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Curtail

Simple & useful image compressor

From Huluti·Updated June 22, 2026·View on GitHub·

Curtail (previously ImCompressor) is an useful image compressor, supporting PNG, JPEG, WebP and SVG file types. It support both lossless and lossy compression modes with an option to whether keep or not metadata of images. It is inspired by [Trimage](https://github.com/Kilian/Trimage) and [Image-Optimizer](https://github.com/GijsGoudzwaard/Image-Optimizer). The project is written primarily in Python, distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 license, first published in 2019. Key topics include: compressor, gnome, gnome-circle, gtk, gtk4.

Latest release: 1.16.2
May 25, 2026View Changelog →

Curtail

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Compress your images

Curtail (previously ImCompressor) is an useful image compressor, supporting PNG, JPEG, WebP and SVG file types.
It support both lossless and lossy compression modes with an option to whether keep or not metadata of images.
It is inspired by Trimage and Image-Optimizer.

Supported formats

PNG, JPEG, WebP, SVG

Screenshot

Curtail

Installation instructions

Curtail is available as a Flatpak package.

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You can also install it by using the following command-line:

flatpak install flathub com.github.huluti.Curtail

Distro packages

Packaging status

Unofficial packages

A Snap package is available:

Get it from the Snap Store

A PPA is available for Ubuntu (18.04+) and derivatives:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:apandada1/curtail
sudo apt update
sudo apt install curtail

A copr package is available for Fedora (36+):

sudo dnf copr enable 0xmrtt/curtail
sudo dnf install curtail

Build from source (nightly)

Build and install by running:

git clone https://github.com/Huluti/Curtail.git
cd Curtail
meson _build
cd _build
ninja
sudo ninja install

The app can then be removed with:

sudo ninja uninstall

Tech

Curtail uses a number of open source projects to work properly:

Translations

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License

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (v3)

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