Favicon Generator

Turn any logo or image into a complete favicon set: a multi-size favicon.ico, an apple-touch-icon, Android/web app icons and a ready-to-paste HTML snippet. Choose a square, rounded or circle shape, add padding or a background color, and download the whole package as a ZIP. Everything is generated locally in your browser — your image is never uploaded.

Privacy-first: every image is processed locally in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, stored or transmitted to any server.

PixelVault’s favicon generator turns any image into a complete set of website and app icons without uploading anything. Most “favicon generator” sites ask you to send your logo to their servers before you get a single icon back. Here, every file — the multi-resolution favicon.ico, the PNG icons and the manifest — is produced right inside your browser, so your brand art never leaves your device.

A modern site needs more than one icon. Browsers read a small favicon.ico for the address bar and tabs, iOS wants a 180×180 apple-touch-icon for the home screen, and Android and PWAs use 192 and 512px PNGs referenced from a web manifest. PixelVault builds all of them at once from a single source image and hands you a ready-to-paste HTML snippet so wiring them up takes seconds.

You control how the icon looks. Keep it a plain square, round the corners, or crop it to a circle; add padding so a wordmark isn’t jammed against the edge; and pick a transparent or solid background. A live preview shows the result at real favicon sizes — including a mock browser tab — so you know exactly what visitors will see before you download.

How it works

When you add an image, the browser decodes it into memory and PixelVault redraws it onto square canvases at each icon size, applying your chosen shape mask, padding and background. Each canvas is encoded to PNG with the browser’s built-in encoder, and the 16, 32 and 48px PNGs are wrapped into a single favicon.ico (the widely supported PNG-in-ICO container). SVG logos are rasterized locally at high resolution first, so the icons stay crisp.

Why local processing matters

Generating icons locally means your logo — often unreleased branding — is never transmitted, stored or logged by a third-party service. It is also instant: there is no upload, no queue and no download round-trip, and it keeps working offline once the page has loaded. What you download is exactly what your browser produced, with nothing added.

Supported formats

  • ICO — Multi-resolution favicon.ico (16/32/48px) for tabs and the address bar.
  • PNG — Apple-touch-icon (180px) and Android/PWA icons (192 & 512px).
  • SVG — Input only — vector logos are rasterized locally for the crispest icons.
  • JPG / WebP — Accepted as source images alongside PNG.

Common use cases

  • Create a favicon.ico and app icons for a new website or landing page.
  • Convert a PNG or SVG logo to a proper multi-size ICO file.
  • Generate an apple-touch-icon and web-manifest icons for a PWA.
  • Refresh a brand’s favicon set without handing the logo to an online service.

Frequently asked questions

Is my image uploaded to make the favicon?
No. The favicon.ico, PNG icons and manifest are all generated locally in your browser using the Canvas API. Your image never leaves your device.
What sizes and files do I get?
A multi-resolution favicon.ico (16, 32 and 48px), PNG icons at 16, 32, 48, 180 (apple-touch-icon), 192 and 512px, a site.webmanifest, and an HTML snippet to paste into your <head>.
Can I convert a PNG or SVG to an ICO?
Yes. Drop in a PNG, JPG, SVG or WebP and download a real favicon.ico. SVG logos are rasterized locally at high resolution first.
What image works best?
A square image with a simple, high-contrast logo. Non-square images are center-cropped to fit; use the padding and shape controls to frame it the way you want.
How do I install the favicon?
Unzip the package into your site’s root folder and paste the provided HTML snippet into the <head> of your pages. The favicon.ico is picked up automatically by most browsers.