Zipic 1.10.0

Zipic 1.10.0

Zipic — image compression software for fast, private macOS optimization

Zipic

Zipic is a native macOS application designed for efficient, high-quality image compression. It lets users shrink image files locally, with no uploads or dependency on the cloud. All processing happens on your own device—so your privacy and speed stay intact.

Key Features and Highlights:

  • High Compression, Near-Lossless Quality: Zipic utilizes powerful compression algorithms to achieve a high compression ratio with minimal perceived quality loss, making the compressed image virtually indistinguishable from the original.
  • Fast & Local Processing: Being a native macOS application, all image processing occurs locally on your device. This ensures lightning-fast performance, efficient handling of massive batches, and high data privacy with no cloud uploads or network dependence.
    Comprehensive Format Support: The tool supports a wide range of formats, including basic ones like JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, and GIF, and Pro formats like AVIF, JXL, TIFF, and ICNS.
  • Effortless Workflow: It offers multiple simple compression methods, including drag-and-drop, folder monitoring, and Finder integration (right-click).
  • Custom Control: Users can create custom presets for different quality levels and scenarios, allowing for precise control over the compression outcome.
  • Pro Features for Automation: Advanced features include Clipboard auto-compress, Folder Watch for automated compression in specific directories, and integration options like Raycast Extension and Apple Shortcuts.

Zipic aims to be the seamless solution for developers, designers, bloggers, and photographers who need to optimize and compress images efficiently.

Zipic v1.10.0

New Features

  • Multiple outputs: one compression can now produce extra versions at once — each with its own format, size, and filename suffix, grouped in the results list — fully supported in the CLI, Shortcuts, and URL Scheme.
  • HDR preservation: HDR photos keep their HDR brightness (Ultra HDR / gain map) when converted to JPEG, AVIF, HEIC, or JXL — even when resizing.
  • iCloud sync: settings and presets now sync automatically across your Macs.
  • Redesigned settings: a brand-new settings window with an icon sidebar and frosted-glass look; preset cards, the license page, and every settings page have been refreshed.
  • Config export & import: the new Data settings page lets you export and import settings and presets, with category-based selective import.
    Clipboard format whitelist: choose which image formats clipboard monitoring reacts to; defaults to PNG, JPEG, and WebP.
    Scale by percentage: resize now offers a percentage mode to shrink images proportionally.
  • CLI upgrades: the command-line tool reaches 0.3.0 with new config and monitor command groups and more complete compression overrides.
  • DPI preservation: image DPI metadata is preserved after compression.
  • Folder access guidance: when a monitored folder loses permission, Zipic now detects it quickly and guides you to re-authorize.

Bug Fixes

  • PDF compression: fixed blank pages in compressed scans and pages losing all text in certain PDFs.
    Honest HDR output: converting HDR images to SDR formats like JPEG/PNG now tone-maps brightness correctly instead of producing washed-out or fake-HDR results.
  • Clipboard experience: compressed images are written back in the clipboard’s original shape, and unchanged clipboard content is no longer reprocessed.
  • Resize accuracy: fixed inconsistent output dimensions and ±1 pixel drift when resizing certain formats.
    Stability: fixed a crash when notifications popped up in rapid succession, a black flash in the Notch animation, and monitored cloud-synced files being compressed before fully downloaded.
  • ICNS compression: compression level now actually applies to ICNS icons.

Other Improvements

  • Behavior change — clipboard monitoring: clipboard monitoring now only handles PNG, JPEG, and WebP by default; enable other formats in Settings if needed.
  • Behavior change — Shortcuts: with multiple outputs configured, the Shortcuts compression action returns all output files.
    Engine upgrades: built-in JPEG, PNG, AVIF, and PDF encoders have been upgraded for better quality and compatibility.
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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the app?

Mount the image, drag the app into the "Applications" folder and launch it. If the system blocks the launch, allow it in "System Settings → Privacy & Security".

The app is damaged or won't launch

Reinstalling from a fresh image usually helps. Make sure your macOS version matches the one listed in the compatibility specs.

How do I update?

Download the new version from the site and install it over the current one — your settings will be preserved.

The download link doesn't work

Try a mirror or a download manager. For large files the browser often drops the connection.

How do I completely remove the app?

Use an uninstaller utility — it cleans up the service files that remain after moving the app to the trash.

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Zipic 1.10.0