DropSlim
Local image compressor app for Win/Mac, CLI for Mac/Linux
Details
- External ID
- 1254827
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- DropSlim
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 21, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Design Tools, Open Source, Developer Tools, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
Stop uploading private assets to shady online converters. DropSlim is a local, privacy-first image optimizer. Everything runs 100% offline with zero server uploads or tracking.It offers a clean desktop GUI for Windows and macOS, plus a scriptable CLI for macOS and Linux (soon). DropSlim supports batch and recursive folder processing for PNG, JPEG, SVG, GIF, WebP, AVIF, and native HEIC on Mac. 100% free and open-source under the MIT license with no accounts needed.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS utilities and system tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- local image compression tool for creators and developers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is an Electron, Tauri, or Wails desktop wrapper around standard local image compression libraries like sharp, libvips, or squoosh CLI.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 188 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #89 of 189 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 296 days after the earliest competitor.
- FileSlim · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- LIMITLESS Image Resizer & Metadata Wiper · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- I made a local image compressor to save you from popups andsubscription · hn · 2026-07-16 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- File Compressor · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- DropEdge · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- CMDrop · ph · 2026-09-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Ravi Free Image Compressor & Resizer · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- InImageCompressor · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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