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Flaca – losslessly compress GIF, JPEG and PNG images

September 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Flaca is a Rust command-line tool for maximally and losslessly compressing GIF, JPEG and PNG images for production web use.

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Images

cavif – convert PNG and JPEG images to AVIF

September 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

cavif is a pure-Rust command-line tool that converts PNG and JPEG images to AVIF with quality, speed and colour controls.

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Compression

12 Best Free and Open Source GUI Image Compression Tools

September 8, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

Data compression is the process of storing data in a format that uses less space than the original representation would use.

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Compression

MAZANOKE – private browser-based image optimizer

September 5, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

MAZANOKE is a self-hosted image optimizer that works locally in your browser, compresses and converts images, and removes EXIF metadata.

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Image Optimizer – fast private image optimization

September 5, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Image Optimizer is a desktop app for compressing JPEG, PNG, GIF and SVG images, converting to WebP and processing files locally.

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DropWebP – convert and compress images

March 29, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

DropWebP is a cross-platform desktop application designed to convert and compress images using a straightforward drag-and-drop interface.

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Images

tinifier – image compression tool

August 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

tinifier is a CLI tool for compressing images using the TinyPNG API, with parallel processing to speed up the workflow.

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Halftone gives images a pixel art-like style

May 19, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Halftone is a simple Libadwaita app for lossy image compression using quantization and dithering techniques.

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Images

ECT – fast and effective C++ file optimizer

January 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Efficient Compression Tool (or ECT) is a C++ file optimizer. It supports PNG, JPEG, GZIP and ZIP files.

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Images

JPEG Archive – utilities for archive JPEGs for long term storage

January 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

JPEG Archive is a small collection of utilities for archiving photos for saving to long term storage or serving over the web.

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Compression

OptiImage – GUI image compressor

January 7, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Optimize your images with OptiImage, a useful image compressor that supports PNG, JPEG, WebP and SVG file types.

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Compression

E-Mage – cross-platform tool for losslessly image compression

August 9, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics

E-Mage is a cross-platform tool for losslessly image compression.

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XL Converter – easy-to-use image converter for modern formats

August 9, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews

XL Converter is billed as an easy-to-use image converter for modern formats.

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Images

YOGA – Yummy Optimizer for Gorgeous Assets

June 12, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

YOGA is a command-line tool and a library that can convert and optimize images and 3D models.

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Images

Optimizt – optimize images for the web

June 4, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Optimizt is an image optimization tool for PNG, JPEG, GIF and SVG, with AVIF and WebP generation and configurable lossy or lossless modes.

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Images

libjpeg-turbo – high-performance JPEG image codec

November 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

libjpeg-turbo is a high-performance JPEG codec using SIMD acceleration, with libjpeg and TurboJPEG APIs, command-line tools and lossless transforms.

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Images

libjxl – reference implementation of JPEG XL

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews

JPEG XL is a royalty-free raster-graphics file format that supports both lossy and lossless compression.

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Images

QOI – The Quite OK Image Format

November 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews

QOI is an image encoder which claims to be fast 20-50 times compressing and 3-4 times faster decompressing compared to the Libpng library.

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Images

Crunch – lossy PNG image file optimization

October 28, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews

Crunch is a command line executable that performs lossy optimization of one or more PNG image files with pngquant and zopflipng.

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Compression

Image Optimizer – simple lossless image optimizer

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Image Optimizer is a simple program that provides lossless compression.

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