🆚 Ionicons vs. Material Design Icons

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Ionicons is much more popular than Material Design Icons.
🌎 Ionicons is more popular in Thailand, the United States, and Italy.
🌍 Material Design Icons is more popular in Cuba.

Material Design Icons

Type

Icon library

Icon library

About

Ionicons is an open-source icon set with 1,300 icons built for Ionic Framework, so icons have both Material Design and iOS versions.

Material Design Icons is a community-maintained open-source icon set that follows Google's Material Design guidelines for consistent interface graphics.

It includes over 7,000 icons in multiple styles and formats such as SVG, PNG, and web fonts, supports NPM distribution, provides packages for frameworks like React, Vue, and Angular, and offers a searchable catalog with categorized icons.

Headquarters

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Website

ionic.io/ionicons/ #427,945

pictogrammers.com/library/mdi/ #423,083

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Icons › Rank #2

Icons › Rank #16

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Ionicons library is 13 times more popular than Material Design Icons.

Total websites

Market share

Icons

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Ionicons is more popular in Thailand, the United States, and Italy, while Material Design Icons is more popular in Cuba.

Thailand

United States

Italy

Germany

United Kingdom

China

India

Spain

France

Japan

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in Thailand in the Icons category.
🥈 Second most popular in China in the Icons category.
🥈 Second most popular in Canada in the Icons category.
🥈 Second most popular in Vietnam in the Icons category.
🥈 Second most popular in Cambodia in the Icons category.

⭐ 9th most popular in Russia in the Icons category.
⭐ 9th most popular in Ireland in the Icons category.
⭐ 10th most popular in Iran in the Icons category.
⭐ 10th most popular in Taiwan in the Icons category.
🔥 12nd most popular in Japan in the Icons category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Ionicons is more popular than Material Design Icons in all market segments.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Blogs/Wiki

Education/Reference

Online Shopping

Internet Services

Travel

Entertainment

Health

Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

loteriadehoy.com

#1,404

ceowestbengal.nic.in

#3,455

#3,722

javmost.com

#4,058

#4,136

Name

Rank

#3,369

#3,567

f95zone.to

#3,795

hanime.tv

#4,147

#5,854

Compare alternatives

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See also

Material Design Icons technology profile

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Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
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