IcoFX is a program developed to allow users to generate their icons, making them all the modifications they believe necessary to use them later on their websites, social networks, and others. Thanks to this platform, you can create your icons in different sizes so that they can be perfectly adapted to the use you want to give them, with all kinds of editing tools available.

In its most common use, IcoFX will allow you to design your icons, determining in the first instance the size you want them to have, considering that according to where you are going to place them, they must have some or other dimensions. As a tip, we recommend you check the size of the icon. You need not waste time and make it just the way you should.

Having made the above clarification, you should know that this application will allow you to make your icons, working with a color depth of up to 24 bits so that you have support for all kinds of effects, such as transparency. For example, if you want to generate an icon with a transparent background and in front of it shows a letter or a drawing, taking the background of the image behind it, you will be able to do it.

If you prefer, you must consider that IcoFX also allows you to modify pre-existing icons since you can import them as long as they are in the most common formats, such as BMP, JPG, or PNG. In the same way, this application allows you to take a screenshot of a part of your screen to obtain an initial image on which you can then make those modifications.

Another of the obvious advantages this program has within its segment is the considerable amount of effects and filters it allows us to use, more than 40 in total since new ones are added with each update. You can use them all the time to produce a unique icon or take an existing icon and give it a distinctive touch by using just one of them.

What kind of icons can I develop from this platform? A custom-made one. First of all, you can specify the size, which you can determine within the following options:

• 16x16

• 24x24

• 32x32

• 48x48

• 256x256

Once you have selected the size, the next step involves specifying the color, ranging from 1 to 32 bits, as mentioned before. Likewise, as we said before, you can save this part of the process by selecting a previously existing icon.

How about the program's interface? Very good, in general terms. The white background allows us to concentrate only on the icon we create while finding each option and function is elementary. Even beyond the functionality it offers, it is a modern interface, well done, which undoubtedly contributes to making this software one of the best of its kind.

And if you want to make the most of this service, we recommend that from time to time, you take a look at its Help section, where you will find the Tutorials option, with a vast amount of step-by-step instructions that you should not underestimate. Whether you are just taking your first steps with this program or already have experience creating icons, you can be sure that these tutorials will be of enormous use to you.

In summary, we can say that this application is an accurate reference in terms of creating all kinds of icons, regardless of the reason why we want to generate them. In our tests, we have not experienced instability, screen freezing, or any similar inconvenience. In other words, we don't have even the slightest point against to point out about our analysis today. Well, maybe it used to be completely free, and now it's not, but that's perfectly understandable.

Now available in a trial version for a month, this platform becomes one of the options we can consider when we think about creating all kinds of icons to give them the appropriate use. Thanks to its lasting effects and filters, we can generate all the icons we want. Also, its consumption of system resources is shallow, so it does not affect the performance of our computer.

For the rest, you have to know that this program has three paid variants. The most common for personal use is also the cheapest and costs $29.99 per year per user. Then we can find two others, much more expensive, with prices of $49.99 for business customers and the complete version, $499.99, for when we want a comprehensive suite of icons for our sites.

We also wanted to point out that IcoFX has a portable version, although not as complete as the one described here, ideal for carrying on a USB storage device and thus being able to generate your icons without installation.