Add a Background to an Icon
Put a solid tile behind a transparent icon so it survives JPG conversion, email, and stores that reject alpha.
Describe the edit — the AI assistant does it on the canvas.
2 free credits · No signup · ~10 seconds
Drop a transparent icon
PNG, JPG, WebP or SVG — up to 30 MB
Runs entirely in your browser. Your image is never uploaded.
When an icon needs a plate
Filled behind, never over
The colour is composited underneath, so it appears only where the icon is transparent. The glyph is untouched and its anti-aliased edges blend into the new colour instead of against a checkerboard.
App stores usually reject transparency
Both major app stores require a fully opaque icon and will reject an upload with an alpha channel. Filling the background yourself means you choose the colour rather than discovering what their pipeline picked.
The black square problem
Systems that ignore alpha render it as black. A transparent icon that looks right locally can arrive as a black tile in an email client or an older viewer — conspicuous, and entirely avoidable.
Choosing the tile colour
Match the surface it will sit on, or pick a deliberate brand colour. What does not work is a near-miss: the eye finds the edge of a rectangle that is almost but not quite the background colour immediately.
Nothing moves
Only transparent pixels are filled. Width and height are unchanged, so the glyph stays exactly where it was. Use the padding tool if you also want a margin around it.
How to add a background to an icon
Upload the icon
Drop in a transparent icon PNG.
Pick the tile colour
White by default, or match the surface or brand colour you need.
Download
Take a free preview, or download the full-resolution file with one credit.
Where a solid tile is needed
App store submissions
Meet the opaque-icon requirement both major stores enforce.
Email clients
Stop a transparent icon arriving as a black tile.
JPG-only uploads
Decide the fill colour yourself rather than leaving it to an encoder.
Branded tiles
Put a deliberate brand colour behind a glyph.
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What people use it for
The jobs the editor was built around — and what it does differently on each one.
Colourways you can revisit
Every edit is a layer, not a bake. When the brand shifts, reopen the file and change the colour rather than rebuilding the variant from the original.
Cutouts with awkward edges
AI background removal that keeps hair, foliage and soft shadows instead of stamping a hard outline around them. The output is a transparent PNG, ready to place.
No export, edit, re-import loop
The Framer plugin runs on the canvas you are already working in, so a recolour or a cutout does not mean a round trip through a second application.
Ten options in the time one used to take
Recolour once and step through the alternatives, so a client review can look at the whole range instead of the one version there was time to make.
Brand colours matched exactly
Pick a colour straight off an existing asset and get the hex, rather than eyeballing it against a screenshot and hoping it is close enough.
Free to preview, priced per export
Previewing is unlimited and costs nothing. A credit is spent only when you download a full-resolution file, so exploring an idea is never the expensive part.
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Add a background to your icon
Upload, pick the tile colour, and download the flattened icon.