CandyIcons vs IconScout AI Icon Generator

CandyIcons is a web app for browsing app icons and generating new ones from descriptions. Users choose colors and styles, then create icons using more than 15 premade styles and over 1,000 presets. Generated output is a 1024×1024 PNG; SVG export is unavailable. The service includes iOS and macOS app icon assets aligned with Apple’s design guidelines, plus free tools for those assets and favicons. A free plan provides 15 generations per month. One-time packs cost $15 as a one-time purchase for 15 credits, $25, paid once for 50 credits, or $45, paid once for 120 credits. Lifetime costs $49, paid once and provides 40 credits per month. Each credit generates one image, and purchased credits do not expire. Batch generation and commercial use are supported. The FAQ says purchased or generated icons carry exclusive ownership and unlimited usage rights, including modification, resale, redistribution, or giving them away. Icons are stored on US servers operated by third-party partners, with private access links sent by email.

IconScout AI Icon Generator creates royalty-free SVG icons from text prompts and lets users customize generated results in its SVG Editor, including changing colors and other elements. It lists models including Flux.2, GPT, Recraft, Nano Banana, Krea, Seedream, Qwen, and Grok. Icons can be exported as SVG or PNG, and the page says they include commercial usage rights. Suggested uses include app interfaces, dashboards, navigation menus, landing pages, social content, and presentations. The page offers three free AI generations across its generators without requiring a credit card. IconScout says uploaded content and personal data are not used to train its models or saved to its servers; it also says its training icons are exclusive to the company and are not based on contributor content. Integrations include design, office, and website tools such as Figma, Canva, Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Docs, Webflow, and WordPress. Desktop apps are listed for Mac, Windows, and Linux, alongside an API for integrating design assets into platforms. IconScout launched in August 2016.