🚀 Drop Compress Image: The Modern Image Converter

Drop Compress Image is a powerful, fast, and versatile GUI tool for converting your images into next-generation formats. Built with performance in mind, it leverages modern codecs to bring you the best in speed, quality, and file size. Say goodbye to outdated formats and hello to the future of web images!

This project was created to provide a comprehensive conversion solution, supporting a wide range of input formats and exporting to highly efficient formats like AVIF, JPEG XL, and WebP.

✨ Features

Wide Format Support: Convert from dozens of classic and modern image formats.

Next-Gen Output: Export images to AVIF, JPEG XL (also JPEG transcode), and WebP (both lossy and lossless) for superior compression and quality.

High Performance: Built with Rust for speed and reliability you can count on.

International Ready: Fully localized interface available in multiple languages.

🔀 Supported Formats

ImageForge handles a vast array of file types for both input and output.

Input Formats

We support a huge range of input formats, including:

• AV1 Image Format (*.avif)
• Microsoft Windows Bitmap Image (*.bmp)
• Direct Draw Surface (*.dds)
• Farbfeld (*.ff)
• Graphics Interchange Format (*.gif)
• Radiance High Dynamic Range image file (*.hdr)
• Computer icon encoded in ICO file format (*.ico)
• Joint Photographic Experts Group (*.jpg, *.jpeg)
• OpenEXR image (*.exr)
• Portable Network Graphic (*.png)
• Portable Any Map (*.pnm)
• Quite OK Image Format (*.qoi)
• Truevision Graphics Adapter (*.tga)
• Tagged Image File Format (*.tif, *.tiff)
• WebP (*.webp)
• JPEG 2000 (*.jp2, *.j2c, *.j2k, *.jpf, *.jpx, *.jpm, *.mj2, *.jph)
• JPEG XL (*.jxl)

Note about HEIC/HEIF files: HEIC/HEIF format is not supported due to licensing constraints (LGPL-3.0). If you need to convert HEIC files, please use macOS Preview app (File → Export → JPEG) or other tools first. Modern iPhones now capture photos in JPEG XL format, which is fully supported.

...and all other formats supported by the excellent Rust image crate.

Output Formats

Optimize your images by converting them to these modern, highly efficient formats:

• AVIF (.avif)
• JPEG XL (.jxl) - JPEG transcode supported.
• WebP (.webp) - Lossy & Lossless supported (libwebp v1.6.0)
• PNG (.png) - Implemented with Oxipng. Zopfli compression.
• JPEG (.jpg) - Implemented with jpegli.

📦 Installation

Package Managers

Windows (Chocolatey)

choco install drop-compress-image

macOS (Homebrew)

brew tap logue/tap
brew install drop-compress-image

Manual Installation

Download the latest release from the Releases page:

• Windows: .msi installer
• macOS: .dmg disk image (Apple Silicon)
• Linux: .deb or .AppImage

🛠️ Building from Source

Quick Start

Windows

# Install vcpkg and dependencies first
git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git C:\vcpkg
cd C:\vcpkg
.\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat

# Set environment variable
$env:VCPKG_ROOT = "C:\vcpkg"

# Install dependencies (see docs/content/ja/windows-build-vcpkg.md for details)
cd path\to\DropWebP\app\src-tauri
.\setup-vcpkg.ps1

# Build the application
cd ..
pnpm install
pnpm run build:tauri

For detailed Windows build instructions including vcpkg setup, see Windows Build Guide.

Build Issues? See WINDOWS_BUILD_FIX.md for troubleshooting.

macOS / Linux

cd app
pnpm install
pnpm run build:tauri

Cross-platform Linux Build using Docker

Build Linux packages from Windows or macOS using Docker:

# For Windows (PowerShell)
pnpm run build:tauri:linux-x64    # Build x86_64 .deb and .rpm
pnpm run build:tauri:linux-arm64  # Build ARM64 .deb and .rpm

# For macOS/Linux (Bash)
bash scripts/docker/docker-build.sh x64    # Build x86_64
bash scripts/docker/docker-build.sh arm64  # Build ARM64

Requirements: Docker Desktop with Linux container support

For detailed build instructions, see the Development Documentation.

📂 Project Structure

DropWebP/
├── app/                    # Main Tauri application
│   ├── src/               # Vue.js frontend (TypeScript + Vuetify)
│   └── src-tauri/         # Rust backend (image processing)
├── docs/                  # Documentation site (Nuxt 3)
│   └── content/           # Multi-language documentation
│       ├── ja/           # Japanese (日本語)
│       ├── en/           # English
│       ├── fr/           # French (Français)
│       ├── ko/           # Korean (한국어)
│       ├── zhHans/       # Simplified Chinese (简体中文)
│       └── zhHant/       # Traditional Chinese (繁體中文)
├── docker/                # Dockerfiles for cross-platform builds
├── scripts/               # Build and deployment scripts
│   ├── build/            # Native build scripts
│   └── docker/           # Docker build scripts
└── .github/              # GitHub Actions workflows

🌐 Localization

The user interface is available in the following languages:

• 🇬🇧 English
• 🇫🇷 French
• 🇯🇵 Japanese (日本語)
• 🇰🇷 Korean (한국어)
• 🇨🇳 Chinese (中文)

License

©2023, 2025-2026 by Logue. Licensed under the MIT License.