Google Play app icon requirements
The published requirements are already set. Add your image and FileBelow makes it match — 512×512 · under 1.02 MB · PNG.
JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, AVIF and BMP. Your file is processed on your device.
Exactly 512 by 512 pixels, 32-bit PNG with an alpha channel, and at most 1024 KB. Because the icon must keep its alpha channel, FileBelow will not offer to convert it to JPEG.
Official source · checked 2026-08-21
The published requirements
| Exact dimensions | 512×512 px |
|---|---|
| Maximum file size | 1.02 MB |
| Accepted formats | PNG |
Read from support.google.com on .
Platforms change their requirements without notice. If this page disagrees with the source, the source is right — please tell us so we can correct it. Changes are recorded in the changelog.
What Google Play app icon means in practice
Exactly 512 by 512 pixels, 32-bit PNG with an alpha channel, and at most 1024 KB. Because the icon must keep its alpha channel, FileBelow will not offer to convert it to JPEG.
The store listing cannot be published until the icon meets the specification exactly.
Where this image actually appears
The icon shown on the Play Store listing, in search results, and in the recommendation rows on the store home page. It is not the icon on the device — that comes from the app package itself — so the two can differ, and a listing whose store icon does not match the launcher icon looks like a different app.
Preparing one properly
Design for the smallest place it appears rather than the largest. In a search result it is a few millimetres across, so one strong shape and two colours will read where a detailed illustration turns to mud. Avoid text entirely: at that size a word is a grey smudge, and the app name is already printed next to it.
The mistake people make
Baking rounded corners or a drop shadow into the artwork. The store applies its own masking and shading, so an icon that arrives pre-rounded ends up with a second, visibly mismatched corner radius inside the first.
Meeting the requirements
Choosing Google Play above sets every rule in the table at once, and the result panel reports each one with a pass or a fail rather than leaving you to check. Because Google Play specifies exact dimensions, the image is cropped from the centre rather than stretched, and the byte search is not allowed to go below 512×512 — if a size limit cannot be met at those dimensions, the page says so instead of quietly breaking the rule that matters more.
To see what is wrong before changing anything, the Google Play requirement check reports every rule against your file without processing it.
Common questions
- What size should a Google Play app icon be?
- 512×512 · under 1.02 MB · PNG. Those are the values published by Google Play itself, read from its documentation on 2026-08-21 — the source link is on this page so you can check it. Platforms change requirements without announcing it, so verify before anything important.
- Is the Play Store icon the same as the app launcher icon?
- No. The launcher icon ships inside the app package; this one is uploaded to the store listing separately. They should look like the same brand, and they are two different files with different requirements — matching them is a design decision, not something the store enforces.
- Should the icon include the app name?
- Almost never. The name is displayed beside the icon everywhere the icon appears, so text inside it is redundant at best, and at search-result size it is illegible. The space is better spent on one distinctive shape that stays recognisable when it is very small.
- Is my image uploaded when I use this page?
- No. The image is opened, measured and processed by your own browser. This site is entirely static and has no server that could receive a file, which you can confirm in your browser’s network tab or by going offline after the page has loaded.