JPEGmini App Reviews

The title says everything!!! THe only things that I missing are: - a plugin for Aperture 3.X - a control (option) to export with Adobe 1998 RGB - the possibility to start the process just only dragging the images/folders selected on the icon on the desk or via right-click menù.

In my personal computer this app works flawlessly Also, I wanted to request a feature: - Please add Live Photos support. Right now it will remove the “Live” feature of any foto is grabs. So if you do it on a Live Photo you will lose the “video” of that. Maybe add an option that will skip any Live Photos? Some sort of support would be awesome!

This app continues to impress with it’s ease of use and great results.

Saves valuable storage space with just one drag and drop. Amazing that they can do that and maintain image quality like they do.

This program is awesome! It works on everything and even on Aperture Libriaries. I take all my photos in RAW which produces huge files. When I import those into Aperture, Aperture creates about 3-4 JPEGs per RAW file for faster editing and viewing. The thing is, I dont really care if the JPEG files are compressed or lower fidelity as all I really care about is the Origional RAW file. Because of this JPEG Mini has been amazing and has so far saved me over 120GB of space from all my photos and other JPEG files! Thanks so much! Keep up the great work!

Love this app, use it all the time my only gripe is that it needs to include some RAW conversion . Keep it up

First the good: My iPhoto library went on a SERIOUS diet: 90,001,035,892 bytes now 33,885,608,207. right-click on your iPhoto library and show package contents then drag Master, Previews and Thumbnails (and iPod Cache if exists) onto JPEGmini. Heres how that is real-world important to ME and may be to you: before JPEG mini-mizing, My iPhoto library was 30GB too large to fit on my SSD internal drive so I had to have it on my external drive. The external drive is a FAST one, but not SSD fast, and my battery life drops TWO HOURS with it attached! Well post-JPEGmini; my iPhoto library shrunk enough not just to fit, but i have 22GB free space! incredible! I have a couple major gripes, each gets a minus one star. ➀ NOT 64-bit? exqueeeze me? a program thats ONLY job is compression of PHOTOS, a task that could NOT be more-suited to hyper-threading and more cores is not 64-bit.. solid one star reduction, inexcusable. (of course iPHoto also not 32-bit; shame on you apple). ➁ no user settable compression quality. The compression is VERY high quality! Ive re-compressed my wedding photos, my only sons birth photos; every single photo in my iPhoto library, but Im not happy that i lost some quality. Ive saved 56GB so far, but wrote the company that Id have been happier if it was 40 (and i maintained higher quality on the photos). Heres the story on the compression: you can and will see a difference on NON-retina screens and at 1:1 pixel scale (100% in preview/photoshop) but ONLY on an a-b comparison and it is subtle; the little jiggly bits in the smooth shades will jiggle differently. If you look at a plasma TV up close, you will see the same kind of very weird scattered dots that seem to have nothing to do with the picture, but look perfectly fine from a distance. Its the same thing here. I have not been able to detect any artifacts worth noting on a retina display, though I could see the difference any time on A-B comparison on my non-retina mac-book-pro. I would be very very surprised if somebody could come up with a real-world example where the difference was even VISIBLE much less a problem. by example, I mean printed piece at 5x7" or a BILLBOARD at 20x60feet; by the time the image is actually reproduced, the methods that get those dots onto paper or on the TV screen etc at a normal viewing distance, you will never ever EVER E.V.E.R. see the difference. For that reason, there is no rational reason for not re-compressing of your photos with the likes of JPEG mini (well since there is ONLY "the" JPEGmini (patent pending), as far as i know, there are no peers; get yourself JPEG mini. Hopefully they will fix the two bugs mentioned and I would happily rate it 5 stars! as far as the disapointed review, its a huge misunderstaning of the whole concept of JPEGmini. JPEGmini is not MAGIC! it will not make ALL JPEGs smaller! It takes advantage of a lack of power of the CPU in cameras loophole. Cameras do not have powerful CPUs, so in order to keep up with the shooting rate, they can only compress the images a little bit by JPG standards. They undercompress to the point that ➀ they can keep up and ➁ that there are virtually ZERO artifacts from compression. the ➀ they cant do anything about and ➁ they just dont care. For the first few thousand pictures, its no big deal that each image is 4-5mb, but when properly compressed they are 2mb, that adds up to 100s of GB eventually, just wasted space, time and effort. You can open up each JPG file and re-save in photoshop/graphic converter etc with a compression level of maybe 6-7 and get simlar SIZE file as JPEGmini, but you wont have as good of quality (as the same size on disk) as JPEGmini. If you have ALREADY re-compressed with a different program, JPEGmini of COURSE will NOT make them smaller, you already used a different program to re-compress them. What JPEGmini is designed to do and does exceptionally well, is to take badly compressed (e.g. not compressed much) images from a digital camera and compress them WELL (e.g. much higher compression while maintaining best possible quality at that size). OH; i want to mention a couple more things: ➀ the developer has always written me back each time ive ever written. Even before i bought my own copy of the program. I did get the answer NO on my main point of adding a setting for quality so, my review includes the minus one star for that, but Ive been happy to see very quick and personal replies to each time ive sent an email thats a big bonus. ➁ There is a neat feature if you just want to save a TON of space on your backup or archive they added; you can have the compressed files go to a folder, presumably on your external (archive) drive. You can keep your originals in maximum quality but have your backup or archive be compressed. That way you just turned a 2GB drive into a 5GB drive for your backup. If you lose your original you can retrieve the MINId file and nobody will EVER notice it was compressed but it just saved your bacon by the fact you had it. That method as far as i know has one bug; it doesnt keep track of the folders already compressed, so youd better mark them with the label function as archived (make a custom label). -awr

This is a very useful small program and what it does it does well. BUT as for the caution and suggestion. Dont rely on this if high quality storage really matters. JPEG is itself a lossy compression algorithm which by inference makes this also a lossy compression. Up to a point, thats okay in that JPEG allows the storage of a lot of picture data in a relatively small space. This app can take that further in file reduction without significantly increasing image loss. It may or may not be noticeable depending on how you are using the image. QUALITY JPEGmini is not at all exaggerating what its app does. This is an optimized JPEG and it is aimed at PERCEPTUAL quality and that should be equal or very close to it. One reviewer said he could see very small differences on a Retina screen, which is about all I use. What I do and recommend to anyone who has photographs of importance to themselves or their family is to store first generation ca mera images in a safe, redundant way, whether it be mirrored disks, RAIDS, or whatever. Storage is cheap -- at least when its not SSID in a new Mac. I would keep the original file and not edit that copy more than necessary. There is in JPG an inevitable degradation with each generation, the degree depending on the quality setting, the size and quality are related (talking JPG here). Use a straight copy to edit from; generally you want to be working as close to the first generation as you can. You may want to make a master edited copy (and keep it instead, but treat it as an original). This wont matter as much if you primarily want pictures for posting or mailing and dont ever intend to make prints, in particular large prints. This may seem to be trivial, because most photos for most people arent critical. As a retired professional most of what I shoot starts as RAW files and high quality derivitive files, including jpgs. I still license images for publications and JPGs work well for sending to publishers, etc. Large prints require high quality -- and this may or may not work with a high quality jpg. Cant say. But Ive already seen that this is a neat program for uploading to DROPBOX or sending through email where it has some real advantages. Reality is that the printed image is not as important as it once was (just dont forget it entirely) and this is one of those near programs that makes the electrons move faster.

I recommend JPEGmini it does exactly as advertised….. PLEASE! add the ability to drag & drop photos on to the app icon

Its a fantastic tool for everyone who stores any digital photos on their computer. Its truly unbelivable, Ive saved over 200GB in space of my 120,000 photo library. Amazing!!!

This is without a doubt the BEST App I have bought for my photos EVER! Highly recommend this to everyone. Works exactly as they say! LOVE this APP !!

Amazing technology. I continue to be impressed from the performance. JPEGmini is always identical to original. Print 8x11, zoom, rotate, etc. It always looks the same and much smaller. Now Im ising JPEGmini to optimize my Dropbox folder - very useful !

I have saved over 13GB with this app. Wonderful to compress bloated photo libraries

I do a lot of online posting of high quality images. This software has proven invaluable.

I trailed several apps to reduce photo size and this was by far the easiest software to use. The resulting jpegs were virtually indistinguishable in quality from the originals. 40GB of photos were reduced to 18GB.

This app works as advertised. I reduced my Dropbox picture folder to 3.45gb (originally 6.47gb). Before I bought the full version, I used the light version jus to make sure that I wouid not loose quality. I put the original and the reduced file side by side and viewed them at "Actual Size" as well as at 200% and I could not tell the difference. Since space is an issue these days, the $19.99 I spent for this app was well worth it. Works great, fast and best of all, no corruption. Great product. p.s. I accidentally posted this review in jpegmini-lite page. The light version works great too but you are limited to only 20 jpg files a day.

This App is my new BFF! As a Webmaster I have tried a ton of other image reduction / optimization software and none of them compare to JpegMini. Just the right amount of optimization to get the "fat" out of the image but with zero loss of quality. Eliminates all of the guess work and tweeking with the other products Ive used. A huge time saver and a bargain at twice the price! Thanks

Saved me tons of bandwitdh!

This app is worth every penny. It shrunk my digital library from 30GB to 9GB, making it more easy for me to back up online. I have made prints from pictures before and after passing it through the app and there is no difference. None. Even took both prints to a photographer I know and he couldnt tell which was the original. Then tried zooming in to see the pixels and both images matched perfectly. I have no idea how they do it, but it works as advertised. Pictures are shrunk without losing quality.

This is an invaluable app for compressing imagaes not only for use as web images but also storing those images in a cloud storage solution. The compression algorithm is great, maintaining image quality and saving significant amounts of hard disk space.