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Free Online Favicon Generator
Upload one image to generate a full favicon.ico and every standard web app icon size — for browser tabs, iOS home screens, and Android / PWA manifests — ready to download individually. It helps site owners turn an image into browser-tab icons, shortcut icons, and app-ready favicon assets.
Why every site needs a proper favicon set
A favicon is one of the smallest assets on a site but shows up everywhere: browser tabs, bookmark bars, browser history, iOS and Android home-screen shortcuts, and PWA app switchers. Each of those surfaces requests a different size and sometimes a different file format, and a missing or wrong-sized icon either falls back to a generic placeholder or gets blurrily scaled by the browser. Generating the full set from one source image up front avoids having to revisit this later for every new platform a site needs to support.
How to use this generator
Upload a source image — ideally square, at least 512x512 pixels — and this tool immediately renders every standard size using your browser's Canvas API, plus a genuine multi-resolution favicon.ico bundling the 16x16, 32x32, and 48x48 versions together. Download each file individually and drop the provided HTML snippet into your site's <head>.
Common use cases
- Generating a complete icon set for a new website or app from a single logo file
- Replacing a low-resolution or missing favicon that renders blurry in browser tabs
- Producing the apple-touch-icon and Android/PWA manifest icons needed for a home-screen install prompt
- Quickly re-exporting icons after a logo redesign without opening an image editor
Every resize and the .ico packaging happen locally in your browser — the image you upload is never sent to a server.
How to use Favicon Generator for related tasks
Choose a source image, generate the icon outputs, and verify transparent edges and small-size legibility before adding the files to your site.
Related tools: Image Resizer / Cropper, Meta Tag / Open Graph Preview.
Frequently asked questions
Why do I need so many different icon sizes?
Different platforms request different sizes: browser tabs typically use 16x16 or 32x32, iOS home-screen shortcuts use a 180x180 Apple touch icon, and Android/PWA manifests reference 192x192 and 512x512 versions. Providing all of them means your icon looks correct everywhere instead of being awkwardly scaled by the browser.
What exactly is inside the generated favicon.ico?
It bundles the 16x16, 32x32, and 48x48 PNG versions of your image into a single multi-resolution .ico file — the classic format browsers and operating systems have looked for at the site root since long before PNG favicons were supported everywhere.
Will a non-square image look distorted?
No — a centered square crop is taken from your source image before scaling, so a rectangular photo is cropped to its centered square rather than being squeezed to fit, which would distort it.
Is my image uploaded to a server to generate these?
No. Every resize and the .ico file itself are generated entirely in your browser using the Canvas API — the source image never leaves your device.
What image makes a good favicon?
Use a simple high-contrast mark that remains recognizable at 16px; complex photos and tiny text usually disappear at browser-tab size.