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Smol
The privacy-first AI Photo, PDF and Video compressor for Mac
Compress unlimited images, PDFs, and videos 100% locally on Apple Silicon. No file size caps, no daily limits, no cloud uploads — $29 one-time. The Mac compression app with no quotas. Most image compression tools are dumb. They were built for the previous era of the internet. They treat every pixel almost equally. At Smol, we built a neural compression pipeline that analyzes an image semantically and decides what actually matters to the human eye.
✨Introducing Smol for Mac.
A tiny app that makes huge files dramatically smaller — right on your Mac.
• 100% offline & on-device
• Compresses images, PDFs, and videos
• Built with a neural compression pipeline
• Designed for faster websites & workflows
• Lives in your menu bar
• No subscriptions
• No accounts
• No uploading private files to random servers
Made for designers, developers, creators, and anyone tired of seeing:
“File too large.”
Photos are STILL the #1 thing absolutely murdering website speed.
We built Smol — a neural network pipeline that compresses images for the web better than anything else on the market. Period.
Proof? Just shipped our own site with it.
Perfect 100/100 Lighthouse across Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO.
Most image compression tools are dumb.
They were built for the previous era of the internet. They treat every pixel almost equally.
At Smol, we built a neural compression pipeline that analyzes an image semantically and decides what actually matters to the human eye.
Things like:
• Faces
• Edges
• Text
• Depth
• Focus areas
• Visual attention
We preserve detail where humans notice it most and compress aggressively where they don’t.
The result:
Dramatically smaller images that still feel sharp, clean, and premium.
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About Smol on Product Hunt
“The privacy-first AI Photo, PDF and Video compressor for Mac”
Smol was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #157 on the daily leaderboard. Compress unlimited images, PDFs, and videos 100% locally on Apple Silicon. No file size caps, no daily limits, no cloud uploads — $29 one-time. The Mac compression app with no quotas. Most image compression tools are dumb. They were built for the previous era of the internet. They treat every pixel almost equally. At Smol, we built a neural compression pipeline that analyzes an image semantically and decides what actually matters to the human eye.
Smol was featured in Design Tools (260.7k followers), Menu Bar Apps (12.2k followers) and Apple (15.5k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 46.6k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Smol?
Smol was hunted by Jano le Roux. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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