Curtail

Compress your images

Curtail (previously ImCompressor) is an useful image compressor, supporting PNG, JPEG, WebP and SVG file types. It support both lossless and lossy compression modes with an option to whether keep or not metadata of images. It is inspired by Trimage and Image-Optimizer.

Supported formats

PNG, JPEG, WebP, SVG

Screenshot

Installation instructions

Universal package for Linux (recommended)

Curtail is available as a Flatpak package.

You can also install it by using the following command-line:

flatpak install flathub com.github.huluti.Curtail

Distro packages

Unofficial packages

A Snap package is available:

A PPA is available for Ubuntu (18.04+) and derivatives:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:apandada1/curtail
sudo apt update
sudo apt install curtail

A copr package is available for Fedora (36+):

sudo dnf copr enable 0xmrtt/curtail
sudo dnf install curtail

Build from source (nightly)

Build and install by running:

git clone https://github.com/Huluti/Curtail.git
cd Curtail
meson _build
cd _build
ninja
sudo ninja install

The app can then be removed with:

sudo ninja uninstall

Tech

Curtail uses a number of open source projects to work properly:

• GTK 4
• Libadwaita
• Python 3
• Oxipng
• pngquant
• Jpegoptim
• libwebp
• Scour

Translations

Translation of this project takes place on the GNOME translation platform, Damned Lies. For further information on how to join a language team, or even to create one, please see GNOME Translation Project wiki page.

Donations

Do you like the app? Would you like to support its development? Feel free to donate.

License

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (v3)

Free Software, Yeah!