IconMasterXP for Windows

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Editors’ Review

Download.com staffJuly 30, 2026

PC-customization fans often want a tool that can turn any ordinary image, whether a cartoon or a picture from a digital camera, into an icon. This software does that trick, but limited features and a counterintuitive interface keep us from giving it a wholehearted thumbs up. The image-conversion task works well enough, supporting most popular image formats, including JPEG, TIFF, GIF, BMP, and PNG. It offers visual effects such as the ability to sharpen, soften, and rotate, but provides no tools for image- or icon-editing. Nor does it offer features for managing icon libraries, or for helping change the file and folder icons on a computer. The interface is confusing enough that it took us considerable time to figure out how to create a complete icon set, a one-click feature in many other similar programs. On the whole, this is a niche application poorly suited for casual computer users, and most design professionals will avoid it in favor of full-blown graphics packages.

What’s new in version 4.9

Version 4.9 is now freeware and contains minor bug fixes.