Picmal overview

Picmal converts and compresses images, videos, and audio files on your Mac — no setup, no technical knowledge required. Drop your files and go. For those who want more control, an advanced mode is available with sensible defaults already dialed in. Picmal feels native because it is: fully integrated with macOS, available wherever apps live on your system. Everything runs locally on your machine, keeping your files private by default.

What's new in version 1.6.5

Faster video conversion and compression, especially on powerful Macs with lots of cores. Picmal now runs a few video encodes side by side instead of starving them all, gives each one a proper share of the CPU, and AV1 output is 20–40× quicker. Watched-folder and clipboard jobs run quietly in the background so they don't slow down whatever you're doing.
The Finder right-click Convert and Compress options now run reliably even when Picmal is closed. They process quietly in the background without pulling focus from Finder, with a notification showing what Picmal is working on and the progress as it goes (so a long file doesn't look stuck), honour your "Save to subfolder" setting, and let you know when a selection has nothing Picmal can convert instead of just flashing open and closing. The Services menu items are now grouped together as "Picmal — Add Files", "Picmal — Convert" and "Picmal — Compress".