Favicon Downloader

Favicons started as the tiny 16-pixel icon that appeared in browser tabs back in the late 1990s and have evolved over the past two decades into something quite a bit more elaborate. Modern websites ship a fleet of icons across multiple sizes and formats: a classic 16x16 and 32x32 ICO for legacy browsers, PNGs at various sizes for bookmarks and pinned tabs, Apple touch icons in 180x180 for iOS home screen shortcuts, Android/Chrome icons in 192x192 and 512x512 for PWA installation, sometimes a dedicated maskable icon for adaptive home screen rendering. The browser tab icon is the visible tip of an iceberg of related image assets, and this tool helps surface and download whichever pieces of that iceberg you actually need.

The most common reason developers reach for a favicon downloader is reverse-engineering an existing site's icon for use in a directory listing, a competitor analysis dashboard, a bookmarking extension, or a 'recently visited' display. Rebuilding a clean copy of someone's favicon by hand is annoying — first you have to figure out where the file actually lives (the canonical /favicon.ico path is one option but most modern sites use HTML link tags pointing elsewhere), then you have to download it, then you have to convert it to whatever format your destination needs. This tool collapses the discovery and download into one step, returning whatever favicon assets the site exposes in a format you can use directly.

Discovery order matters because there's no single way that all sites declare their icons. The HTML <link rel="icon"> tag is the modern standard and what most sites use; Apple touch icon links cover iOS-specific assets; the Web App Manifest's icons array covers PWA assets; and the legacy /favicon.ico fallback is what older sites depended on. The tool tries these sources in order, returning whichever it finds first along with the metadata about which source produced it. If multiple sources exist, you can see all of them — sometimes useful for understanding why a particular browser displays a different icon than another, which is usually the result of different browsers preferring different declarations.

1. 1Paste a URL (we normalize and follow safe redirects).
2. 2Fetch HTML and extract <link rel="icon">, Apple touch icons, and the manifest URL.
3. 3Resolve relative icon paths and try common fallbacks like /favicon.ico.
4. 4Deduplicate candidates and validate content types and size limits.
5. 5Preview each icon and download it with one click.