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Curtail

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Curtail (previously ImCompressor) is a useful image compressor, supporting PNG and JPEG file types. It support both lossless and lossy compression modes with an option to whether keep or not metadata of images. It is inspired by .

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Platforms

  • Linux
  • Flatpak
  • Flathub
  • GNOME
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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  No registration required
  2.  No Tracking
  3.  Ad-free
  4.  Image Optimizer
  5.  File Compression

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Curtail information

  • Developed by

    Hugo Posnic
  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 5
  • Alternatives

    55 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • German
    • Spanish
    • French
    • Galician
    • Croatian
    • Italian
    • Korean
    • Dutch
    • Polish
    • Russian
    • Slovak
    • Swedish
    • Turkish

AlternativeTo Categories

File ManagementPhotos & GraphicsOS & Utilities

GitHub repository

  •  401 Stars
  •  40 Forks
  •  19 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jun 9, 2025 
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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about Curtail, and it has gotten 6 likes

Curtail was added to AlternativeTo by Malaz YI on Oct 10, 2019 and this page was last updated May 16, 2024.

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Top Positive Comment
Jake Rayson
Dec 16, 2022
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I have moved from Mac to Linux, used to use ImageOptim all the time, simple, lovely little app. Curtail does the same, for PNG, JPEG and WebP image formats. Seems pretty cool, I've created an icon for it on the desktop :)

What is Curtail?

Curtail (previously ImCompressor) is a useful image compressor, supporting PNG and JPEG file types. It support both lossless and lossy compression modes with an option to whether keep or not metadata of images. It is inspired by Trimage icon Trimage and Image-Optimizer.

Supported formats: PNG, JPEG