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Free Favicon Generator (ICO, PNG, Apple Touch)

Easily create a complete set of favicons for your website from a single image. Generates ICO, PNG, and Apple Touch Icon formats, plus the necessary HTML code.

1. Upload Your Image

2. Generated Favicon Package

Your generated favicons will appear here.

3. Add HTML to your Site

What is a Favicon and Why Does It Matter?

A Small Icon with a Huge Impact on Branding and User Experience

A favicon (short for "favorite icon") is the small, iconic image that represents your website in browser tabs, bookmarks, and mobile home screens. While tiny, a favicon is a critical element of your brand's digital identity. It acts as a visual anchor, helping users quickly identify your site among a sea of open tabs and saved links. A professional, high-quality favicon signals attention to detail and enhances your site's credibility, while a missing or generic one can make a site feel incomplete.

This free favicon generator is designed to simplify the process of creating a complete, modern favicon package. Instead of manually creating dozens of different sizes and formats, you can upload a single image and instantly generate everything you need for universal browser and device compatibility, all while keeping your assets secure on your own computer.

How to Use the Favicon Generator

A simple step-by-step guide to creating and implementing your favicon package.

  1. Upload Your Source Image: Click the upload area and select a high-resolution, square image. A 512x512 pixel PNG with a transparent background works best. Our tool operates entirely in your browser, so your logo is never sent to our servers.
  2. Generate the Favicons: Click the "Generate Favicons" button. Our tool will instantly create multiple versions of your icon, including the traditional favicon.ico, various PNG sizes for modern browsers, and the essential apple-touch-icon.png for iOS devices.
  3. Download the Complete Package: Click "Download All" to get a single .zip file containing all your generated icons and the site.webmanifest file for Android devices.
  4. Implement on Your Website: Unzip the downloaded package and upload all the files to the root directory of your website. Then, copy the generated HTML code and paste it into the <head> section of your site's HTML to ensure all browsers find the correct icon.

The Modern Favicon Package Explained

One image is not enough. Here's what our generator creates and why you need it.

favicon.ico

The classic. This file is the ultimate fallback for older browsers and some web crawlers. Our generator includes 16x16, 32x32, and 48x48 sizes within this single file.

PNG Favicons (32x32 & 16x16)

Modern browsers prefer these. They offer high-quality transparency and are the standard for browser tabs and bookmarks lists.

apple-touch-icon.png (180x180)

Absolutely essential for mobile users. When someone saves your site to their home screen on an iPhone or iPad, this is the icon that gets used. Without it, iOS shows a generic screenshot of your page.

Android Chrome Icons (192x192 & 512x512)

Used by Android devices when a user adds your site to their home screen. These are referenced in the `site.webmanifest` file and are key for a good Progressive Web App (PWA) experience.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions