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Compress images, PDFs, and videos in seconds. Right on your Mac.

Your thumbnails shouldn’t be your full images, scaled down by the browser. That’s how a “fast” page ends up downloading 40MB.

Drop your cleanest ecom product page.

Quick privacy win: Before uploading any image anywhere, strip the metadata. It’s a 2-second habit that closes a door most people don’t know is open.

The apps people love most usually have one thing in common: Restraint.

Email rejected your PDF again? It’s not the email. It’s the 14 high-res screenshots you embedded. Compress the PDF, not your standards.

File craft is a real skill: – Right format – Right size – Right name – Right place People won’t notice when you nail it. They always notice when you don’t.

Designers, save yourself a “can you resend, smaller?” email: Compress before you send. Clients notice the speed. Not the savings.

Drop a site that proves speed and beauty can live together.

Show us your best visual-first website.

Tiny apps are underrated. Open instantly. Do the job. Get out of the way.

Designers: Post one site you wish more people had seen.

Post a site where typography carries the whole design.

You don’t need 4K for a product demo. 1080p at the right bitrate looks identical on every screen people actually use — and ships in a fraction of the size.

Show us a site that feels simple but clearly took forever.

Cmd-I on a folder in Finder. Look at the size. 90% of Macs have 20GB of images and PDFs that could be 2GB without anyone noticing.

Most photos look identical at: JPEG quality 75. You were shipping them at 100 and paying for the difference no one can see.

Rule for compressing anything important: 1. Keep the original. 2. Compress a copy. 3. Never overwrite the source. Compression should never be a one-way door.

Drop a site you built with images under control. Rare art.

Most software keeps adding things. We became obsessed with removing them.

Hidden Mac power move: Quick Look (spacebar) before you compress anything. Half the time you’ll realize you don’t even need the file.