Iconify vs SVGR

Iconify gives instant access to enormous icon libraries; SVGR converts your own custom SVG files into framework components.

Different Problems Being Solved

Iconify provides unified, on-demand access to well over a hundred thousand icons across dozens of popular icon sets (Material, Feather, Font Awesome, and many more) through one consistent API — SVGR solves a different problem: converting your own custom or brand-specific SVG files into importable React/Vue/Svelte components.

Iconify provides on-demand access to a massive library of existing icon sets
SVGR converts your own custom SVG files into framework components
These tools solve genuinely different problems, not competing alternatives

Using Both Together

Many projects use both: Iconify for standard UI icons (search, close, arrow) pulled from established icon sets, and SVGR for custom brand assets, logos, and bespoke illustrations that don't exist in any public icon library and need to be authored and imported from your own design files.

Standard UI icons commonly come from Iconify's established icon sets
Custom brand assets and bespoke illustrations need SVGR's component conversion
The two tools complement rather than compete with each other in practice

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Iconify bundle every icon into my app's JavaScript?

No — Iconify's on-demand loading fetches only the specific icons actually used, avoiding the bloat of bundling an entire icon library, which is one of its key advantages over including a full icon font or set.

Can I use SVGR to convert icons I download from Iconify?

Yes, though it's somewhat redundant — Iconify already provides framework-specific component packages for popular frameworks, making SVGR conversion unnecessary for icons already available through Iconify's own component APIs.

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