Heroicons vs Tabler Icons – Which to Use in 2026?

Heroicons and Tabler are both MIT-licensed outline icon sets for modern web apps. Where Heroicons trades scale for quality, Tabler trades curation for exhaustive coverage.

Library

HeroIcons

Tabler Icons

Samples

Icons

1,288

5,963

License

MIT

MIT

Author

Refactoring UI Inc

Paweł Kuna

Category

UI Other / Mixed Grid

UI 24px

Multicolor

No

No

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The core difference

Heroicons ships 292 icons — every one hand-reviewed by the Tailwind CSS team. The set is complete for standard product UI: navigation, actions, status, and form controls. It is intentionally limited to avoid icon quality drift.

Tabler Icons ships 5,000+ icons, making it one of the largest consistent outline icon sets available. Icons cover everything from standard UI to brand logos, medical, food, transportation, and technical symbols. Quality is consistently high across the set.

Navigation & action icons

HomeUserMagnifying GlassCog 6 ToothArrow RightCheckHomeUserSearchSettingsArrow RightCheck

Niche icons only Tabler covers

Brand ReactBrand TypescriptStethoscopeSolar PanelAmbulanceDatabaseTerminal 2Brand Figma

Design consistency

Both icon sets use a 24px grid with 1.5px stroke and rounded line caps. The visual DNA is nearly identical — you can often tell them apart only by looking closely at corners and proportions.

Heroicons’ smaller set is easier to maintain visually consistent across a focused product. Tabler’s larger set occasionally shows minor visual inconsistencies at the 5,000+ scale, but overall quality is excellent.

React integration

# Heroicons
npm install @heroicons/react

# Tabler
npm install @tabler/icons-react

// Heroicons — import from outline/solid paths
import { HomeIcon } from "@heroicons/react/24/outline";
<HomeIcon className="h-5 w-5" />;

// Tabler — all icons in one flat import
import { IconHome } from "@tabler/icons-react";
<IconHome size={20} stroke={1.5} />;

Tabler’s flat import is slightly more convenient — no need to choose an outline/solid sub-path. Both are tree-shakeable.

Vue & Svelte support

• Heroicons: @heroicons/vue (official Vue package)
• Tabler: Works via Iconify for Vue/Svelte; no official first-party package

For Vue projects, Heroicons has better official support. For Svelte, both work well through Iconify.

When to choose each

Frequently asked questions