Iconify
Icon library in Developer tools
Free open source icon library with a huge collection that people rely on for diagrams and sites. Common caveat: no download-all button.
Free open source icon library with a huge collection that people rely on for diagrams and sites. Common caveat: no download-all button.
11 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 10
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 91%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 10 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 10 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Huge library covers almost any icon
“love using the vast library of icons from Iconify in my diagrams where it makes sense”
Comment from 18 Jan 2026 in “Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons” “Use it daily for everything I've built. It has icons on basically everything.”
Comment from 18 Jan 2026 in “Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons” Primary icon source for long-term users
“iconify has been my primary source of icons for over a year now”
Comment from 18 Jan 2026 in “Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons” “This simply solved icons for me”
Comment from 18 Jan 2026 in “Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons” “Iconify solved icons for us.”
Comment from 19 Jan 2026 in “Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
No download-all button
“But where is the "download all" button.”
Comment from 18 Jan 2026 in “Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons”
What people recommend instead
The same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IconifyThis page | 10 | 1 | 91% | 1 | — | — |
| Lucide Animated Icons for Vue | 5 | 0 | 100% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
10 of the 11 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“It's used by 99% of slop websites because it's the go to of any LLM if not prompted to do otherwise.”
“Iconify solved icons for us.”
“Use it daily for everything I've built. It has icons on basically everything.”
“But where is the "download all" button.”
“This is a brilliant library, thanks so much for sharing it”
“the result turned wonderful (icons wise)”
“love using the vast library of icons from Iconify in my diagrams where it makes sense”
“This simply solved icons for me”
“some of these SVGs are nicely animated and can be searched for”
“iconify has been my primary source of icons for over a year now”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.