# Iconify Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/iconify/ 8 people recommended Iconify in Hacker News comments, 1 had mixed feelings and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 12 months, in 1 thread. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule. 8 of the 8 people who recommend it commented in one thread, “Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons”. **Verdict:** Free open source icon library with a huge collection that people rely on for diagrams and sites. Common caveat: no download-all button. Summary written by Claude from 10 comments. It was written before the November 2026 recount, and 9 of those comments still count. ## Why people recommend it - Primary icon source for long-term users (3 comments in the sample): "iconify has been my primary source of icons for over a year now" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46666188)) "This simply solved icons for me" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46666519)) "Iconify solved icons for us." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46673790)) - Huge library covers almost any icon (2 comments in the sample): "love using the vast library of icons from Iconify in my diagrams where it makes sense" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46667000)) "Use it daily for everything I’ve built. It has icons on basically everything." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46671370)) ## What people warn about - No download-all button (1 comment in the sample): "But where is the "download all" button." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46670050)) ## The badge A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged. ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Iconify", https://hackerapproved.com/p/iconify/ (8 recommend, 1 mixed, 1 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026). Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.