Comments about ECT - Efficient Compression Tool as an Alternative to JPEGmini

- ECT - Efficient Compression Tool is Free and Open Source
- ECT - Efficient Compression Tool is Lightweight and Privacy focused
JPEGmini is described as 'Patent-pending photo recompression technology, which significantly reduces the size of photographs without affecting their perceptual quality. The technology works in the domain of baseline JPEG, resulting in files that are fully compatible with any browser, photo' and is a Image Optimizer in the file management category. There are more than 50 alternatives to JPEGmini for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Windows, Mac, Linux and Wordpress apps. The best JPEGmini alternative is Caesium Image Compressor, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like JPEGmini are ImageOptim, TinyFast, OptiImage and RasterFox.

From developers to developers: a cross-platform tool for losslessly image compression.

tinyPNG.App provides a GUI front end for tinyPNG for your local computer so you can optimize images using the tinyPNG API service. Available on Windows, macOS & Linux.

Utilities for archiving photos for saving to long term storage or serving over the web. The goals are: use a common, well supported format (JPEG), minimize storage space and cost, identify duplicates / similar photos.

TinyJPG reduces the file size of your JPEG images. Every uploaded image is analyzed to apply the best possible JPEG encoding. Based on the content of your image an optimal strategy is chosen.

Extremely slow recompression rate in comparison. Waste of time


Imagine is a desktop app for compression of PNG and JPEG, with a modern and friendly UI. Save for web.

FILEminimizer Pictures from balesio compresses digital images and photos with file size reductions by up to 98%. For example, a JPEG photo with a size of 5 MB can be reduced to only 0.08 MB. The software features an innovative image optimization technology: the powerful...



Leanify is a lightweight lossless file minifier/optimizer. It removes unnecessary data (debug information, comments, metadata, etc.) and recompress the file to reduce file size. It will not reduce image quality at all.
With Image Optimizer you can losslessly optimize your PNG, JPEG and GIF files and thus save your bandwidth and your users' time! Kraken recompresses images with blazing speed and strips metadata with image quality intact.

Don’t spend another second worrying about compressing your images. Install Imgbot into your GitHub projects, and focus on your application.

A very great compression tool, is for example included in FileOptimizer!