🆚 Ionicons vs. Material Icons

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Ionicons is three times more popular than Material Icons.
🌎 Ionicons is more popular in the United States, Thailand, and Italy.
🌍 Material Icons is more popular in Japan, Israel, and Kyrgyzstan.

Ionicons

Material Icons

Type

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 Icons is an official icon library created by Google that provides standardized interface icons designed according to the Material Design guidelines.

The set includes thousands of icons across categories such as navigation, communication, media, and editing, and is available in SVG, PNG, and icon font formats, with variants such as filled, outlined, rounded, sharp, and two-tone styles.

Headquarters

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Mountain View, California, United States

Website

ionic.io/ionicons/ #427,945

developers.google.com

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Ionicons library is 3 times more popular than Material Icons.

Total websites

Market share

Icons

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Ionicons is more popular in the United States, Thailand, and Italy, while Material Icons is more popular in Japan, Israel, and Kyrgyzstan.

United States

Thailand

Italy

Japan

Germany

United Kingdom

Spain

India

France

China