Shrinkpad

About Shrinkpad

Shrinkpad is the definitive, native macOS solution for professionals who demand uncompromising quality, speed, and privacy in their media optimization workflow. It is a powerful desktop application engineered to batch compress images and videos directly on your Mac, eliminating the inefficiencies and security concerns of cloud-based tools. By leveraging native Apple frameworks, Shrinkpad processes hundreds, even thousands, of files locally in seconds, ensuring your sensitive assets never leave the sanctity of your device. It delivers radical storage savings—up to 90%—while intelligently preserving visual fidelity through automatic analysis of each asset's complexity. Designed for elite photographers, designers, developers, and content creators, Shrinkpad transforms bloated media libraries and project folders into optimized, web-ready assets without the tedious manual labor. It is the essential tool for reclaiming disk space, accelerating workflows, and maintaining absolute control over your digital content.

Features of Shrinkpad

Uncompromising Local Processing

Every compression task is executed entirely on your Mac using native macOS frameworks. This architecture guarantees complete data sovereignty; your files are never uploaded to external servers. This ensures total privacy for sensitive client work or personal projects and provides zero dependency on an internet connection, enabling flawless operation anywhere.

Intelligent Batch Compression Engine

Shrinkpad's core is a lightning-fast, multi-threaded engine optimized for Apple Silicon. It allows you to drag and drop entire folders containing hundreds of mixed-format files. The app automatically detects over 50 media formats—from JPG and PNG to RAW, HEIC, WebP, AVIF, MP4, and MOV—processing them all in a single, seamless batch operation, saving hours of manual, file-by-file export work.

Precision Quality Control

Move beyond guesswork with sophisticated, granular control over your output. Choose from intuitive presets or manually fine-tune compression settings for each media type. Customize output formats, define exact file-naming patterns, select export destinations, and choose to preserve or strip metadata with a single click, tailoring the process perfectly to your pipeline requirements.

Advanced Folder Mode & Asset Management

The Folder Mode feature exemplifies workflow efficiency. Simply drop any project folder, and Shrinkpad instantly scans and identifies all supported images and videos within, including those in subfolders, while safely ignoring non-media files. It provides a clear preview of estimated storage savings, allowing you to compress an entire project's assets in one decisive action.

Use Cases of Shrinkpad

Optimizing Digital Product Bundles

Developers and designers can drastically reduce application bundle sizes and website load times by batch-processing all interface assets, icons, and promotional screenshots. Shrinkpad's quality-aware compression ensures visuals remain crisp while file sizes plummet, directly improving key performance metrics like Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) for faster user experiences.

Preparing Client Deliverables

Photographers and videographers can efficiently prepare large galleries or video reels for client delivery. By compressing high-resolution RAW photos and 4K video footage locally, they maintain full quality control and privacy, quickly creating manageable files ideal for online portfolios, proofing galleries, or email delivery without compromising professional standards.

Managing Creative Project Archives

Creative teams and small studios can reclaim terabytes of storage from completed project archives. Shrinkpad allows them to process entire project folders—containing mixed PSD exports, video clips, and final renders—into a uniformly optimized archive, preserving usability while freeing up crucial space on local drives and network-attached storage systems.

Streamlining Content Publishing

Bloggers, marketers, and social media managers can accelerate their publishing workflow. Instead of manually resizing and compressing dozens of images and videos for web and social platforms, they drop a week's worth of content into Shrinkpad. It automatically optimizes everything to the perfect balance of quality and size, ensuring fast page loads and efficient uploads.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Shrinkpad upload my files to the cloud?

Absolutely not. Shrinkpad is built on a foundational principle of privacy-first, local processing. Every single compression operation is performed 100% on your Mac using its own CPU and GPU. Your files never leave your device, ensuring complete security and confidentiality, which is critical for handling sensitive or proprietary creative assets.

What file formats does Shrinkpad support?

Shrinkpad offers extensive native support for over 50 professional media formats. This includes all major image types like JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, HEIC, and even camera RAW files. For video, it seamlessly handles MP4, MOV, and other common formats. There is no need for pre-conversion; drag, drop, and Shrinkpad intelligently processes the batch.

How many files can I process in one batch?

The application is engineered for heavy-duty, professional workloads. The free Starter plan allows batches of up to 10 files. Upgrading to the Personal or Team plan removes all limits, enabling you to queue and process thousands of files and folders in a single operation without performance degradation or crashes, a feat impossible for typical web-based tools.

Can I control the compression quality and output settings?

Yes, Shrinkpad provides both intelligent automation and precise manual control. You can rely on its auto-setting that analyzes visual complexity for optimal results. For full command, you can manually adjust compression ratios, choose specific output formats, create custom file-naming conventions, set export locations, and control metadata inclusion for each batch you process.

Pricing of Shrinkpad

Shrinkpad operates on a simple, transparent, one-time payment model with no subscriptions. The Free Starter plan offers essential compression for common formats with a 10-file batch limit. The Personal license, at a one-time cost of $14, unlocks unlimited batch processing, all file formats (including RAW and HEIC), mixed media batches, and no file size limits for a single device. For teams, the Team license at $35 provides everything in the Personal tier for up to 10 devices with the addition of priority support. This pricing structure allows professionals to own their tools outright and optimize their workflow without recurring fees.