SVGRepo Alternatives – Open-Source Icon Sites With Clear Licensing
SVGRepo aggregates icons under mixed, sometimes unclear licenses. Here's where to get the same icons with a verified open-source license attached to every pack.
SVGRepo is a large aggregator — hundreds of thousands of icons pulled from many different sources into one searchable site. That scale is also its main weakness: licensing is applied per-collection and isn’t always easy to verify, and some collections mix commercial and free-for-personal-use terms in ways that are easy to miss at download time.
This isn’t a claim that SVGRepo’s icons are unlicensed or improperly sourced — it’s a licensing-clarity problem. When you need to know exactly what license covers an icon before shipping it in a commercial product, a site built around individually-licensed, verifiable open-source packs is the safer default.
What this site does differently
Every icon here traces back to a single named open-source pack — Lucide, Tabler, Heroicons, Simple Icons, and 200+ others — each with one clearly stated license (MIT, CC0, Apache 2.0, or Open Font License) shown on the pack page itself. There’s no aggregation layer obscuring which license applies to which icon.
Where to go for what SVGRepo is commonly used for
| Need | Pack |
|---|---|
| General UI icons (buttons, nav, forms) | Lucide or Tabler |
| Brand / company logos | Simple Icons (CC0) |
| Material Design–style icons | Material Symbols or MDI |
| Colorful, filled icon style | Solar or Fluent |
| Hand-drawn / doodle style | Browse collections for illustration-adjacent packs |
| Bulk download by category | Collections group packs by theme (social, e-commerce, weather, etc.) |
How to verify a license before shipping
Every pack page on this site links directly to that pack’s license file on its source repository — check it once per project, not per icon. MIT and CC0 packs need no attribution for commercial use (MIT technically requires preserving the license notice in your project, not a visible on-page credit); Open Font License packs have specific terms around font-embedding that don’t apply when you’re using standalone SVGs.