding icon vendor lock-in

Not for

  • Anyone needing vendor support or SLAs
  • Buyers wanting a paid product with a company behind it
  • Overkill if you need just 10 icons from one set
  • Non-technical users who just want PNG downloads

Gotchas - check before you buy

medium

Licensing varies by package: MIT, Apache 2.0, GPL 2.0 — verify before shipping commercially

medium

Each icon set keeps its own license; check the specific set you use

low

No security page; you rely on community maintenance, not a vendor

low

Guess: pulling icons via public API/CDN in production adds an external dependency

Pros and cons

Pros

  • 300,000+ open source vector icons in one place
  • 150+ icon sets searchable from a single interface
  • Mostly MIT licensed — free including commercial use
  • One unified framework works with any icon library
  • Icons validated, cleaned, converted to one JSON format

Cons

  • No dedicated security page found
  • Open source project, not a company — no paid support
  • Some older packages use Apache 2.0 and/or GPL 2.0
  • Individual icon sets carry their own separate licenses

Sources & method

Analyzed 9/20/2026 - 10 sources - No known vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.

official x4review x5security x1

Key stats

  • Value for money: 5/5

    Rating

  • $0

    Starting price

  • 10

    Sources

  • Analyzed

  • Value for money: 5/5. Free and open source
  • Ease of use: 4/5. Unified search across 150+ sets
  • Feature depth: 5/5. 300k icons, one framework, any library
  • Support quality. No support evidence in sources
  • Security posture: 3/5. Open source but no security page
  • 300,000+ Total icons open source vector icons
  • 150+ Icon sets Material, Feather, FontAwesome and more
  • Free Price open source project
  • MIT License some older packages Apache 2.0 / GPL 2.0

Pricing

Free (open source)

$0

  • All 300,000+ icons
  • 150+ icon sets
  • MIT-licensed core framework

Security

No known vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.

What users say

Dev blogs and bookmark communities consistently recommend Iconify as the fastest way to search and use every major open source icon set.

“It's a unified search interface for 200k+ open source icons from 150+ sets (Material Design, Feather, FontAwesome, emoji sets, etc.).”
OEGlobal Connect forum
“Iconify provides a massive, searchable library of open-source SVG icon sets that designers and developers can instantly integrate into any web”
UBOS blog
“Iconify is an open source project with different parts using MIT, Apache 2.0, and/or GPL 2.0 licenses.”
daily.dev
Full analysis

Based on 30+ public sources; mostly official pages and directory/bookmark listings — few in-depth user reviews, so confidence is medium.

Free, open-source aggregator of 300k+ icons across 150+ sets. Easy yes for web work; just check per-set licenses.

Methodology

Based on 30+ public sources; mostly official pages and directory/bookmark listings — few in-depth user reviews, so confidence is medium.

Sources

  1. Iconify Design official siteiconify.design
    official
  2. Iconify security page (not found)iconify.design
    security
  3. Iconify icon sets in JSON formatgithub.com
    official
  4. iconify/iconify on npmnpmjs.com
    official
  5. iconify-icon CDN by jsDelivrjsdelivr.com
    official
  6. Iconify — open source icon collection (OEGlobal)connect.oeglobal.org
    review
  7. Iconify Icon Sets: A Comprehensive Free SVG Library (UBOS)ubos.tech
    review
  8. daily.dev — Iconify license overviewdaily.dev
    review
  9. iconify usage notes (Japanese dev blog)madogiwa0124.hatenablog.com
    review
  10. Free icon resource roundup (CSDN)blog.csdn.net
    review

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