Squint Image Optimizer
Shrink photos, remove location
Only for Mac
Free
Mac
Squint makes images smaller and removes the location, camera and date details stored in a photo. It keeps the color profile and the HDR that other tools discard, so an iPhone photo looks the same afterwards.
Drop files on the window, or select them in Finder and choose one of three entries from the Services menu:
Shrink re-encodes a JPEG once at a fixed quality and recompresses a PNG losslessly, then replaces the file. A 12-megapixel iPhone photo goes from 1.5 MB to about 0.7 MB with its HDR kept. A PDF has the pictures inside it re-encoded.
Shrink to a Quality Target measures each picture with SSIMULACRA2, a perceptual metric, and finds the smallest file that still meets the score you set. A flat screenshot and a grainy photograph each get the setting they need instead of one number for both.
Remove Location Data takes out the GPS position, the camera details and the timestamps without re-encoding, so the pixels stay exactly as they were. It works on JPEG, PNG, HEIC, AVIF, WebP, TIFF, GIF and PDF files.
Squint keeps the color profile (a Display P3 photo stays Display P3), the HDR gain map of an iPhone photo, Finder tags and the file's creation date. It works offline: there is no upload, account or analytics code in it.
This edition replaces files in place. Copies sized for email and social posts, conversion to AVIF and PNG color reduction are in the full edition, which is free and open source at github.com/mdws-org/squint.
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Remove Location Data now removes data that earlier versions left in GIF, HEIC, AVIF, TIFF and PDF files, including a PDF's JavaScript, and keeps a WebP's and a PNG's orientation. If you stripped GIF, HEIC, AVIF or PDF files with an earlier version, strip them again. Shrink to a Quality Target no longer runs a Mac out of memory on a very large picture: it encodes it once at the fixed quality and says so.
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Information
- Seller
- Benjamin Meadows
- Size
- 4.3 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Benjamin Meadows