Yes. The free version compresses up to 30 images a day. Squeezels Pro removes the daily limit and unlocks converting between formats. Get it monthly, yearly, or once for life.

How do the Pro subscriptions work?

Monthly and yearly plans renew automatically through your Apple ID until you cancel. Cancel anytime in Settings → Manage Subscription, or in your App Store account; Pro stays on until the end of the period you paid for. Prefer to pay once? Lifetime is a single purchase, and you can switch to it from a subscription at any time.

Are my images uploaded anywhere?

Never. Every image is processed on your Mac by encoders bundled inside the app. Squeezels collects no data at all — purchases are handled by Apple.

Which formats are supported?

Compress JPEG, PNG, HEIC, WebP and AVIF. With Pro, convert any image macOS can open — TIFF, GIF, BMP, PSD, RAW and more — to any of those five.

How do I convert HEIC to JPG on a Mac?

Drop your HEIC photos onto Squeezels, choose Convert and pick JPEG — one image per CPU core, with EXIF and GPS stripped by default. Converting between formats is part of Squeezels Pro; the free version compresses HEIC files in place.

Will compression make my files worse?

You choose the quality. PNG compression is lossless, and if a compressed file isn't smaller than the original, Squeezels keeps the original.

How do I restore Pro on another Mac?

Open Settings and choose Restore Purchases. Whether you subscribed or bought Lifetime, Pro follows your Apple ID to every Mac you own.

For Mac · Private by design

Squeezels — Image Compressor & Converter for Mac

Compress & convert images on your Mac

Smaller files, the same beautiful pixels. Every image is squeezed right on your Mac — nothing is ever uploaded.

JPEGPNGHEICWebPAVIF

Download on theMac App Store See how it works

Free download · macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Mac with Apple silicon

smaller, up to

output formats

0 bytes

uploaded, ever

image per CPU core

How it works

Three steps. Zero fuss.

Squeezels lives in your Dock, your Finder and your menu bar, so it's always one drag away.

A forest river photo, before and after compression on a Mac

6.8 MB

1
Drop
Drag images or whole folders onto the window, the Dock icon or the menu bar. Hidden files and photo libraries are skipped for you.
2
Choose
Compress in place, or convert to JPEG, PNG, HEIC, WebP or AVIF. Pick a quality, a size and where results go.
3
Done
Every core gets to work. Each row shows the before and after size, and a running total shows how much you saved.

Compare

Can you spot the difference?

Drag the divider. On the left, the original. On the right, the same photo after Squeezels — a quarter of the size.

The same horses photo after Squeezels, a quarter of the size

Original · 4.2 MBSqueezed · 1.1 MB

Sample figures. Real savings depend on the photo and the quality you pick.

Formats

Five formats. Best-in-class encoders.

Each format gets the encoder that does it best, bundled right inside the app. Convert HEIC to JPEG, PNG to WebP, anything to AVIF — no setup, no command line.

JPEG

Smarter JPEG encoding — the same photo in far fewer bytes.

mozjpeg

PNG

Lossless only. Every pixel stays exactly as it was.

oxipng

HEIC

The format your iPhone shoots, encoded natively.

Apple ImageIO

WebP

The web's workhorse format, tuned for small pages.

libwebp

AVIF

Next-gen compression for the tiniest files of all.

libavif

Convert · Pro

Any image in.
Modern formats out.

Old TIFFs, layered PSDs, camera RAWs: anything macOS can open becomes a lean, modern file in one drop.

From

6000 × 4000

AVIF

IMG_0412.avif

from TIFF · 10.4 MB → 2.1 MB

80% smaller

Illustrative sizes for a 24-megapixel photo. Real results depend on the image.

Features

Everything you need. Nothing you don't.

A batch image compressor built for photographers, designers and developers who just want smaller files without thinking about it.

Forest photo, one of a batch of images compressed together

Folders · Finder · Dock

Batch everything

Drop hundreds of files or entire folders. Squeezels scans them, then works on one image per CPU core.

River photo with its EXIF and GPS metadata removed

EXIF · GPS · Privacy

Strip the metadata

EXIF and GPS removed by default, so your photos don't tell the world where you took them. Orientation is kept right.

4096 · 2560 · 1920 · 1280 px

Resize as you go

Original size, or cap the longest edge at 4096, 2560, 1920 or 1280 px — handy for web uploads.

Never bigger

If a result isn't smaller, it's discarded. Your file is marked “Already optimal”.

Save your way

Save to a folder, overwrite the original, or keep a copy with an -optimized suffix.

Quality slider

From 10% to 100%. 80% is the sweet spot, and it's the default.

Compare

A draggable before/after divider — even after overwriting the original.

Open at login

Keep Squeezels ready in the menu bar from the moment your Mac starts.

Up to 250 MP

Huge panoramas and RAW files are welcome.

Menu bar

Drop it on the menu bar.

Drag files onto the Squeezels icon at the top of your screen. A little panel asks Compress or Convert, shows progress, tells you what you saved — then fades away. No window needed.