ConvertIcon Desktop

ConvertIcon Desktop is an easy-to-use instrument that can produce icons of various sizes from common images. It caters to software developers who want to integrate icons into their web designs and other software projects, as well as casual users.

The tool doesn't have to be installed because the icon generator is wrapped in a single .exe file that can be double-clicked to bring up the main app window and configure options.

Since it's portable software, you can copy ConvertIcon Desktop onto a thumb drive to effortlessly run it on any computer to create icons. There are no software dependencies involved.

As far as the GUI is concerned, ConvertIcon Desktop adopts a regular window that incorporates another, smaller pane that takes cue from the Mac OS X look.

You can begin by browsing your computer for a photo you want to transform into an image, provided that it has the PNG, GIF, JPEG or CUR (Cursor). It's also possible to open an ICO file if you're just interested in changing its size.

In the following step, you can set the output format to ICO and check the box next to the preferred size: 16x16, 24x24, 32x32, 48x48, 64x64, 96x96, 128x128, 192x192, 256x256 or 512x512.

Although ConvertIcon Desktop generates icons in square shapes, it retains the aspect ratio. It's also possible to keep the original photo size, which means you'd be just modifying the file type to ICO, as well as to convert the file to PNG format without making any modifications to the image resolution.

The new file is immediately put together after indicating the output directory and file name. The original file names are preserved.

There are several downsides to this app. Firstly, batch processing isn't supported, so you can convert one icon from one graphic file at a time.

Secondly, although it's possible to check the boxes of multiple sizes, suggesting that ConvertIcon Desktop is capable of creating multiple versions of the same picture with different sizes, this isn't, in fact, accurate. Our tests have shown that this action leads to one ICO file with a distorted image.

ConvertIcon Desktop offers a simple solution for creating ICO and PNG images from other file types but it doesn't have any exciting features.