Lineicons is a professional icon library — almost 28,000 icons across 10 styles, sold as a one-time license rather than a subscription, with an official Figma plugin and a free CDN. It's solid, but it costs real money ($59-$799 depending on seats and license scope), and if you're building a React app that just needs a clean set of animated icons, there's a newer generation of free, open-source libraries built exactly for that job.
The short version: want the biggest free catalog of animated icons? LivelyIcons has 1,300+ icons and 14 animation styles. Want icons that animate at the actual SVG path level, not just scale or fade? AnimateIcons is built specifically for that, backed by Vercel's open-source program. Prefer a small, curated, design-consistent set? Iconimate keeps it to 212 icons on the Phosphor design system. Already using shadcn/ui? Its Hover installs natively into that workflow.
AnimateIcons
AnimateIcons offers 542 open-source SVG icons across two sets (Lucide and Huge) that animate at the path level rather than a simple scale or fade — a real motion system, not a CSS trick. It's tree-shakeable and compatible with React Server Components, and it's backed by Vercel's Open Source program (1.1k GitHub stars).
Good for: React developers who specifically want path-level icon animation and don't mind a mid-sized catalog. Watch out for: the catalog (542) is modest next to LivelyIcons' 1,300+, and like every option here, it depends on a community project for long-term maintenance.
Iconimate
Iconimate is a small, hand-built library of 212 animated React icons based on the Phosphor design system, installable individually through the shadcn registry with command-palette (⌘K) search.
Good for: developers who'd rather have a restricted, visually consistent icon set than a massive catalog with inconsistent styles. Watch out for: it's the smallest catalog of the four (212 icons) and the youngest project (41 GitHub stars), so coverage gaps and maintenance risk are both real.
Its Hover
Its Hover packages 186+ animated icon components for React with motion built into every hover state, and installs natively into shadcn/ui and Next.js projects with fully editable source code.
Good for: teams already standardized on shadcn/ui who want hover-animated icons that drop straight in. Watch out for: the smallest raw icon count of the animated options (186+), and — like the rest — no paid tier means no guaranteed support.
LivelyIcons
LivelyIcons is the largest free option: 1,300+ animated icons across 14 distinct animation styles, tree-shakeable enough to cut bundle size by up to 98% when importing a single icon, and it automatically respects prefers-reduced-motion for accessibility.
Good for: developers who want real breadth — many icons, many animation styles — without paying for Lineicons' catalog. Watch out for: a catalog this size has less visual consistency than a curated set like Iconimate, and it's still a community project with no commercial backing.
All four, plus Lineicons, side by side
| Tool | Icons | Animation | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lineicons | ~28,000 | Static SVG | $59-$799 one-time |
| AnimateIcons | 542 | Path-level, React Server Components-ready | Free (MIT) |
| Iconimate | 212 | Phosphor-based, shadcn registry | Free (MIT) |
| Its Hover | 186+ | Hover-triggered, shadcn/Next.js native | Free (Apache 2.0) |
| LivelyIcons | 1,300+ | 14 styles, accessibility-aware | Free (MIT) |
None of these four match Lineicons' raw catalog size — that's the trade-off for paying nothing. But if the project is a React app and the icons need actual motion rather than a static SVG, all four beat Lineicons on the thing that actually matters for that use case. Go with LivelyIcons for breadth, AnimateIcons for Server Components and path-level animation, Iconimate for a small consistent set, or Its Hover if shadcn/ui is already the stack.