Zipic Is Good. I'm Still Not Switching From Clop.

Is it possible to shrink image file sizes on a Mac using native tools? Yes, but with some big IFs thrown in. Preview can knock a file's size down if you dig into the export dialog and guess at a quality slider, and Photos will do the same on export, but neither remembers what you did last time or watches a folder for you. That's way too much friction when alternatives exist. No one wants to live like an animal. Image compression is a solved problem and it has been for a while. What separates a good tool from a mediocre one isn't the compression algorithm, it's whether the tool disappears into your workflow or makes you think about it. Zipic is a native Mac app built around that idea: drag, drop, done, with the automation layered on top of an engine, mozjpeg, pngquant, and friends: that's the same open-source stack most of this category runs on. I compared Zipic to my current image compression stack, and while I found it useful, except for one narrow scenario, it doesn't beat what I…