Image Optimizer Plus for Windows

On my Mac I’ve been using ImageOptim for years. Drop some images onto it, wait a second, and they’re smaller. No settings to fiddle with and no worrying about whether the images still look the same. On Windows I never found anything quite as simple, so I made one: Image Optimizer Plus. Drop AVIF, GIF, JPEG, JPEG XL, PNG, SVG and WebP files (or whole folders) onto the window and each file is optimized and replaced in place. You can also right-click images or folders in File Explorer and choose Optimize with Image Optimizer. Lossless and safe The most important thing for me was that it should never make an image worse. Each image is optimized on a copy in a temporary folder, and a result is only kept if it’s strictly smaller and pixel-identical to the original (for GIFs every frame is checked, along with its timing and loop count). If the file changed on disk in the meantime, or anything goes wrong, the original is left exactly as it was. Metadata such as EXIF, comments and camera info…