They make it easy. You don’t need any special skills or jailbreaks on your device. You simply to go to their website from a computer, upload an image and wait a few seconds while it develops a custom image for your iPhone. Send yourself an email or write down the URL and then visit it from your device.

They also have a lot of the most popular images created by other users, so there is a good chance that the website you are looking for may already be listed. When you see one you like, just enter in the code and go to the URL it provides from your iPhone.

Features:

• Easily create custom web clips on your Apple device.
• No apps or jailbreaks necessary.
• Browse most popular web clips from other users.
• Similar tools: OnlineIconMaker, Iconizer, ConvertIcon, Favicon-Generator and Free-Icon-Editor.

Find SwatchPix @ www.swatchpix.com

Generate Favicon is designed to make anyone who owns a website’s life just a little bit easier. It also helps with making your site stand out. In addition to their generator, they also have a “what is a favicon” section that contains all kinds of helpful information for people who are new to these icons. Their generator is easy to use. It does one thing, and it does it well.

Features:

• Generate icons from .PNG, .GIF, .JPG and .BMP images.
• Transparent background for .GIF and .PNG images.
• Easy to use generator that makes favicons in multiple sizes.
• “What is a favicon” for an explanation of favicons and their history.
• Preview of what the icon will look like in different browsers.
• Similar tools: FaviGen, FaviconTool, Favicon-Generator, Favicon.cc and OnlineIconMaker

Find GenerateFavicon @ www.generatefavicon.com

They also have the specific size of 57 x 57 which is commonly used for iPhone icons. You can also choose to auto resize and/or auto crop the image to get it into a square shaped icon, or choose to resize without transforming. Another option available is to sharpen the image before converting it into an icon. Once done, the icon can be downloaded in your desired format and size.

Features:

• Convert images into icons easily.
• Choose from ICO, BMP, PNG, GIF or JPG format.
• Choose from 10 different output sizes.
• Options to resize, crop or sharpen the image.
• No registration required.
• Similar tools: AndroidIconGenerator, iPhone icon generator, Little Icon Editor and IconsPedia.

Visit Pic To Icon Converter @ www.prodraw.net/online-tool/pic-to-icon.php

Once you type a keyword and hit search, it displays a number of results which can be filtered by icon size, background, license type or style. The icons can be sorted by size and downloaded in several formats including PNG, GIF, JPEG, ICO, ICNS and Windows ICO. You can also post comments for each icon or add them to a list of your favorites, to retrieve them later. You also have the option to browse more icons from the same set or even by the same author.

Features:

• Search thousands of icons and icon sets.
• Filter based on size, style, background and license.
• No registration required.
• Similar tools: IconGal, Style14, IconArchive, FindIcons, Iconizer, and Iconvert.

Visit IconWanted @ www.iconwanted.com

CSS Load is a free to use web tool that lets you get customized loading icons for web apps. You start by selecting an icon type from the ones available on the site’s homepage. Next you customize the icon’s colors, dimensions, and animation speed.

A preview of your loading icons is shown in the right-most pane. The preview can be viewed in front of a plain background, a black one, or a grid one.

When you are satisfied with your icon you can click on the “Get code” button and obtain your icons’ CSS to use in your projects.

Features:

• A user friendly web tool.
• Generates CSS code for loading icons used in web apps.
• Lets you customize colors and dimensions of icons.
• Lets you preview icons in front of different backgrounds.
• Similar tool: SpinJS.
• Also read related article: How To Create An Animated Loading Image Easily.

Check out CSSLoad @ www.cssload.net (by MOin from Urban Savior)

SpinJS is a web tool that helps you to create spinners for your web apps. Alongside a dynamic spinning icon you can view various controls that include lines, length, width, radius, trail, speed, and the option to enable shadow. As you change these controls the spinner’s preview is updated in real-time. The value of each control can be shown by placing the mouse pointer on the slider. You can then replace these values in the CSS method provided on the site.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Helps create customize loading spinners.
• Lets you vary numerous spinner controls.
• Shows values for all spinner controls.
• Provides CSS method template for you to use your spinner.
• Similar tools: OnlineIconMaker, Iconizer, ConvertIcon, Favicon-Generator and Free-Icon-Editor.

Check out SpinJS @ www.fgnass.github.com/spin.js (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

Online Icon Maker provides you with a few icon shapes which you can see in the image above. With these shapes you can edit the colors, the font and color of the text they contain, and the icon’s shadows.

When you achieve your desired icon, click on a particular shape to download it as a ZIP archive. The archive contains the icon in various sizes, all in the PNG image format.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you create new icons.
• Provides predefined icon shapes.
• Lets you modify icon color, text color, and icon shadow.
• Provides icon in different sizes in PNG image format.
• Similar tools: Iconizer, ConvertIcon, Favicon-Generator and Free-Icon-Editor.

Check out Online Icon Maker @ www.onlineiconmaker.com (by MOin from Urban Savior)

Heartcode CanvasLoader Creator is a free to use web tool that lets you create a customized preloading icon. The tool lets you select the color, diameter, density, range, FPS, and speed of the icon. You can also select the fading and scaling type. The types of shapes include circles, squares, rectangles, and rounded rectangles.

The generated code snippet appears right under the selected controls from where it can be copied and used in your application.

Features:

• A user-friendly web tool.
• Lets you create customized preloading icons.
• Lets you customize color, diameter, density, range, FPS, and speed of the icon.
• Generates usable code snippet of customized icon.
• Similar tools: Preloaders.

Check out Heartcode CanvasLoader Creator @ www.heartcode.robertpataki.com/canvasloader (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

Instead of browsing icons traditionally through categories, you can find icons here through tags and artists.  The tags page guides you through the most popular icons by using a tag cloud and you can also view a list of artists, which is useful if you are a fan of a particular artist’s works.

Icongal also allow you to filter icons by licenses. You can show as many as 48 icons per page and change the icon backgrounds to white, checkered, or dark, serving as a preview on how the icons will look on your website.

Features:

• Free; no sign up required.
• Sleek icon gallery with nice sorting features.
• Search icons through tags and authors.
• Filter by licenses.
• Preview icon sizes.
• Similar Tools: Style14, Favicon Generator, and Online  Icon Maker.

Check out IconGal @ http://icongal.com

Icon Archive is a free to use website that serves up a collection of various icons by graphic designers. In addition to customizing your desktop, you can use these icons in your projects and to get inspiration to create new icons. You can browse icons categorically according to the ones you need and they cover everything, ranging from music icons to social media.

For every set of icons, you are provided with an ‘iconset rating,’ the download stats, download size, and contained file formats.

People looking for custom icons can browse the site’s “artist cloud” to view the work of different graphic designers. This will help hirers find freelance workers.

Features:

• Free icons for web developers.
• Offers a wide variety of icons.
• Sort icons categorically.
• Icons can be used to customize desktop or in your projects.
• Shows an rating for every icon-set.
• Helps find freelance workers to create icons.

Check out IconArchive @ http://www.iconarchive.com (By Umar from TechCityInc)