The city where 375,000 icons live. On your Mac. Fully offline.
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Stop screenshotting icons from websites. Stop hunting through browser tabs for "that one arrow." Iconopolis puts the entire open-source icon universe on your Mac: every set from the Iconify project, searchable in milliseconds, and ready to land in PowerPoint, Keynote, Figma, Slack, or your code editor with one drag, one copy, or one keystroke.
No account. No subscription. No internet after the first launch. Just icons, instantly.
- 375,440 icons from 240 open-source sets: Material Design, Tabler, Lucide, Phosphor, Font Awesome, all the emoji sets, flags, brand logos, and more.
- Search that understands you: multiple words in any order, plus a built-in synonym brain ("mailbox" also finds mail and envelope icons; "human" also finds person and user).
- ⌘⇧I from inside any app opens a Spotlight-style panel: type, hit Enter, the icon is on your clipboard.
- Paste like a native: copied icons arrive in PowerPoint as real scalable vectors, not blurry bitmaps. Drag-and-drop delivers an actual SVG or PNG file anywhere you drop it.
- Make it yours before it leaves the app: recolor any single-color icon, add padding, put it on a circle or rounded-square tile in any color. Slide-ready assets in three clicks.
- Copy as code: SVG markup, a ready React component, HTML img, CSS background, or a raw data URI.
- Favorites and per-project collections with one-click folder export of a whole collection.
- License transparency built in: every set shows its exact license (MIT, Apache 2.0, CC BY...) and author, with a Copy Credit Line button for the sets that require attribution.
One query sweeps all 240 sets. Results are ranked by exact name match first, and the bottom bar controls color, SVG/PNG format, PNG size, and grid zoom at all times.
Every set has its own room: a persistent header with the icon count, the license (linked to its full text), and the author. You always know exactly what you are allowed to build with.
Pick a color, a background shape, and padding. The preview shows exactly what will be copied, dragged, or saved. When you choose a light icon color, the grid automatically switches to dark tiles so white icons never disappear.
Press ⌘⇧I anywhere on your Mac. Arrow keys choose, Enter copies, Esc dismisses, and you can drag straight out of the panel. Iconopolis lives in your menu bar even with the main window closed.
Star your daily icons, group the rest into per-project collections, sort them by recency or name, and export a whole collection to a folder in one click. Bulk management included.
A one-page welcome explains everything on first launch, including the licensing story in plain language.
Option 1 (recommended): download the DMG from Releases, open it, and drag Iconopolis to Applications.
On first open, macOS will warn about an unidentified developer (the app is not notarized yet). Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway. This is needed once.
On first launch the app downloads the icon collection (about 120 MB) from the npm registry, builds its search index, and is fully offline from then on.
Option 2: run from source
git clone https://github.com/karagos/iconopolis.git
cd iconopolis
npm install
node node_modules/electron/install.js
npx electron .Requires Node 18+ on macOS (Apple Silicon).
The Iconopolis app is MIT licensed. The icons are not mine: they come from the Iconify project and hundreds of generous designers, and every set keeps its own open-source license. Most (MIT, Apache 2.0, ISC) allow any use including commercial. Some, like CC BY, require crediting the author, which is why every icon in the app shows its license and has a Copy Credit Line button. Please honor them; they are the reason a tool like this can exist at all.
Built by Stefanos Karagos (CAIO Group) together with Claude. Icon data by the Iconify project and the individual set authors.
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