@SmolMacApp

The everything compressor for Mac. Images, PDFs, and videos — compressed locally using best-in-class encoders. Lives in your menu bar.

 San Francisco
smolmac.com
Joined May 2026
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Compress images, PDFs, and videos in seconds. Right on your Mac.
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Average web page weight today: Mostly images. A bit of script. A tiny bit of text. The image budget is the performance budget.
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Future-you will thank present-you for: project_hero_1600w_q75.webp Not: Final_v3_FINAL_real.png
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Post a site with beautiful image use. Not just pretty. Useful.
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The fastest image “optimization”: Resize before you compress. A 6000px photo on a 1200px container is 80% wasted bytes.
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Free online compressor = – Slow upload – Slow download – Quality you can’t verify – Your file on someone else’s server The price isn’t zero. It’s just hidden.
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Show us the fastest beautiful site you’ve built.
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“Quality” in compression isn’t a number. It’s whether anyone can tell. If you can’t see the loss, the loss isn’t there.
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Your hero image is your loading time. If it’s 3MB: Your landing page is 3MB. Nothing else you do matters until you fix that.
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Show us a site you made that feels expensive.
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Drop your sharpest landing page. We’ll judge gently.
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Post a design you’re proud of that nobody noticed enough.
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Most “huge” PDFs are huge because of: 1. Uncompressed images inside them 2. Embedded fonts you’re not using 3. Old scanned pages Fix #1 and you usually fix the file.
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Quick image format cheat sheet: – Photos → JPEG or AVIF – UI, logos, transparency → PNG or WebP – Animations → WebP, not GIF – Print → don’t compress, archive original The format does half the work.
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Drop your most Apple-like website design.
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Your thumbnails shouldn’t be your full images, scaled down by the browser. That’s how a “fast” page ends up downloading 40MB.
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Drop your cleanest ecom product page.
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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.
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The apps people love most usually have one thing in common: Restraint.
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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.
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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.
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