App Icon Sizes for iOS, iPadOS, macOS & Android: The Only Cheat Sheet You Need (2026)
Every app icon size you need in 2026 — iOS, iPadOS, macOS and Android — in one cheat sheet. The exact pixel dimensions, why they exist, and how to export them all from one file.
I have Googled "app icon sizes" more times than I'd like to admit. Every time I shipped an app, or ported one to a new platform, I'd end up in the same tab-storm — Apple's docs in one window, a Stack Overflow answer from 2019 in another, a blog post citing sizes for phones that no longer exist in a third. So I finally wrote the version I always wished existed: one page, current for 2026, that ends the Googling.
Bookmark this. It's the app icon sizes cheat sheet for every platform, plus the one thing that makes all of these tables mostly irrelevant (spoiler: you export them from a single file now).
The two you actually upload to a store
Before the dozens of on-device sizes, these are the two that get you listed:
| Store | Icon size | Format notes |
|---|---|---|
| Apple App Store (iOS / iPadOS / macOS) | 1024 × 1024 px | PNG, no alpha/transparency, square — Apple rounds the corners for you |
| Google Play Store | 512 × 512 px | 32-bit PNG with alpha |
Get these two right and your listing is valid. Everything below is about the icon inside the app, on the device.
iOS & iPadOS app icon sizes
Here's the good news that changed everything: since Xcode 14, you provide one 1024 × 1024 source in a "Single Size" app icon slot and Xcode generates every variant. You rarely hand-cut these anymore. But when you need the explicit iOS app icon size table — legacy projects, non-Xcode toolchains, or you just want to know — here it is in pixels:
| Use | iPhone | iPad |
|---|---|---|
| App icon | 180 × 180 (@3x), 120 × 120 (@2x) | 167 × 167 (iPad Pro), 152 × 152 (@2x) |
| Spotlight | 120 × 120 (@3x), 80 × 80 (@2x) | 80 × 80 (@2x), 40 × 40 (@1x) |
| Settings | 87 × 87 (@3x), 58 × 58 (@2x) | 58 × 58 (@2x), 29 × 29 (@1x) |
| Notifications | 60 × 60 (@3x), 40 × 40 (@2x) | 40 × 40 (@2x), 20 × 20 (@1x) |
| App Store | 1024 × 1024 | 1024 × 1024 |
Design at 1024 and never bake in text or rounded corners — the OS masks the shape.
macOS app icon sizes
macOS wants a full ladder of sizes so the icon stays crisp from the Dock to a tiny list row. The AppIcon set is seven sizes, each with a @1x and @2x, running from 16 × 16 up to 1024 × 1024:
| Base (pt) | @1x | @2x |
|---|---|---|
| 16 | 16 × 16 | 32 × 32 |
| 32 | 32 × 32 | 64 × 64 |
| 128 | 128 × 128 | 256 × 256 |
| 256 | 256 × 256 | 512 × 512 |
| 512 | 512 × 512 | 1024 × 1024 |
macOS icons can have transparency and a non-square silhouette — but if you're shipping a modern app, following the rounded-square system look is the safer call.
Android app icon sizes
Android is the messy one, because it has two systems layered on top of each other.
The Play Store listing icon: 512 × 512 px, 32-bit PNG.
Adaptive icons (Android 8.0+): you supply two layers — foreground and background — each 108 × 108 dp, where only the center 72 × 72 dp is the guaranteed "safe zone" (the OS masks the outer ring into circles, squircles, rounded squares, etc. depending on the launcher). Design the important part inside that safe zone.
Legacy launcher icons by density bucket, in pixels:
| Density | Size |
|---|---|
| mdpi | 48 × 48 |
| hdpi | 72 × 72 |
| xhdpi | 96 × 96 |
| xxhdpi | 144 × 144 |
| xxxhdpi | 192 × 192 |
The part that makes all of this a non-problem
Here's the honest truth after all those tables: you should not be exporting these by hand. That's exactly the busywork that sent me Googling in the first place. Design your icon once at 1024 × 1024, then run it through the free App Icon Resizer and it spits out every size above — the App Store 1024, the Play 512, the full iOS/iPadOS/macOS ladders, and the Android densities — packaged and ready to drop in. The tables are useful to understand; the tool is what you actually use.
This is the same reason I keep a screenshot size reference instead of hand-managing those exports too. Know the numbers, but let a tool do the cutting.
The 2026 rules of thumb
If you remember nothing else from the cheat sheet:
- Design once at 1024 × 1024, square, no transparency (except where a platform explicitly allows it), no baked-in rounded corners.
- Never put text in the icon — it turns to mush at 40 px and the OS masks the shape anyway.
- Respect the safe zone, especially on Android's adaptive icons — keep the meaningful part centered.
- Export, don't hand-cut. One source file → every size, automatically.
That's the whole thing. The next time you ship — or port to a new platform — you don't need the tab-storm. You need this page and one 1024 × 1024 file.
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