Squash — Web Image Compression - パソコン用

Need a refund. Does not save files on Mojave.

I can always go free with open source tools, but when you have a well-designed Mac app that just works fast and easy like this, I’m happy to pay for it. That said, I do hope the file type in/out options expand over time. TIFF/JPG/PNG doesn’t cover a lot of ground. And if there’s any FEATURE I’d say was missing, it would be the option to set a megabyte limit for a batch. Enter a value, and the compression would vary on each image to automatically limit file size to that value. Otherwise, nice work.

Is it just me or does this app not work with either High Sierra or Mojave? It looks and sounds like it's doing something but yields no results. No new saved files. No file size decrease. Does this on a MBP running High Sierra and also on an iMac running Mojave. Maybe it's me. Maybe I'm missing something. I've watched the "Getting Started" video on Realmac's website, but what I see there and what I experience are not the same. Mac App Store says compatible with High Sierra and above. Realmac's website says macOS 10.11 and above. App hasn't been updated in over one year so perhaps they've abandoned it.

The program is cute with its animations and sounds, but what I really care about is sufficient compressing. A web program I use requires uploaded photos to be no more than 2 MB. Much of the time Squash can only take out a small amout of the size of a photo, and too often not enough for me to be able to use the photo. For example, I had a 5.5 MB photo — Squash only took it down to 4.1 MB. Because of so many failures of Squash to sufficiently compress, I’ve given up using it for the most part and use Photo Size Optimizer. For example, that 5.5 MB photo — Photo Size Optimizer took it down to 1.1, making it usable for my 2 MB maximum — this is the kind of compression Squash needs for it to be fully useful for me.

Took 10MB off a 38MB PNG image. Also took an hour to do it on my 2017 Retina Macbook 12”. I can wait, but I need to have an idea of how long it will take.

I’ve had and used this app for quite some time now and I need to remember to use it more often. If only the rest of the Internet would use such apps like this more often the Internet as a whole would be so much better-off. This app really does exactly what they say it does. For highly-compressed JPEG files I still manage to squash an average of 25K out of them. Sure, 25K may seem like nothing, especially in these days of broadband, but every kilobyte saved adds-up. Imagine those graphic-heavy pages, 10 images would be 250K saved. 25 would be 750K. Seriously. I remember the days when a 25K file would take 20 minutes to download. Just because we have blazing speed with broadband these days is really no excuse for not optimizing your images for the Internet. And it’s not just web pages. An optimized image plopped into your MS Word file makes that Word file smaller. And when that Word file is converted into a PDF file that PDF file is smaller. Get a clue, people, get this (or something equally as useful) and optimize your junk before plugging up my bandwidth! Hahahah THIS APP REALLY WORKS.

This app is simple and easy to use, but it misses a glaringly obvious feature: The ability to define output size.