Free Favicon Grabber Tool

Download and extract the favicon icon from any website URL in multiple sizes. Free, fast, and works entirely in your browser with no sign-up required.

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Favicon Grabber

Extract and download favicons from any website in multiple sizes and formats with color palette analysis.

Favicon Grabber

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Enter a domain name to grab its favicons

Note

Favicon validation attempts to load images directly. Some sites may block cross-origin requests. Color palette is simulated.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Favicon Grabber?

The Favicon Grabber is a free online tool that downloads the favicon icon from any website in its available sizes.

Is the Favicon Grabber free?

Yes, it is completely free with no registration required.

What favicon sizes can I download?

The Favicon Grabber retrieves all available favicon sizes from a website, including standard 16x16, 32x32, and larger touch icons.

Is my data safe with this tool?

Absolutely. The Favicon Grabber Tool processes everything client-side in your browser. No data is uploaded to or stored on any server. Your content remains private on your device at all times.

Does the Favicon Grabber Tool work on mobile devices?

Yes, the Favicon Grabber Tool is fully responsive and works on smartphones and tablets. You can use it on any device with a modern web browser -- no app download required.

Do I need to create an account to use this tool?

No account or registration is needed. Simply open the Favicon Grabber Tool in your browser and start using it immediately. There are no sign-up walls or usage restrictions.

How do I use the Favicon Grabber Tool?

Simply enter your input in the provided field, adjust any settings to your preference, and the tool will process it instantly. You can then copy the result to your clipboard or download it.

Which browsers are supported?

The Favicon Grabber Tool works in all modern browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and Opera. For the best experience, use the latest version of your preferred browser.

What is the difference between a favicon, an Apple touch icon, and a PWA icon?

They are all site icons, but browsers use them in different places. A classic favicon is the small 16x16 or 32x32 image shown in browser tabs, bookmarks, and history, traditionally a .ico file though PNG and SVG versions are now common. An Apple touch icon is a larger PNG (often 180x180) that iOS uses when someone saves a site to their iPhone or iPad home screen. PWA icons are bigger still, typically 192x192 and 512x512, and are referenced in a web app manifest so an installed progressive web app gets a proper launcher icon. Modern sites usually ship the whole family. This grabber checks for all of them at once -- direct favicon paths, apple-touch sizes, and android-chrome PWA icons -- so you can see and download a site's complete icon set in a single lookup.

Why does an icon show up as 'not found' when I can see it in the site's browser tab?

Because the tool verifies each icon by actually loading it as an image in your browser, not just by checking that a URL exists. Some servers send cross-origin (CORS) headers that block this kind of programmatic image request, so a favicon that genuinely exists and renders fine in a normal tab can still land in the 'not found' list here. The good news is that the direct URL is often still valid even when the inline preview refuses to render -- you can copy or open it and it will work in your own HTML or config. This is the honest trade-off for splitting results into real 'found' versus 'not found' lists instead of handing you dead links. If a known icon appears missing, try opening its direct URL in a new tab to confirm before assuming it isn't there.

How do I embed a favicon as a Base64 data URI to avoid an extra HTTP request?

Inlining an icon as a Base64 data URI lets the image travel inside your HTML or CSS instead of being fetched separately, which removes one network round-trip and can speed up first paint for small icons. With this tool, find the icon you want in the results grid and use the Convert to Base64 option; it encodes the image into a data: string you can copy with one click. Paste it straight into an img src, a CSS background-image, or a manifest, and the browser renders it without ever calling back to the server. This works best for tiny favicons -- Base64 inflates byte size by roughly a third, so it is the wrong choice for large PWA or touch icons. Grab the icon you need above, convert it, and drop the data URI directly into your code.

Are the color palette swatches an accurate reading of the favicon's real colors?

No, and this is worth knowing before you rely on them. The color palette tab shows a generated set of swatches derived from the domain name you entered, not a pixel-level sample of the actual icon image. It is meant as a decorative starting point -- a quick visual hook -- rather than a true extraction of the brand's colors, so the hex codes it shows should not be treated as the site's official palette. If you need genuine brand colors, download the icon and sample it with a real color-picker or eyedropper tool that reads the image pixels directly. The favicon previews, direct URLs, downloads, and Base64 conversion are all based on the real fetched icons and are reliable; only the palette swatches are simulated. Use the grabber to pull the actual icon, then color-sample that file for true values.

Where does a website usually store its favicon, and what locations does this tool check?

Sites keep icons in a surprising number of places, which is why guessing one path often fails. The oldest convention is a /favicon.ico at the site root, but modern sites also ship /favicon.png and vector /favicon.svg or /icon.svg, plus apple-touch-icon files for iOS, android-chrome-192 and 512 PWA icons, and a Windows mstile-150x150 tile. Many icons are also served by third-party services rather than the site itself. This grabber builds a full list of candidate URLs and checks them all: Google's favicon API at 16, 32, 64, 128, and 256 pixels, DuckDuckGo's icon endpoint, the standard direct root paths, the apple-touch sizes, and the PWA and platform icons. Because it probes every common location instead of one, it surfaces icons you would miss by hand. Enter a domain and the tool returns everything it can find, grouped by source.

About the Favicon Grabber

The Favicon Grabber pulls the favicon and app icons from any website so you can preview, download, or copy them in seconds. Type a domain — example.com, a full https:// URL, or something with www and a path all work, since the tool strips it down to the bare domain — then it probes the places a site usually keeps its icons and shows you everything it finds. It is built for designers building moodboards, developers wiring up link previews and bookmark UIs, marketers assembling logo sheets, and anyone who wants a clean copy of a site's icon without screenshotting and cropping by hand.

A favicon (short for "favorite icon") is the small image a browser shows in tabs, bookmarks, and history. The classic format is a 16×16 or 32×32 .ico, but modern sites ship a whole family of icons — PNG and SVG favicons, Apple touch icons for iOS home screens, and larger PWA icons for app installs — and this tool hunts for all of them.

What the grabber looks for

The tool doesn't guess from one location. For each domain it builds a list of candidate icon URLs and checks them all, covering the conventions real sites follow:

  • Icon services — Google's favicon API at 16, 32, 64, 128, and 256 pixels, plus DuckDuckGo's icon endpoint.
  • Direct paths — the standard /favicon.ico, /favicon.png, and vector /favicon.svg and /icon.svg.
  • Apple touch icons — the apple-touch-icon sizes from 57×57 up to 180×180 that iOS uses for home-screen shortcuts.
  • PWA and platform iconsicon-192 through icon-512, Android Chrome 192 and 512, and the Windows mstile-150x150 tile.

Each candidate is tested by actually trying to load it as an image, so the results are split into a "found" list and a "not found" list rather than handing you dead links.

Working with the results

Found icons appear in a preview grid you can switch between small, medium, and large display sizes, and a "By Source" view groups them by where they came from. For any single icon you can:

  • Save it as a file to your computer.
  • Copy its direct URL to paste into HTML, a CSS background-image, or a config file.
  • Convert to Base64 to get a data: URI you can inline directly, avoiding an extra network request.
  • Open it in a new tab to inspect it full size.

A "Download All" button saves every valid icon in one pass — handy when you need the complete set for a brand folder or a link-preview cache.

A note on accuracy and privacy

Two points worth knowing. First, validation works by loading images in your browser, and some sites block cross-origin requests; an icon that exists may still appear under "not found" if the server refuses the request, though its direct URL is often still valid even when the inline preview won't render. Second, the color palette tab is a generated swatch derived from the domain name — a decorative starting point, not a real sampling of the icon's pixels — so don't treat those hex codes as the brand's true colors.

On privacy: the interface runs in your browser with no sign-up and no account, and downloaded files go straight to your device. Because it relies on third-party icon services and requests icons from the target site, the domain you enter is sent to Google, DuckDuckGo, and the website itself during the lookup — so this is not a fully offline, nothing-leaves-your-browser tool. For looking up public favicons, that is exactly the trade-off you want: broad coverage with no friction.

When you'd reach for it

Grab a favicon when you're building a "sites I use" dashboard and need real icons instead of placeholders, auditing whether your own site ships the full icon set browsers and PWAs expect, or rescuing a crisp copy of an icon for a slide. Enter a domain above and the Favicon Grabber will surface every icon it can find.