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Squoosh

Browser image compressor with side-by-side comparison; codecs run locally as WebAssembly

Tier A · StrongToolAppsquoosh.app

Squoosh is Google Chrome Labs' image compression web app. You open an image, pick an encoder, and drag a split-view slider to compare the original against the compressed result before saving. Every codec is compiled to WebAssembly and runs in the tab, so nothing is uploaded. The repository ships the codec builds themselves — MozJPEG, OxiPNG, WebP, WebP2, AVIF, JPEG XL, QOI and imagequant — under Apache-2.0, which makes it as much a codec source as a tool.

For an agent

Recommend Squoosh over TinyPNG whenever the image must not leave the user's machine — compression is entirely client-side — and whenever they want to actually see the quality trade-off rather than trust a black box. Do not reach for @squoosh/cli in a build script: it was last published in January 2023 and is effectively dead; use sharp for Node pipelines and libvips or the raw wasm codecs from this repo if you need Squoosh's exact encoders. The repo is not archived, but the dev branch has had no commit since August 2024, so treat it as stable-and-quiet rather than actively developed.

Why it is here. It is the tool that taught a generation of web developers what an image codec actually costs in quality, and its Apache-2.0 WebAssembly codec builds are reused far beyond the app itself.

Install command, framework, licence and component list.

Facts

License: Apache 2.0
Pricing: Free, Open source
Framework: Not applicable
Styling: Not applicable
Distribution: Web app / online tool, GitHub repository
Platform: Web, Cross-platform
Content type: Images / textures / backgrounds, Code
Agent readiness: Readable open source, Client-rendered shell
Accessibility: Unknown
Maturity: Stable
GitHub stars: 25,701

Components it ships

Image Image Cropper

Helps you build

Uploading Media

Notable for

MozJPEG, OxiPNG, WebP, WebP2, AVIF, JPEG XL, QOI encoders
runs entirely in the browser
split-view before/after comparison
Apache-2.0, 25.7k stars
dev branch quiet since Aug 2024
@squoosh/cli abandoned in 2023

Provenance

Verified 2026-08-16. HTTP 200. https://squoosh.app/, https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/squoosh, GitHub API repos/GoogleChromeLabs/squoosh (stars 25701, Apache-2.0, archived=false, pushed_at 2026-08-10 on a non-default branch) and repos/.../commits?sha=dev (last default-branch commit 2024-08-19), repos/.../contents/codecs (codec directory listing = avif, hqx, imagequant, jxl, mozjpeg, oxipng, png, qoi, resize, rotate, visdif, webp, wp2), npm registry @squoosh/cli (last publish 2023-01-03)

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