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Pros
- Allows drawing icons from scratch
- Supports importing images to create icons
- Highly compact application size
Cons
No Cons available
Full Specifications
- GENERAL
- Release
- Latest update
- Version
- 2.0
- OPERATING SYSTEMS
- Platform
- Windows
- Operating System
- Windows ME
- Windows 10
- Windows NT
- Windows 98 SE
- Windows 95
- Windows 2000
- Windows XP
- Windows 98
- Additional Requirements
- Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
- POPULARITY
- Total Downloads
- 43,109
- Downloads Last Week
- 1
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User Reviews
2.5/5
4 User Votes
No longer working
JohnBoy1012- Pros
- Used to be a nice simple icon program
- Cons
- Installer no longer works (no matter where you download it from), behaves like malware.
- Summary
- Do not download unless CNET confirms it is fixed
Great for icon making!
CreeDreamsOfBear- Pros
- Light-weight, easy to use.
- Cons
- Does not work with Vista or Win7 :(
- Summary
- Great for making your own icons. I wish they had continued to update it.
Works great, easy to use, but CRASHES EVERY TIME!!!
EZInfo- Pros
- Easy to use, free, does the job, great program
- Cons
- CRASHES EVERY SINGLE TIME I USE IT (Iconart has encountered an error and needs to close)!!! For some reason if I move the "iconart has encountered an error..." window i can still use it though.
- Summary
- Great program, but UNTIL THEY FIX THE CONSTANT CRASHING BUG, I CANNOT RECOMMEND THIS PROGRAM AT ALL!!! if it didn't have that flaw, I'd give it 5/5 stars.
Does The Job
SignalOne- Pros
- Relatively simple to use with some basic tools to get the job done. Can create animated icons.
- Cons
- Lacks advanced tools and customisation options. Has the occasional bug that will either cause random results or cause the software to crash. Main window is not resizable. No support for layers (and the possibilities that layers can support).
- Summary
- If you want to make icon files, this is a neat little tool that will pretty much do what you need for free. It comes with only very basic drawing tools (comparable to MS Paint), so if you want to create something a little more modern looking, I recommend making your icon in Photoshop then copying and pasting the image into this program to create the icon file. It's a good tool for beginners; advanced users will, however, need to start looking for other programs and might need to consider spending a little money to get a program that has a few more features that are necessary in a more professional development environment. For what it does, this is a useful tool that does a good job. Amateur programmers and freeware developers are best suited and will find this package useful to create custom icons for their applications for free.
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