# Pixtamer for Mac

Canonical page: https://macbase.app/apps/pixtamer

> Convert, compress, resize and rename images for the web

- Price: Free
- Requires: macOS 14 Sonoma or later
- Languages: English
- Apple silicon: runs natively
- Notarized by Apple: yes
- Open source: yes (https://github.com/heysidhant/pixtamer)
- Verified on MacBase: yes
- Developer: Sidhant Sinha
- Categories: [Photography](https://macbase.app/categories/photography), [Cleanup & Storage](https://macbase.app/categories/cleanup-storage), [Design & Graphics](https://macbase.app/categories/design-graphics)

## About

Pixtamer turns a folder of photos, screenshots or design exports into web-ready images in one batch: the right format, the right size and a clean file name, with real before-and-after sizes for every file.

Drop in images or whole folders, pick a format and size, and export. Everything runs on your Mac. There's no account, no upload and no network access, and your originals are never changed.

What it does:
• Convert to JPEG, PNG, WebP or AVIF. Reads JPEG, PNG, HEIC/HEIF, WebP, AVIF, TIFF, GIF, BMP and JPEG XL.
• Compress with a quality slider, or lossless WebP. Strip metadata or keep it.
• Resize to fit a box, to an exact size, or to several widths at once. One source becomes 480w, 960w and 1440w files for srcset, and small images are never upscaled.
• Rename with web-safe names ("Homepage Hero (FINAL).heic" becomes "homepage-hero-final.webp"), a suffix, or a template like {name}-{width}w.
• Organise output into subfolders by format or by width.
• Presets: save a recipe once and apply it to the next batch.
• Preview each image before and after, with the actual output dimensions, size and file name.
• Safe exports: originals are never touched, and existing files aren't overwritten unless you choose to. One bad file doesn't stop the batch.
• Recent Exports keeps a history of what went where.

Made for web developers, designers, bloggers and anyone who keeps resizing images for a website, CMS or app.

Native SwiftUI app, universal (Apple silicon and Intel), signed and notarized by Apple. Free and open source under the MIT licence, with the source on GitHub.

## An alternative to

- [Permute](https://macbase.app/alternatives/permute): 3 alternatives on MacBase

## Get it

- Download: https://github.com/heysidhant/pixtamer/releases/latest
- Website: https://github.com/heysidhant/pixtamer
- Source: https://github.com/heysidhant/pixtamer

Listed by [Sidhant Sinha](https://macbase.app/@hisidhant).

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