What are Favicons?

Favicons are small icons associated with websites, displayed in the browser address bar, tabs, and bookmarks. They serve as visual identifiers for websites, aiding user recognition and enhancing the overall browsing experience.

The favicon, alternatively called the “site icon” or “app icon,” is an image file that represents your website or application.

What are App Icons?

Application icons serve as the clickable images when you launch an application. The advent of newer phones with higher-resolution screens demands new, sharp high-resolution app icons. To cater to older phones with lower resolutions, developers create various sizes of the same image. This icon challenge extends across all smartphones, including iPhones and Androids, as well as tablets like iPads.

What does this tool do?

Newer desktop internet browsers like Chrome or Firefox can use small images called favicons in different formats. But Internet Explorer (IE) is a bit picky and needs favicons in a special ICO format. Our Free Favicon Generator is a handy online tool that helps you change common image files like GIF, PNG, JPEG, SVG and WebP into the right format (ICO) for Internet Explorer. This way, your favicon works well on all kinds of web browsers.

Generate a personalized favicon package designed for all browsers and devices, then add it to your website.

Using The Generated Favicon

Once you’ve created a favicon using this tool, save it in your website’s main folder. Next, add the provided code to the head section of your HTML document.

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">