Designing an app and looking for some free icon sets that you can use on iOS and Android? Look no further. We’ve curated this list of some generic yet stylish and current icon sets that will make super additions to any of your app designs. Not only can you use the icons on iOS and Android, but they’re also simple and streamlined enough that they’ll look great on the small viewport of a mobile device, which is an important consideration when choosing icons for your mobile projects. To check out these versatile and super useful icon sets for yourself, see the list below!
Let’s get a little bit meta on this first icon set…if you’re using these icons in a mobile app designs, then your users will be looking at icons of phones while they’re on a phone. Totally meta. This great free resource comes with a lot of different representations of mobile devices, but also comes with icons that represent phone-adjacent things as well, such as headphones, wall chargers, and even USB cords.
2. Freepik Icons
Freepik Icons is a great resource for designers looking to add some flair and customization to their app designs. They offer an extensive free library of icons suitable for both commercial and personal use. With over 10 million icons available, including 17,000 user interface icons in different styles such as PNG and SVG, Freepik has one of the biggest free icon libraries online.
3. Flaticon
Flaticon is another popular and widely used resource for free icons, offering more than 11.9M vector icons and stickers in a variety of categories such as general icons, interface icons, animated icons, and stickers. What sets Flaticon apart from other icon libraries is the availability of multiple file formats, including PNG, SVG, EPS, PSD, and CSS. Additionally, Flaticon offers its own editor, allowing users to customize and edit icons to fit the needs of their app designs.
This is a great set of simple icons that are perfect for general use. The design is minimalist and simple, so they’ll look great on mobile devices, and the range of different types of icons is wide. There are some basic emojis, a play button, and eye, a trashcan, a location marker, and so much more. You’ll be sure to find at least a handful of these relevant to almost any app.
If the app you’re designing has anything to do with work, stationary, offices, writing, libraries, or anything that could be considered work or study in any way, this free icon set is perfect for you. Again, this set has a simple and minimalist design and the icons are sure to render beautifully on any mobile device.
6. Icons8
Discovering this versatile, comprehensive icon set is kind of like discovering gold for web designers and front end developers. The set comes with 10,000 (yes, that is ten THOUSAND) line icons that can be downloaded in any format and any color (even custom colors!) within seconds. Basically, this is a huge deal. Types of icons range from things like social media icons, to birthday cakes, to music notes, to chocolate chip cookies…pretty much anything you could ever imagine needing an icon representation of is covered — from practical to completely useless. If you don’t see an icon you’re looking for, you can request it free of charge.
7. Multimedia Pioneers Icon Sets
If you’re creating an app having to do with film, photography, music, or any other multimedia arts, this simple, colored icon set is perfect for your project.
This cool little icon set is full of mini wireframes and web pages and sample user experiences to add to your project. With so many different page layout option designs (there’s even a page with a 404 error — how cool?), you’ll be sure to find something that suits the needs of your project. Perfect for apps having to do with UI.
This free set of 100 general purpose and general use icons is actually part of a much larger set, but to get the full collection you have to pay. However, the icon options that are available for free will surely go a long way and have a wide range in terms of subject matter.
The final icon collection in our list is another simple, general purpose one. The icons in this set are modeled after those you see in iOS — the toggles, the paper airplane, the location marker, the clock, etc. If you’re developing an iPhone app, this collection is a great way to make your app look as though its seamlessly part of iOS.