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.
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Drop a transparent icon
PNG, JPG, WebP or SVG — up to 20 MB
Drop several at once — you can edit them all together in the app.
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.
Or just ask
Describe the edit in your own words
Type what you want changed and the assistant does it on the canvas — each step lands as a layer you can reopen, so nothing it does is baked in.
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Add a background to your icon
Upload, pick the tile colour, and download the flattened icon.