Ferrocast Install

Compress on your Mac, offline

Compress images by size, percentage or preset, and audio, video and PDF files, with Ferrocast. Output is a new copy next to the original.

Shortcut
None; open it from the Tools wheel or the Convert view
Input formats
jpg png webp heic tiff mp3 m4a wav flac mp4 mov mkv pdf
Compress window in Ferrocast

How to use it

  1. Drag a file, or select it in the launcher.
  2. Open the Tools wheel: tap ⌘ while dragging.
  3. Choose Compress. The result is saved beside the original.

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Install Ferrocast

brew tap drumst0ck/ferrocast
brew install drumst0ck/ferrocast/ferrocast
ln -sfn "$(brew --prefix)/opt/ferrocast/Ferrocast.app" \
  /Applications/Ferrocast.app
open /Applications/Ferrocast.app

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