Aerate

The ultimate macOS image compression utility.

Aerate is your

go-to macOS compression tool

Effortlessly compress your images without loss of quality. Aerate offers an industry leading default mode, as well as new fast and extreme presets. Switch between modes quickly using the new compression slider.

Fast

Default

Compresses images at results on-par or surpassing Compress 1 and Squash at a significantly faster speed.

An industry leading mixture of speed vs. compression results. Available to all, completely free.

Extreme

A new mode offering extreme compression of PNG images. Lose up to 90% of an image losslessly.

Original Image

9.2mb uncompressed

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Squash

8mb compressed (-1.2mb)

Default mode | 27.8 seconds

Aerate

7.1mb compressed (-2.1mb)

Fast mode | 18.6 seconds

6.9mb compressed (-2.3mb)

Default mode | 54 seconds

ImageOptim

Industry Leading Features

Batch-file compression

Aerate allows you to compress folder or stacks of images simultaneously.

macOS Catalina

Aerate has been built from the ground-up to work with Catalina, as well as macOS 10.10+.

PNG & JPG support

Aerate includes industry leading support for PNG compression as well as loss-setting JPG support.

PSD to JPG conversion

With Aerate, you can easily covert PSDs to JPGs. They can even be included in a batch.

Extensions

With Aerate, you can automatically assign a custom extension for compressed files.

JPG metadata

Aerate can automatically remove JPG metadata, including in bulk processes.

Results view

The new results view allows you to easily reviews and save images individually.

PNG to JPG conversion

You can easily convert your PNG images to JPG post conversion, allowing maximum results.

Dark mode

Aerate includes a beautiful new dark mode that can be custom toggled in preferences.

Introducing

Multi-core mode

Aerate includes a first of its kind multi-core mode, that allows you to take full advantage of your CPU and compress images simultaneously. Exclusively available in Aerate Pro.