squash

A blazing fast desktop lossless image compression app built with Rust and GPUI.

Compress images by dragging them into the window. Native performance, zero fuss.

Features

• Lossless compression for PNG, JPEG, WebP, and GIF formats
• Supports JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP, and TIFF
• Native desktop GUI built with GPUI (Zed's framework)
• Parallel compression using Rayon
• Drag and drop support
• Real-time preview with disk-cached rendering
• Custom title bar with window dragging
• Cross-platform (macOS, Linux, Windows)

Installation

Download the latest release from the releases page:

macOS (Apple Silicon)

curl -L https://github.com/thihathit/squash/releases/latest/download/Squash_0.2.0_aarch64.dmg -o Squash_0.2.0_aarch64.dmg
open Squash_0.2.0_aarch64.dmg

Linux (x86_64)

AppImage:

curl -L https://github.com/thihathit/squash/releases/latest/download/squash_0.2.0_x86_64.AppImage -o squash.AppImage
chmod +x squash.AppImage
./squash.AppImage

Debian/Ubuntu:

curl -L https://github.com/thihathit/squash/releases/latest/download/squash_0.2.0_amd64.deb -o squash_0.2.0_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i squash_0.2.0_amd64.deb

Windows

Download and run squash_0.2.0_x64-setup.exe.

Usage

Launch the app, drag your images into the window, and they'll be compressed instantly.

Development

Prerequisites

• Rust (edition 2024)
• GPUI dependencies (see GPUI prerequisites)

Build

cargo build --release

Run

cargo run --release