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8 honest comparisons

with icons vs the rest

Side-by-side comparisons of with icons and the most popular icon sets, with the real icons next to each other, plain-English pros and cons, prices and licences checked against official sources.

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Comparisons · 11 min read

with icons vs Font Awesome

with icons vs Font Awesome in plain English: the real icons side by side, price, licence, free styles, pros and cons, and which set fits your site or slides.
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with icons vs Hugeicons

with icons vs Hugeicons in plain English: the real icons side by side, free icon counts, Pro prices, MIT licences, pros and cons, and which set fits you.
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Comparisons · 10 min read

with icons vs Lucide

with icons vs Lucide with the real icons side by side: 2px vs 1.75px lines, one style vs 20, ISC vs MIT, shadcn/ui, honest pros and cons, and when to switch.
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with icons vs Material Symbols

with icons vs Google’s Material Symbols: the real icons side by side, honest pros and cons, styles, the variable font, licences, and which one suits you.
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Comparisons · 11 min read

with icons vs Heroicons

with icons vs Heroicons with the real icons side by side: 316 icons in four sizes vs 500 in 20 styles, MIT licences, Tailwind CSS, and honest pros and cons.
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with icons vs Phosphor

with icons vs Phosphor, explained simply: six weights vs 20 styles, about 1,500 vs 500 icons, real icons side by side, pros and cons, and which to pick.
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with icons vs Tabler Icons

with icons vs Tabler Icons in plain English: 6,200+ outline and filled icons vs 500 icons in 20 styles, real icons side by side, pros and cons, and which to pick.
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with icons vs Flaticon

with icons vs Flaticon for non-designers: honest pros and cons, what Flaticon attribution means in slides and Canva, Premium pricing, and no-credit options.

At a glance

ComparisonThe short answer
with icons vs Font AwesomePick Font Awesome if you need a huge catalogue, brand logos (GitHub, Visa, Slack) or you already pay for Pro.
with icons vs HugeiconsPick Hugeicons if you want the biggest free catalogue in a single, friendly outline style: over 6,000 Stroke Rounded icons under MIT.
with icons vs LucideStay with Lucide if one clean outline style is all you need: it has over 1,600 icons, packages for almost every framework, and it is the default in shadcn/ui.
with icons vs Material SymbolsPick Material Symbols if your app follows Google’s Material Design or Android, or you need more than 2,500 icons from one maker.
with icons vs HeroiconsPick Heroicons if you build with Tailwind CSS and want icons hand-tuned for very small sizes: 316 icons in Outline, Solid, Mini (20px) and Micro (16px).
with icons vs PhosphorPick Phosphor if you want about 1,500 icons, each in six weights (Thin, Light, Regular, Bold, Fill, Duotone), and official packages for Flutter and SwiftUI as well as the web.
with icons vs Tabler IconsPick Tabler Icons if you need breadth: over 6,200 free icons (outline plus filled versions), with ready packages for most frameworks.
with icons vs FlaticonPick Flaticon if you need a very specific or illustrated icon: it has over 18 million icons and stickers from many artists.