Ultimate Icon Converter

Ultimate Icon Converter is one of those tiny applications that are very handy to have around, designed to help you create and convert icons in a fast and convenient manner. Its purpose is to make it as simple as possible to create the desired icon from existing images.

Not only that it has a very small footprint on the system it is running on, but it is completely portable, which means no installation is required. Once you double click on the executable file, the main GUI is revealed.

Probably in an effort to keep everything simple, the one-window interface features no additional menus and few options to deal with. The GUI comprises the two available modules of Ultimate Icon Converter: creating icons from images and extracting images from existing icons.

As mentioned above, you can use Ultimate Icon Converter to create icons from existing images. The application supports PNG, GIF and JPG as input, allowing you to obtain icons of various sizes, varying from 256x256 to 16x16.

To make sure everything goes smoothly and the resulting icons will look their best, you can try out one of the available resampling and image resizing modes. Unfortunately, there are no pointers or tips on the advantages and particularities of each mode so you will have to experiment to learn how they work.

Aside from creating icons, Ultimate Icon Converter can also extract images from icons stored on your computer. You just have to enter or browse for the path of the icon file, select the output folder and choose the output format. PNG, BMP, TIF and JPG are the available alternatives.

The most noticeable advantages of Ultimate Icon Converter are its portability, light footprint and ease of use. Indeed, working with it is extremely easy and getting an icon is just a matter of a few clicks. Nevertheless, unlike other applications of its kind, it doesn’t allow you to extract icons from executable files or create icons from scratch. Even so, it is a handy application to have around.