Like Squoosh, but a full toolkit.
Nothing leaves your device.
Squoosh (Google's browser image compressor) is a genuinely good, on-device tool — and so is NearIMG. The difference is scope: alongside compression, NearIMG also handles resize, crop, rotate, watermark, blur, GIF creation, memes and batch renaming, all in the same private, on-device workflow.
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Why use one tool for the whole edit instead of switching between apps?
A single image often needs more than one step — resize, then crop, then a watermark before it's ready to share. Squoosh handles compression well but stops there, so the rest of that chain means opening other apps or sites. NearIMG keeps every step — compress, resize, crop, watermark, convert — in the same on-device workflow, so the file doesn't have to bounce between tools to get finished.
How it works
- Open the Compress tool and drop your images in — a whole batch at once, where Squoosh works one image at a time.
- Move the quality slider; NearIMG re-encodes in the background and shows the measured output size for every file before you commit.
- Download — one file directly, batches as a ZIP. Need more than compression? Crop, resize, watermark or convert in the same place, still on-device.
An honest scope note: Squoosh's specialty is codec depth — it ships advanced encoders and lets you A/B the result up close, which is exactly right for squeezing one hero image. NearIMG's browser-native encoders don't expose that codec-level tuning; what they buy instead is breadth — batch processing with a ZIP download, plus the whole editing chain (crop, resize, watermark, convert, GIF) in one on-device workflow. Pick by the job: one image tuned to perfection, Squoosh; many images through a multi-step pipeline, NearIMG.
Is NearIMG on-device like Squoosh, or does it upload my image?
On-device, same as Squoosh. Your image is never uploaded — a strict Content-Security-Policy technically blocks any request that could send file data out, and it's free with no sign-up.
What can NearIMG do that Squoosh can't?
Squoosh focuses on compressing and comparing a single image's format and quality. NearIMG adds a full toolkit around that: crop, rotate, flip, watermark, blur, GIF creation, a meme generator, resize-for-social presets and batch renaming — all on-device, in one place.
Can NearIMG compress many images at once?
Yes — drop in a whole batch, one quality setting applies to all, each file's measured size is shown, and everything downloads as a single ZIP. Batch workflows are the main practical gap this fills next to Squoosh's one-at-a-time flow.