Bulk image compressor and optimizer: reduce JPG and PNG file size, whole folders, free, offline

Yes. Compress Images and Find Duplicates are free in AwaCut, with no limit, no account and no watermark. Only Remove Background and Convert Images need a licence after their 10 free photos.

Use the first step of the slider. For JPG it is quality 90, which looks the same as the original; for PNG the first two steps keep every pixel. To compress JPEG photos further, quality 80 is still hard to tell from the original at normal size.

In our test, 10 camera JPGs came out 60% smaller at quality 80, the default step, and 71% smaller at quality 70, with no difference you could see side by side. PNG photos without transparency shrink less in the lossless steps, about 10%. PNG cutouts from background removers often shrink by half or more, because they carry hidden colour under the transparent areas.

Yes. Drop the folder on Compress Images and every JPG and PNG in it, subfolders included, is compressed in one run. The copies go to a separate folder.

No. Compress Images keeps the width and height of every photo and makes the file smaller. To change the size in pixels, use a photo editor or Preview on a Mac.

No. HEIC and AVIF are already compressed formats, and AwaCut leaves them out of the list with a note. To make an iPhone photo smaller, convert it to JPG first with Convert Images (on a Mac), then compress the JPG.

Yes. AwaCut runs on Windows 10 and 11, on Mac and on Linux, and compresses photos with no internet connection. GIMP 3 also works offline, one photo at a time.

Drop the folder on Compress Images in AwaCut, pick a step and every JPG and PNG in it is compressed in one run, subfolders included, into a separate folder. To compress multiple images you do not need to add them one by one.

Not to an exact number. You pick a step from High Quality to Smallest File and see the result's size before saving. For a size limit on a form, start at the default step and move to a smaller one until the photo fits.

Drop the photos or their folder on Compress Images and pick a step. For JPG the steps are quality 90, 80, 70, 60 and 50, and at the default 80 our camera JPGs came out 60% smaller.

Yes: online tools such as Squoosh and TinyPNG shrink the file in the browser, one photo or a few at a time. AwaCut is the desktop way: Compress Images shrinks a whole folder for free, with no upload. It keeps the width and height, so to change the size in pixels use a photo editor or Preview on a Mac.

Yes, in steps: Compress Images lowers JPG quality from 90 down to 50 to make each file smaller, and the width and height stay the same. You see the result's size before saving, and it is free with no limit.

Make the files smaller: Compress Images shrinks a whole folder of JPG and PNG for free, and Convert Images turns them into WebP, which came out 58% smaller than JPG in our test. Neither changes the size in pixels, so start from photos at the width your site shows.

Yes. TinyPNG uploads your photos; Compress Images in AwaCut works on your own computer, free, with no limit, a whole folder of JPG and PNG at once. Squoosh is free too and works in the browser without uploading, one photo at a time.

Yes. Compress Images is free with no limit: drop JPEG photos or a whole folder, pick one of five steps, and you see the new size before saving. The photos stay JPEG and keep their width and height.