JPEGmini App Reviews

Do not purchase if you plan to get a new camera. I now own a Nikon D810 and I cannot use this app anymore with my photos. They should at least offer you a discount on their other app that cost you over $100 bucks. Really!!

This is like a real-world Pied Piper. Awesome compression with minimal quality loss.

I’ve been using JPEGmini for several years now. It does exactly what it says, is easy to use, and has an attractive and playful interface. Compressing JPEGs with it is slightly addictive. I use it to compress images that I’ve dropped into my DropBox to best make use of the space. Don’t hesitate, get it now!

Can’t rave enough about this app. It significantly reduces the file size while keeping the picture indistiguishable from original edited version. I’ve even done test prints with the original and the jpegmini versions and they look spectacular. My gallery site is Pixieset and they have a storage quota and this helps me keep more galleries up with a much much smaller footprint of space taken. Completely worth the money. Thank you JPEGmini team for this awesome product! (Would love an iOS version too!)

I wished pro version was not as expensive, so I could support such a wonderful application. Hopefully some day price will be reduced ;)

If you do that, JPEGmini will optimize photos in the library anyway, but Photos will not know the fact that photos were optimized by an external application. As a result you will face a huge duplication problem after a Time machine recovery or an OS X migration transfer, when Photos fails to match local photos (optimized) with remote photos (not optimized) on Apple’s server. Since Photos will recognize them as different sets of photos, you will have a doubled library with local photos being uploaded and remote photos being downloaded. To sort out the mess, you will have to manually select each duplicated photo in Photos app, which will be nearly impossible when you have tens of thosands photos. To avoid this unwanted situation with Photos optimized, you have either (1) not to use iCloud photo library at all; or (2) to import photos elsewhere before optimizing them and then to add to Photos library. And both respectively have issues. For the latter, you should turn off iCloud photo library on the iPhone and use a third-party utility to import photos from it. As El Capitan added extension APIs for Photos app, I wish JPEGmini would address this issue somehow in near future.

I’m very happy with JPEGmini and think it’s a great application. The only thing I would ask for is some Apple Script support, or the ability to script it by some means. I think adding scripting support would accerate adoption and open up a whole new user base.

I use JPEGmini for reducing my iPhoto footprint, reclaimed 300GB of SSD!

This is one of the best apps I use.

I use this tool often and certainly every time I’ll be sending photos via email, dropbox, etc. It is great at reducing the sizes but even better at doing it intelligently. Unless I compare side by side at the pixel level I can’t even tell the difference… it’s that good! Thanks for this awesome program!

yup, that’s about it

I use this app along with another one called ImageOptim—which shaves off another few KB. Together, they keep my jpgs as trim and good looking as possible. On occassion, I like to run them through the two apps a couple of times for 2x jpgs and huge images (you know, because you won’t really notice the artifacting at 1080p 400dpi).