Iconscout

Overview

Iconscout was founded in 2018 by Nattu Adnan in Malaysia (part of the same Design Barn company as LottieFiles), with headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, USA. It is one of the world's leading design asset platforms, offering icons, illustrations, 3D assets, and Lottie animations that serve millions of designers and development teams across branding, UI/UX, product design, and marketing creative.

Iconscout operates on a freemium and subscription model and competes with Flaticon, Icons8, and Envato Elements. The platform also offers Figma, Sketch, and Adobe XD plugins, a developer API, and Teams plans, letting designers use assets directly inside their creative workflow while enabling enterprises to manage brand icon assets centrally.

Key Strengths

• Large asset library: 5 million+ icons plus hundreds of thousands of illustrations and 3D assets covering nearly every industry, from UI/UX and branding to education.
• Broad asset types: one-stop search across 4 asset types - icons, illustrations, 3D, and Lottie animations - meeting both static and motion asset needs with a single account.
• Design tool integration: plugins for 3 major design tools - Figma, Sketch, and Adobe XD - let designers drag assets into their workflow without switching pages.
• Developer friendly: the Iconscout API supports integrating the asset library into websites, apps, and design collaboration platforms for on-demand search and batch retrieval.
• Team and brand plans: Teams provides shared resource libraries and unified license management, while the for Branding plan helps organizations unify brand icon and illustration assets.

Product Ecosystem

Iconscout Marketplace

The core resource library offers 5 million+ icons, illustrations, 3D assets, and Lottie animations, filterable by style, format, and size for web, mobile, and print scenarios.

Iconscout Design Tool Plugins

Plugins for Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, and other design tools support searching, dragging in, and downloading assets directly in the workflow, reducing tool switching and boosting efficiency.

Iconscout API

A developer interface for integrating asset search and download capabilities into websites, apps, and design collaboration platforms, ideal for teams that need programmatic asset access.

Iconscout Teams

A team collaboration plan with shared resource libraries, unified license management, and team workflows, suited to brand and marketing teams centralizing asset management.

Iconscout for Branding

A brand asset management tool that helps enterprises and institutions unify brand icons, illustrations, and animation assets for consistent multi-touchpoint output.

Limitations

• Limited free downloads: free accounts have daily download caps, and HD or premium assets require a Premium subscription, which is inconvenient for heavy use.
• Inconsistent asset quality: open creator submissions mean icon and illustration styles vary, so brand-sensitive projects need manual curation.
• Limited Chinese search: Chinese keyword results are sparser than English, slowing local users' searches; combining English keywords is recommended.
• Complex licensing rules: the free-versus-commercial boundary needs careful review; teams should upgrade to Teams for unified license management to avoid copyright risk.

Use Cases

• UI/UX design and development (Recommended ★★★★★): quickly obtain consistently styled icons, with SVG formats usable directly in front-end and design files.
• Product and brand assets (Recommended ★★★★): icons, illustrations, and 3D assets cover brand, marketing, and education scenarios to meet daily asset needs.
• Motion and interaction design (Recommended ★★★★): Lottie animations work directly on web and mobile, pairing with web animation performance optimization for smooth experiences.
• Developer integration (Recommended ★★★★): integrate asset capabilities into your own products via the API; see component libraries and design systems.
• Large commercial projects (Recommended ★★★): combine Premium licensing with manual review to ensure compliant asset use.

Pricing

Note: These are public reference prices; actual plans and offers follow the official website's real-time quotes.

FAQ

• Can I use Iconscout free assets commercially? Assets downloaded on the free plan are available for some non-commercial scenarios; commercial use usually requires a Premium subscription for clear licensing - see the official license notes.; see design assets and licensing.

• What is the relationship between Iconscout and LottieFiles? Both belong to the Design Barn company. Iconscout offers icons, illustrations, and 3D assets, while LottieFiles focuses on the Lottie animation platform, and their accounts can be used together.; see animation and design asset ecosystem.

• Which design tools does Iconscout support? It provides plugins for Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, and other mainstream design tools, letting you use assets directly in your creative workflow.; see design tool integration.

• Can Iconscout assets be edited? Yes, colors and sizes can be adjusted online, and icons export in SVG, PNG, and other formats; complex edits are better done in professional vector software.; see icon editing and customization.

• Iconscout or Flaticon - which should I choose? Iconscout's strengths are 3D assets, Lottie animations, and its design tool plugin ecosystem; for icon-only needs, compare Flaticon (7 million+ icons) and choose by asset type and budget.