MAZANOKE: A self-hosted local image compressor that runs in your browser
MAZANOKE is a simple image compressor and converter that runs entirely in your browser. No external uploads, works offline as a web app, and is powered by the "Browser Image Compression" library.
Github project page: https://github.com/civilblur/mazanoke
Features
- 🚀 Compress & Convert Images Instantly In Your Browser
- Adjust image quality (0-100%).
- Set a target file size.
- Set max dimensions, to not exceed a certain width/height.
- Convert between JPG, PNG, and WebP.
- 🌍 Installable Web App
- Use as a Progressive Web App (PWA).
- Dark and light mode.
- Fully responsive for desktop, tablet, and mobile.
- 🔒 Privacy-Focused
- Works offline.
- All image processing happens locally.
- No data is uploaded to external servers. Your files stay on your device.
Use case
This app is designed to compress smaller batches of images, aimed at casual users who need to compress and convert a few images at a time.
I created it primarily for friends and family who are less tech-savvy, to help them compress and convert images in a simple, safe, and private way.
Since the compression is handled in the browser, it won't cause any additional load on your server.
Additional notes
- I wanted it to be low-dependency, so it's built using pure HTML/CSS/JS.
- If you're wondering about the excessive amount of animations used, it's simply because I wanted to have fun working on this project. These types of animations are usually impractical for general purpose websites and are impractical to maintain.
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Something like that could be also interesting for a Lemmy frontend to make it easier to share images on instances that have strict upload limits.
Yes indeed, the library I used "Browser Image Compression" is quite easy to work with. I did this as a weekend project + a few more days to prepare for open sourcing.
I'd love if there was a way to hook this onto apps like discord to automatically compress images too big to upload
Probably could be used with betterdiscord that supports js plugins.
Pretty sure Vencord is what's used now. It's what I use at least because it's preinstalled with Vesktop.
Nah, Betterdiscord is still alive and kicking. And it still has the best image utility plugin.
Ah I see, I'm still on webcord to be honest (not for any particular specific reason).
For windows the powertoys resize extension works great, just a right click option to easily make images smaller.
Sidenote: A similar app is https://squoosh.app/
This has analytics tracking and is made by Google though. I intentionally wanted to stray away from that.
Edit: typo
Amen. Time for a star+ download
Cool! I was just thinking about putting something like this together.
I'll check it out today!
It would be nice if it worked in Node.js
Does node have access to a browser compression command? It kinda defeats the purpose of running it entirely in the client’s browser and offloading the processing from the server.
Sharp or Jimp run in it instead right?
^disclaimer, I’m still running rmagick in ruby and don’t play with the cool new toys as much these days).^
Installed. It's great! Easy and fast. I'll be using this almost daily. Thank you.
Damn this is something I need to look into.
Okay now do videos