Smol
The privacy-first AI Photo, PDF and Video compressor for Mac
Smol launched on May 22, 2026 with 2 votes, #6,288 of 20,538 launches that month.
What it does
Compress unlimited images, PDFs, and videos 100% locally on Apple Silicon. No file size caps, no daily limits, no cloud uploads — $29 one-time. The Mac compression app with no quotas. Most image compression tools are dumb. They were built for the previous era of the internet. They treat every pixel almost equally. At Smol, we built a neural compression pipeline that analyzes an image semantically and decides what actually matters to the human eye.
Compress images on your Mac with Neural ML-guided compression. JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, HEIC and RAW — 60–85% smaller, 100% local, no uploads. Now with MCP so Claude Code and Codex can use Smol directly. $29 once.
Smol studies every image before it compresses it — protecting faces, text, and edges while the rest of the file disappears. Nothing is uploaded, ever. You know the routine. The deck that's too big to send. The screenshot that bloats a doc. The sketchy “free compressor” tab asking you to upload a client's contract. Smol ends it. Drop the file, it gets small, and it never leaves your Mac. Normal compressors treat an image like a flat grid. Smol compresses around human attention — warm areas are kept , cool areas are squeezed . Before a single byte is compressed, the Neural pipeline looks for faces, eyes, text, object edges, texture, and depth — the things a human actually looks at. Warm…from smolmac.com
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