chrissimpkins/Crunch
Insane(ly slow but wicked good) PNG image optimization observed · 2026-10-10
Health v2 · maintenance only
23/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3846
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1585
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
3424 stars · 149 forks observed · 2026-10-10
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Crunch is a lossy PNG image optimization tool that combines bit depth, color type, and palette reduction with zopfli DEFLATE compression via pngquant and zopflipng. It ships as a command line executable, a native macOS drag-and-drop GUI app, and a macOS Finder right-click service.
Use cases
- compress png images to smaller file sizes
- optimize pngs for web performance
- batch shrink png files from the command line
- reduce png size with minimal quality loss
- drag and drop png compression on mac
- optimize images before deploying a website
When to choose
- you need maximum PNG size reduction and can tolerate slight lossy quality reduction
- you want a simple CLI or macOS GUI for PNG optimization
- lossless optimizers like optipng are not shrinking your PNGs enough
When to avoid
- you require strictly lossless PNG compression
- you need fast batch processing - the zopfli-based approach is intentionally slow
- you need optimization of formats other than PNG
Facets
cli-tool · maturity maintenance
image-processing compression image-processing files developer-tools windows cli python png-optimization lossy-compression pngquant zopflipng zopfli gui macos-service macos linux
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/chrissimpkins/Crunch · fetched 2026-10-10 · 64bc6b6dee5a
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| chrissimpkins/Crunch | main | 23 |
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