I made a local image compressor to save you from popups andsubscription
Details
- External ID
- 48929408
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I made a local image compressor to save you from popups andsubscription
- Website domain
- conutil.com
- Launched
- July 16, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1081242532855436
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hey HN.Online image compressors are good, actually not! popups, subscription, clunky ui & more...So I created ConUtil Compressor it's 100% free and opensource. The only local image compressor that doesn't suck or get you into subscription hell.Enjoy! Ahmed
Enrichment
- Theme
- image editing and background removal tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- local image compressor
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a standard client-side web application utilizing browser Canvas APIs and open-source WebAssembly image codecs to compress files locally.
Discussion
6 comments analyzed.
Feature requests: AVIF format support, Visual feedback popup for successful image additions
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 163 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #159 of 164 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 236 days after the earliest competitor.
- Ravi Free Image Compressor & Resizer · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- CompressHome · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- File Compressor · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- InImageCompressor · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- OnlyFiles · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Reduce Image Size Instantly · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- MediaMorph · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Shrink: Photo Compressor · ph · 2026-09-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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