IconViewer Alternatives

IconViewer is described as 'Free Windows Explorer extension that lets you easily view, copy, and save icons contained within programs and libraries. Open a files Properties box, select the "Icons" tab, and view the icons contained in the file' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to IconViewer for Windows, Linux and PortableApps.com. The best IconViewer alternative is Greenfish Icon Editor Pro. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Greenfish Icon Editor Pro or IconsExtract. Other great apps like IconViewer are Batch Icon Extractor, Thumbico, Quick Any2Ico and ResourcesExtract.

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  1. GFIE Pro is a powerful icon, cursor, animation and icon library editor. Layer support with advanced selection handling makes it a really professional and unique freeware tool for designing small pixelgraphic images.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PortableApps.com
     
  2. IconsExtract icon
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    The IconsExtract utility scans your computer, and allows to extrac the icons stored in EXE, DLL, and in other file types.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. This tool allows to manage icon libraries, standalone icons and executable that contains icons as resources.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Batch Icon Extractor - a simple tool for batch extraction of icons. Supports compressed Vista icons.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Thumbico icon
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    Thumbico displays the thumbnail or icon of any file, image, document, video or program from your Desktop or computer. But unlike Windows, which shows you small, standard sized images, Thumbico gives you the large, any size "uncensored" version.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Quick Any2Ico icon
     7 likes

    Allow users to easily create or extract icons and save them as PNG or GIF images, in a range of different resolutions, with compression options for PNG files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. ResourcesExtract is a small utility that scans dll/ocx/exe files and extract all resources (bitmaps, icons, cursors, AVI movies, HTML files, and more...) stored in them into the folder that you specify.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Extracts icons from EXE, DLL, and OCX files with batch folder scanning, exports all or selected icons to ICO, BMP, JPEG, EMF, HTML, or dBase, supports high color and command-line operations, and combines icons into images or documents as needed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. LiquidIcon XP is one of the most popular Icon Editors in the world. Best of all, it's completely FREE (no Adware, Spyware, Guaranteed), portable and lightweight, and works on every version of Windows!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Gconvert icon
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    GConvert icon toolkit: create, edit, extract, manage and convert icons of any size and color depth. Full support for Windows Vista and XP icons, manage icons in ICL and DLL files, convert from/to other image...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11.  Like

    The icoutils are a set of command-line programs for extracting and converting images in Microsoft Windows(R) icon and cursor files. These files usually have the extension .ico or .cur, but they can also be embedded in executables and libraries (.dll-files).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  12. icoextract is an icon extractor for Windows PE files (.exe/.dll), written in Python. It also includes a thumbnailer script (exe-thumbnailer) for Linux desktops.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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