pngquant Alternatives

Apps similar to pngquant include File Converter, which is free and open source. Other options are ImageMagick, Caesium Image Compressor, Dinky and XnConvert. Image Optimizers like pngquant are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, the web and Android.

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    Leanify is a lightweight lossless file minifier/optimizer. It removes unnecessary data (debug information, comments, metadata, etc.) and recompress the file to reduce file size. It will not reduce image quality at all.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. Optimus.io icon
     12 likes

    optimus.io offers lossless compression of images available with a WordPress plugin and via API.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Wordpress
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  3. Imgbot.net icon
     1 like

    Don’t spend another second worrying about compressing your images. Install Imgbot into your GitHub projects, and focus on your application.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  4. Shrinker Pro icon
     2 likes

    Free native macOS image compressor for Apple Silicon. Drop PNG, JPEG, GIF, SVG, WebP, AVIF or HEIC files onto the window and get smaller copies beside the originals.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Homebrew
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  5. ETK Image Compressor Pro is a fast, lightweight Windows app that drastically reduces image file sizes while keeping excellent visual quality. Supports adjustable quality for WebP,PNG, TGA, EXR, JPEG, batch compression, 8K images, and works fully offline.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. Compress or convert images on the web with offline support. Images are not uploaded on server and processed on client with webassembly. Support for formats like JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and JXL.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  7. jStrip icon
     2 likes

    jStrip is a free tool to reduce the file size of JPEG images without sacrificing image quality. High-traffic websites with many JPEG images can benefit from decreased bandwidth costs. Less hard disk space will be used by image collectors.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8. With JPEG Resampler you are able to change the resolution and size of JPEG images of a directory in one go and move them into another folder.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. Crunch icon
     1 like

    Crunch - Insane(ly slow but wicked good) PNG image optimization. It combines selective bit depth, color type, and color palette reduction with zopfli DEFLATE compression algorithm encoding using embedded versions of the pngquant and zopflipng PNG optimization tools.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  10. Free EXIF Eraser is a free lightweight software that allows you to easily and effectively delete entire EXIF/IPTC/XMP information from image files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. Squeezer icon
     1 like

    Squeezer is a PNG optimizer for Mac OSX that recompresses image files to a smaller size, without losing any information.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  12. JPEG Reducer icon
     2 likes

    The JPEG Reducer is a frontend of the command line utility jpegtran, which is the lossless transformations expert inside the Independent JPEG Group's JPEG software package. The JPEG Reducer provides a graphical user interface, batch processing, a preview of the optimization...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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