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Icon Editor to Make Icons for Windows
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Icon Editor to Make Icons

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Create High-Quality Icons for Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS, Android, web

Icon editor IconLover 5.48 is a powerful, yet easy to use icon editor for making your own icons for any operating system, including Windows, Mac OS, *NIX, Android and iOS. It creates native Windows icons (ICO format) of all sizes, up to 768x768 used in Windows 10, and native MacOS icons (ICNS format) up to 1024x1024 pixels (this size is used in the latest Mac OS X versions). UNIX/Linux, Android and iOS use icons in PNG format which is fully supported by IconLover - you can create icons in this format from scratch or convert the existing Windows and Mac OS icons to PNG.

Numerous advanced features including support for variable transparency, built-in drop shadow, smoothing, roll, mirror and other effects, support for multi-layer images, ability to import and export a variety of image formats and batch processing of icons make IconLover the tool of choice for many professional icon designers.

Create and Edit Animated GIFs

IconLover features native support for GIF animation. You can use this icon software to create animated images, banners and buttons in almost no time.

Create and Edit Bitmap Images for Web and Other Uses

IconLover can also be used for creating and editing bitmap images in a variety of formats: BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TGA, TIFF etc. It supports transparency and a full range of other format-specific features.

Support for Windows compressed PNG Icons

IconLover fully supports the compressed PNG format recommended for 256x256 icons in Windows Vista/7/8/10. It helps reduce the overall size of the file without sacrificing image quality and preserves alpha channel transparency.

Support for large Windows 10 Icons

IconLover fully supports new 512x512 and 768x768 Windows 10 application icons.

Automatically Make Icons from Images

Some designers prefer working with familiar software and then import the resulting image to IconLover and convert it to icons. With support for a variety of image formats, including Adobe Photoshop (PSD), Adobe Illustrator (AI), SVG, PDF, IconLover enables icon designers easily convert images to icons.

Import Vector Images

IconLover allows importing vector images in SVG, AI and PDF formats. You can automatically render these vector images into raster icons of any size. The algorithm is specifically optimized for small graphics use, producing great-looking icons in all resolutions. The importing works via installed Inkscape.

Export Icon to Bitmap Images

You can also use IconLover to open Windows and Mac OS icon files (ICO, ICNS) and export them to common bitmap formats for use on a website, blog, application splash-screen etc.

Convert Icons between Windows and Mac OS

Full support for Windows (ICO) and Mac OS (ICNS) icon formats enables designers to use IconLover for easy conversion of icons between these operating systems. You can open a Mac OS icon in this icon software and save it for use on a Windows PC, and vice versa.

Design and Explore Android Apps

In addition to vector import and super-size Mac OS X icons, we added support for importing graphics from Android APK files, giving you direct access to icons used in Android apps. You can now also choose icon sizes that are specific to Android, iOS and Mac OS X from the list instead of typing them by hand every time.

Create Indy Sprites

IconLover makes working with bitmap and PNG masks easier. We added the ability to import, export and apply masks to images. Among other applications, masking support makes it easier making sprites for Indy games.

With IconLover, you can:
  • Manage icons, static and animated cursors, icon and cursor libraries and image lists
  • Create and edit smooth semi-transparent icons, static and animated cursors for Windows
  • Create and edit icons in standard and custom sizes, with color depth up to 32-bit True Color
  • Create and edit animated GIF images
  • Make stylish icons from your images
  • Paint images with gradients and fills
  • Create multi-layer images
  • Modify images with drop shadow, opacity, smoothing, negative, grayscale, colorization, rotation, roll and mirror, round corners effects
  • Merge, subtract, overlay images
  • Import and export ICO, BMP, JPEG, ANI, CUR, GIF, PNG, TGA, TIFF, WMF, WBMP, XPM, XBM and Adobe Photoshop PSD image formats
  • Export base64 PNG images
  • Import AI, PDF, SVG vector images when Inkscape is installed
  • Import Mac OS icons from ICNS and RSRC files
  • Make icons in ICNS format for Mac OS
  • Make icons for iOS 7
  • Make dialog icons for Android with inner shadow effect
  • Manage icon libraries for better and more efficient image storage
  • Extract icons from Windows executables, libraries and animated cursor files, ZIP and RAR archives
  • Export icon captions to text files
  • Download icons from the Internet
  • Modify icons inside executables
  • Search in folders for icons and cursors
  • Import graphics from Android APK files
  • Convert or apply effects to multiple icons at once
  • Customize desktop and folder icons
  • Apply bitmap and PNG masks for indy sprites
System requirements: Windows PC.

No internet activation required.

Trial limitations: 30-day trial period, nag-screen.

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Download icon editor (11.6 MB):  exe   zip

Uninstalling the program

Our software has a fully Windows compliant uninstall procedure, so you can uninstall it from the Windows Control Panel. You can also do it using the Uninstall utility in IconLover folder.

To do this using Windows 10, right-click the Start button and click Control Panel. Go to Programs and Features (if your Control Panel is in Category view, go to Uninstall a Program). Find the program you want to uninstall, click it to select it, and then click Uninstall. You'll see a pop-up window asking if you're sure you want to uninstall this program, click Yes and click through the uninstall wizard, if applicable.

Icon editor history
 2019-Mar-23 IconLover 5.48
Improved: Support for Mac OS icons
Improved: Support for 64-bit DLL and EXE files
 2018-Sep-17 IconLover 5.47
Fixed: Problems with antivirus software
 2017-Jan-20 IconLover 5.46
Added: Portable mode
 2016-Jul-28 IconLover 5.45
Improved: Ability to import PNG8 images with alpha channel
Added: Ability to import icons from 64-bit DLLs
 2016-Jul-23 IconLover 5.44
Fixed: Bugs within XBM export
Fixed: Bugs in resizing methods
 2016-Jan-28 IconLover 5.43
Fixed: Small bugs
 2015-May-14 IconLover 5.42
Added: Ability to set parameters for "Disabled Image" effect
 2015-May-06 IconLover 5.41
Added: Ability to create 768x768 icons for Windows 10
Added: Support for PNG-encoded 1024x1024 Mac OS X icons
Added: Full current file path in a program title
 2015-Apr-06 IconLover 5.40
Added: Ability to export base64 PNG images to clipboard
 2014-Dec-30 IconLover 5.39
Fixed: Small bugs with layers
 2013-Dec-16 IconLover 5.38
Fixed: Small bugs
Fixed: Problems with Windows UAC
 2013-Oct-29 IconLover 5.37
Added: Ability to extract icons from Android APK files
Added: Merging, overlaying, subtracting image operations
Added: Mask functions
Added: Center lines in the edit area
Modified: Crop function is added into toolbars
 2013-Oct-07 IconLover 5.36
Added: Support for SVG, AI, PDF (Inkscape is required)
Added: Support for 1024x1024 Mac OS X icons
Added: Android icon formats
Added: iOS 7 icon formats
Added: Ability to open files in a single instance
Added: "Close All Files" function
 2013-Jun-21 IconLover 5.35
Added: Inner Shadow effect
 2013-Feb-15 IconLover 5.34
Added: Ability to export icon captions to text files for icon collections
 2012-Dec-19 IconLover 5.33
Improved: Compatibility with Windows 8
 2012-Sep-26 IconLover 5.32
Added: Round Corners effect
 2012-Jul-09 IconLover 5.31
Updated: Splash screen
 2011-Dec-06 IconLover 5.30
Changed: Registration system
 2011-Nov-11 IconLover 5.20
Added: Canvas size operation for icon libraries
Added: Opacity Inversion effect
Added: Monochrome effect
 2011-Jun-03 IconLover 5.18
Added: Ability to export 24-bit bitmaps and other formats for development tools
 2011-Feb-15 IconLover 5.17
Updated: Icon download database
 2010-Nov-12 IconLover 5.16
Improved: Image test function
Improved: Support for large ICNS icons
 2010-Jun-29 IconLover 5.15
Updated: File association dialog
 2010-May-03 IconLover 5.14
Updated: Icon download database
 2010-Apr-20 IconLover 5.13
Modified: "Save as" button added into the program toolbar
 2010-Mar-03 IconLover 5.12
Added: Compatibility with 64-bit Windows
 2010-Feb-15 IconLover 5.11
Added: Ability to import images from folder with subfolders
 2009-Dec-10 IconLover 5.10
Added: Ability to save icons in ICNS format for Mac OS
 2009-Aug-17 IconLover 5.0
Added: Windows 7 support
Added: Aqua effect
Added: Ability to combining multiple images into a single icon
Added: Ability to change the color of background in a library mode
 2009-Feb-19 IconLover 4.27
Added: Ability to print icons with grid
Fixed: Some bugs with icon search
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 2008-Nov-04 IconLover 4.26
Added: Ability to import Mac icons into icon libraries
 2008-Sep-23 IconLover 4.25
Added: Ability to work with large images inside imagelists
 2008-Sep-01 IconLover 4.24
Added: New icon samples
 2008-May-26 IconLover 4.23
Added: Hot and Circle Mask effects
 2008-Feb-26 IconLover 4.22
Improved: Print functions
Improved: Undo functions
 2008-Jan-24 IconLover 4.21
Fixed: Small bugs
 2007-Nov-22 IconLover 4.2
Added: Ability to edit 16-bit and 32-bit ICL files
 2007-Oct-02 IconLover 4.18
Added: Ability to edit 16-bit ICL files under Windows Vista


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