littleJPG For Mac

littleJPG is a straightforward and efficient OS X utility that, thanks to an advanced lossy based re-encoding compression algorithm, makes it possible for you to quickly and drastically reduce the sizes of your JPG files.

The first thing you need to know about littleJPG is the fact that this small app makes it possible for you to reduce the sizes of your JPG files up to 98% percent with a very small quality loss. This fact alone makes it the ideal tool for users who often have to load images onto websites, as one of the most important parameters for the loading time are the sizes of the loaded pictures.

Regardless of your experience with similar apps of this sort, you will discover that working with littleJPG is in many respects one of the easiest things you can do in OS X.

This said, littleJPG reduces the whole compression process to a simple drag and drop of the files from the Finder onto its interface, and a single click on the “Optimize>>” button on the lower right side of its main window.

Despite its simple nature and straightforward workflow, littleJPG is far from being an all show and no go type of app, as you will surely find out once you click the “Advanced” button, before compressing your JPG files.

Put simply, littleJPG enables you to choose the quality for the output JPGs, switch between DC scanning and Trellis optimization modes, convert your images to greyscale, use arithmetic coding, and to smoothen out the dither input, just to name a few of the available options.

Do not let yourself fooled by this app’s small dimensions, as littleJPG seems to be a minimalist app only if you look at its "surface".

Yes, it may bundle a user-friendly interface and, yes, it may not look much when you look at it, but, thanks to its advanced compression and optimization options, littleJPG is clearly a very efficient tool for any OS X user who wants to improve the loading times for his website by reducing the size of all bundled JPG images.