Shrinkpad

About Shrinkpad

Shrinkpad is a powerful, native macOS application designed for batch compression of images and videos directly on your Mac. It addresses the common pain points of large media files consuming valuable storage space and slowing down workflows. The core value proposition is threefold: exceptional speed through local processing, uncompromising privacy, and significant file size reduction without perceptible loss in quality. Users can drag and drop hundreds of files or entire folders, configure their compression settings, and process everything in seconds. Unlike web-based tools, Shrinkpad performs all operations locally using macOS frameworks, ensuring your sensitive files never leave your device and eliminating any dependency on an internet connection or cloud servers. It is built for a professional audience including photographers, designers, content creators, developers, and anyone who regularly handles high-resolution photos, 4K videos, or large batches of assets and needs to optimize them efficiently for storage, web use, or app development.

Features of Shrinkpad

Lightning-Fast Local Processing

Shrinkpad leverages native macOS frameworks and is optimized for Apple Silicon to deliver multi-threaded compression at remarkable speeds. All processing occurs locally on your machine, meaning there are no uploads to the cloud, no waiting for remote servers, and no bandwidth usage. This architecture ensures complete privacy and allows you to process thousands of files in minutes, even with massive queues that would typically crash web-based tools.

Intelligent Batch Compression for Mixed Media

The app excels at handling large-scale operations with its robust batch processing capability. You can drag and drop an entire folder, and Shrinkpad will automatically detect and queue all supported image and video files inside, ignoring non-media files. It supports processing photos and videos together in the same batch, applying optimal, auto-detected compression settings for each specific file type to achieve the best results without manual intervention for every format.

Comprehensive Format Support

Shrinkpad supports over 50 media formats out of the box, eliminating the need for pre-conversion. For images, it handles JPG, PNG, HEIC, WebP, AVIF, and even RAW files. For videos, major formats like MP4 and MOV are fully supported. This extensive compatibility ensures that regardless of your source material—from iPhone photos to professional camera footage—Shrinkpad is ready to compress them immediately upon drag-and-drop.

Advanced Customization and Control

Beyond automatic settings, Shrinkpad offers deep customization for professionals. Users can choose from quality presets or manually fine-tune compression parameters. You can set preferred output formats, create custom file naming patterns for organized outputs, select specific export locations, and choose to preserve or strip metadata (like EXIF data) with a single click. This level of control tailors the compression process to fit precise workflow and project requirements.

Use Cases of Shrinkpad

Optimizing Web and App Assets

Developers and web designers can use Shrinkpad to drastically reduce the file size of images and videos used in websites and mobile applications. By compressing hero images, product shots, and promotional videos by up to 90%, they can significantly improve page load times, boost Core Web Vitals scores like Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and reduce overall app bundle sizes, leading to a faster, smoother user experience.

Managing Personal and Professional Media Libraries

Photographers, videographers, and content creators often accumulate terabytes of high-resolution media. Shrinkpad allows them to batch compress entire projects or photo libraries, reclaiming massive amounts of disk space (with estimated savings often in gigabytes per batch) while maintaining the visual quality needed for portfolios, client delivery, or archiving, all without ever compromising the privacy of their original files.

Streamlining Design-to-Export Workflows

Designers working in tools like Figma or Photoshop can export their assets at 2x or 4x resolutions for quality and then use Shrinkpad to handle the final optimization in bulk. Instead of manually exporting and compressing dozens of icons, screenshots, or mockups individually, they can drop the entire export folder, apply consistent compression, and use auto-renaming features to prepare production-ready assets in seconds.

Preparing Files for Sharing and Communication

Professionals who need to email large batches of photos, upload videos to a content management system, or share project files with team members and clients can use Shrinkpad to reduce file sizes efficiently. This makes sharing faster, avoids email attachment limits, and reduces upload times, all while keeping the visual integrity of the shared media intact for review and presentation purposes.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I use Shrinkpad for free?

Yes, Shrinkpad offers a Free Starter plan that includes essential compression tools for casual use. This plan supports standard compression for common formats like JPG and PNG, with a limit of 10 files per batch and a maximum individual file size of 1GB. It does not include video compression. For unlimited batch processing, support for all formats (including RAW, HEIC, WebP, and videos), and no file size limits, you can upgrade to a paid plan.

What file formats does Shrinkpad support?

Shrinkpad supports a wide range of over 50 image and video formats natively. This includes popular image formats like JPG, PNG, HEIC, WebP, AVIF, and SVG, as well as professional RAW camera files. For video, it supports major formats including MP4 and MOV. You can drag and drop files in these formats without needing to convert them first.

Does Shrinkpad support video compression?

Yes, Shrinkpad fully supports batch compression of videos. This feature is available in the paid Personal and Team plans. You can compress common video formats like MP4 and MOV, significantly reducing their file size—often by 65% or more—while maintaining good perceptual quality, and you can process videos in the same batch as images.

Are my files uploaded to the cloud?

No. Privacy is a foundational principle of Shrinkpad. All compression processing is performed 100% locally on your Mac using native macOS frameworks. Your files are never uploaded to the cloud, transmitted over the internet, or stored on any external server. This guarantees complete privacy and security for your sensitive or proprietary media assets.

Pricing of Shrinkpad

Shrinkpad offers a simple, one-time payment pricing model with no subscriptions. You own the license forever.

Free Starter: $0. Includes standard compression for common formats (JPG, PNG), a limit of 10 files per batch, and a 1GB maximum file size. Does not include video compression.

Personal: $14 one-time payment. Includes everything in Free, plus 1 device license, unlimited batch processing, support for all formats (RAW, HEIC, WebP, videos), mixed image & video batches, and no file size limit. This is targeted at individual creators and photographers.

Team: $35 one-time payment. Includes everything in the Personal plan, plus licenses for up to 10 devices and priority support. This plan is designed for teams and small studios.