Iconforge vs Iconscout pricing: $360 vs $15 once

OneTimeSuite Blog · Published 2026-07-21

Iconscout's Unlimited plan is $9.99/month just to keep generating icon sets — and every source image still gets uploaded to do it. Iconforge takes one image and outputs the full favicon and app-icon set — ICO, PNG sizes, Apple touch icons, Android adaptive icons, a PWA manifest.json — entirely on your machine, for $15 once.

This is the full pricing breakdown: what Iconscout actually costs over one, two and three years, what Iconforge gives you for $15 paid once, and the honest cases where the subscription is still the right call.

What Iconscout actually costs you

At $9.99/mo (Unlimited), one Iconscout subscription adds up to $120 every year — $360 over a three-year window, for software you stop owning the day you cancel. Iconforge is $15 the day you buy it, and the meter never runs again.

Three years in, the gap is $345 — and every year after that adds another $120 to the subscription side of the ledger.

Iconforge vs Iconscout, feature by feature

Price is only half the story — here's how the two line up on the things that decide day-to-day use:

What you get for $15, once

Drop one image, get a full favicon + app-icon set (ICO, PNG, Apple touch, Android, PWA manifest) — zero uploads. The highlights:

• 📥 Drop one source image — PNG, JPG or SVG in — every required size and format generated automatically.
• 🧊 Full favicon set — 16×16, 32×32, 48×48 packed into a proper multi-resolution ICO, plus standalone PNGs.
• 🍎 Apple touch icons — All iOS home-screen sizes generated with correct naming and padding.
• 🤖 Android adaptive icons — Foreground/background layer support for Android's adaptive icon format.

Two months of Iconscout Unlimited costs more than Iconforge does, once, forever.

Switching is 3 steps

1. Buy once on Whop. One-time $15 for the packaged installer and lifetime updates.
2. Drop in a source image. One PNG, JPG or SVG is all the app needs.
3. Export the full set. Favicons, Apple touch icons, Android adaptive icons and a PWA manifest, all at once.

When paying Iconscout is still the right call

Being straight about it: the subscription earns its keep in three situations. If your team is large enough that Iconscout's collaboration features, permissions and admin controls are genuinely load-bearing; if your workflow is built on its integrations and leaving means rebuilding that plumbing; or if you have enterprise requirements — SSO, audit logs, SLAs, a vendor to call — that a pay-once app doesn't come with. Everyone else is paying $9.99/mo (Unlimited) for a job that runs fine on hardware they already own.

If that's you, Iconforge is $15, once. For the deeper dive, read the Iconforge vs Iconscout head-to-head.

Frequently asked questions

Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/iconforge-mvp. The $15 buys the packaged installer and updates.

Does my source image get uploaded anywhere?
No — every size and format is rendered locally in the app. No network calls.

Does it generate a PWA manifest.json?
Yes — with correct icon paths and sizes pre-filled, ready to drop into a web app.

Can I generate sets for multiple apps at once?
Yes — batch mode runs the same source image (or a folder of them) through the full export pipeline in one pass.

What image formats does it accept?
PNG, JPG and SVG in; ICO, PNG and manifest.json out.

More on Iconscout pricing

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