Changelog
1.16 (31 October, 2024)(Read announcement)
🌟 New features
- New file layout for easier navigation
- Option to hide app icon in the menu bar
- Option to disable compression history
- Enhanced deeplink integration (visit documentation)
- Video trimming for multiple video selections
- Optimized file preview loading
- Compression via Deeplink, Open With menu, or Raycast now displays on the Notch UI
- Resolved issue where opening deeplink would trigger the history window
- Fixed blurry app icon
- Corrected menu bar icon synchronization with app icon
1.15 (12 October, 2024)(Read announcement)
🌟 New features
- Show/hide app icon in dock
- Open app window via customizable keyboard shortcut
- Option to hide app at launch
- Customizable output file name format for each monitoring folder
- Updated menu bar app icon
- Resolved scaling issue for notch DropZone UI on scaled displays
1.14 (7 September, 2024)(Read announcement)
🌟 What’s new
- Introducing Drop Zone: You can now drag and drop files into the Drop Zone for quick compression
- CompressX is now accessible from the menu bar, so there’s no need to keep the app open constantly
- The Monitoring feature now includes support for video and image rescaling
- Enhanced the onboarding experience
- Grouped related settings in the Monitoring settings tab and the main compression window for easier navigation
- Improved the color of the Compress button in dark mode for better visibility
- Resolved an issue where compressed PNG images failed to save to disk
- Fixed a bug where video resolution adjustments did not work properly
- Fixed an issue where double-tapping the title bar didn’t resize the window
1.13 (11 August, 2024)(Read announcement)
🌟 New
- Add a new app icon
- Mac will no longer sleep when compressing large files
- Paste action optimized for macOS 14
- Refreshed color scheme and overall appearance
- Fix an issue where compressed videos are not previewable and playable in QuickTime Player
1.12 (31 Jul, 2024)(Read announcement)
🌟 New
- Add a new option to copy output files to the clipboard automatically after compression
- Enhance the Help menu with additional options for assistance
- Resolve an issue causing HEIC compression to result in cropped images
- Correct the image dimension option for WebP output
- Fix the display of the GIF quality option for image inputs
1.11 (6 Jul, 2024)(Read announcement)
🌟 New
- Add support for SVG and TIFF image conversion
- Introduce statistical reporting in the compression history window.
- Enhance auto-installation process for Homebrew users
- Resolve performance issues when loading large images
- Correct the calculation error of image dimensions
1.10 (26 Jun, 2024)(Read announcement)
🌟 New
- Introduce the option to downscale images during compression
- Add an option to change the notch UI
- Fix an issue where the "Remove file after compression" option doesn’t work if files were opened through deeplink or the "Open With" menu
- Fix an issue where the app displayed incorrect files when opened via deeplink
- Fix an issue that caused the app to fail when compressing webp images
- Fix an issue where compression failed if the selected output folder didn’t exist
1.9 (31 May, 2024)(Read announcement)
🌟 New
- Added an option to retain image metadata (EXIF, IPTC)
- Added support for pasting files and images into CompressX from the clipboard
- Added the ability to remove input files without selecting new files
- Added support for downscaling video
- Added the ability to convert images to PNG or JPG format when compressing them
- Added support for dropping or pasting new files while compressing to add them to the queue
- Fixed an issue where the app would keep retrying when compressing video
- Fixed an issue where compressed files had poor audio quality. Audio remains lossless during the compression process.
1.8.1 (30 Apr, 2024)
✨ Improvements
- Improve app performance when loading thousand of files
1.8 (26 Apr, 2024)
🌟 New
- Image compression can now be exported in WebP format
- Add an option to set target fps when compressing videos
- Fix an issue where selected app icon not being saved after an update
- Fix an issue where the deeplink fails to trigger CompressX to compress the file
1.7 (14 Apr, 2024)(Read announcement)
🌟 New
- Add H.265/HVEC codec for video encoding when compressing video
- Add an option to opt-out anonymous analytics
- Tap an item in compression history will open it in Finder
- Fix issue where the automatic compression processes a file twice
- Fix an issue where Product Hunt review button keep showing
1.6.1 (9 Apr, 2024)
🌟 Improvements
- Add an effect when hovering the file selection panel
- Fix an issue where the app is stuck when compressing MKV files
1.6 (5 Apr, 2024)(Read announcement)
✨ New
- Support GIF compression
- Add compression history, accessible from the menu or by pressing Command + Y
- Video, image, and gif file types can be selected together
- Display the current file’s name when compressing multiple files
- Add an option to preserve the creation date for the compressed file
1.5.3 (17 Mar, 2024)
🌟 Improvement
- Include an option to delete input files and remove audio for automatic compression with the Monitoring feature
- The input size and name information are not clickable when a single file is selected
- Retain the original file name for the compressed file when the "Move to trash" option is enabled
- Use an incremental number instead of a timestamp for identical filenames
- Resolve the issue where compressed video failing when trimmed
- Resolve the issue where input files being deleted despite compression failure
1.5.2 (13 Mar, 2024)
🛠️ Fixes
- Resolved the issue causing crashes when selecting a video due to improper installation of FFmpeg
1.5.1 (10 Mar, 2024)
🌟 Improvement
- Prevent selecting GIF file as GIF compression is not supported yet
- Fixed wrong email address in the Info section. For any feedback and issue, feel free to send me an email at hieu@compressx.app
- Resolved issue causing crashes when selecting a video on some devices
1.5 (9 Mar, 2024)(Read announcement)
✨ New
- Automatically compress videos and images in a monitored folder. For more information, visit here
- Real-time progress display when converting video to GIF
- Included a link to the Telegram channel in the Info section
- Deeplinking now supports additional parameters: quality, videoFormat, and removeAudio. For more information, visit here
- Converted GIF from video now has correct dimensions
- Audio is synced when trimming the video
- Compression no longer gets stuck with MKV file format
- Resolved issue causing crashes when selecting a video on some devices
1.4 (26 Feb, 2024)(Read announcement)
✨ New
- Video trimming support.
- Compressed file size estimation.
- Prevent a case where compressed file size increases.
1.3 (6 Feb, 2024)(Read announcement)
✨ New
- Add support for customizing the output file name format.
- Hardware acceleration for video compression is now supported (beta).
- Add a small card to notify users about the availability of a new version.
- Clicking on "Submit an issue or feature request" will now open the Mail app instead of directing you to the Github issues page.
1.2.1 (29 Jan, 2024)
🌟 Improvement
- The output file name now only includes a random number at the end if there is already a file with the same name.
- Incorrect output file name is being displayed.
- Some UI tasks are no longer being updated from the background thread.
1.2 (26 Jan, 2024)(Read announcement)
✨ New
- Now you can batch compress multiple videos, images, or folders by selecting or dropping them into the app.
- Display progress in the app and on the dock icon while compressing videos.
- Support integration for third-party apps. Find more information at Integration with CompressX
- Improve the onboarding flow for Intel Mac users
1.1 (13 Jan, 2024)(Read announcement)
✨ New
- Support image compression with four levels of quality
- Support GIF conversion with five quality levels, adjustable FPS, and multiple dimension options
- Added three new app icons
- Improve the onboarding flow by providing clearer instructions
- Update the format for displaying file sizes
1.0.1
- Fix an issue where the compression is stuck with large file on Intel Mac
1.0(Read announcement)
- Custom output folder is now supported
- Add new quality option: Highest
- Transparent video can be compressed without losing the transparency. 2 new quality options are also added specifically for transparent video
- WebM video input is now supported
- Add new keyboard shortcut: now you can press Enter/Return to start compressing
- Show an error message if failed to remove the input file
- Fix an issue where notification doesn’t show when compress successfully
- Fix an issue where notification is shown when cancel the compression
0.11
- Convert output video to MP4 and WebM
- Get notified when compression is finished
0.10
- Support MKV input
- Fix an issue where removed file doesn’t appear in the Trash bin
0.9.2
- Add integration with Raycast (https://www.raycast.com/hieudinh/compressx)
- Add the option to remove the input file after compressing
- Update onboarding flow to include setup instruction video
- Fix an issue with code sign
- Fix an issue with wrong "Input file doesn’t exist" error
0.7
- Right click any video and select Open With -> CompressX to quickly compress the video
- Show elapsed time while compressing the video
0.6
- Add 4 video quality options: High, Good, Medium, Acceptable
- Allow to remove audio from the video
- Automatically trim whitespaces and newlines in the FFmpeg path
- Fix an issue with file name
- Fix an issue where the Compress button color is not showing properly in light mode
- Add a warning message if the compressed file size is larger than input file
0.5
- MVP release