Shrinkray vs TinyPNG Pro pricing: $117 vs $19 once

OneTimeSuite Blog · Published 2026-07-21

Stop uploading your images to random websites 20 at a time. Shrinkray runs 100% on your machine — drag in a thousand photos, pick a quality, and watch the megabytes melt away. No upload limits, no monthly bill, no cloud, no telemetry.

This is the full pricing breakdown: what TinyPNG Pro actually costs over one, two and three years, what Shrinkray gives you for $19 paid once, and the honest cases where the subscription is still the right call.

What TinyPNG Pro actually costs you

At ~$39/yr + API fees, one TinyPNG Pro subscription adds up to $39 every year — $117 over a three-year window, for software you stop owning the day you cancel. Shrinkray is $19 the day you buy it, and the meter never runs again.

Three years in, the gap is $98 — and every year after that adds another $39 to the subscription side of the ledger.

Shrinkray vs TinyPNG Pro, feature by feature

Price is only half the story — here's how the two line up on the things that decide day-to-day use:

What you get for $19, once

Batch-compress a thousand photos locally — JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF — no upload limits. The highlights:

• 🖼️ Drag & drop batches — JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, TIFF. Drop a whole shoot at once.
• 📉 Live savings dashboard — Per-file and total before → after sizes with animated counters and % saved.
• 🎚️ Quality slider — Full 1–100 control, powered by mozjpeg-grade encoders via sharp (libvips).
• 🔁 Format conversion — Keep the original format, or convert everything to JPG, PNG, WebP or AVIF in one pass.

Pay for a few months of any subscription compressor and you've already spent more than Shrinkray costs — and you still won't own anything.

Switching is 3 steps

1. Buy once on Whop. One-time $19 — the cheapest app in the suite, and probably the one you'll use most.
2. Install in one click. Signed Windows installer. sharp ships prebuilt — nothing to compile, nothing to configure.
3. Drop a folder, export. Set quality and format once; settings persist. Watch the savings counter climb.

When paying TinyPNG Pro is still the right call

Being straight about it: the subscription earns its keep in three situations. If your team is large enough that TinyPNG Pro's collaboration features, permissions and admin controls are genuinely load-bearing; if your workflow is built on its integrations and leaving means rebuilding that plumbing; or if you have enterprise requirements — SSO, audit logs, SLAs, a vendor to call — that a pay-once app doesn't come with. Everyone else is paying ~$39/yr + API fees for a job that runs fine on hardware they already own.

If that's you, Shrinkray is $19, once. For the deeper dive, read the Shrinkray vs TinyPNG Pro head-to-head.

Frequently asked questions

Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/image-compressor-mvp. $19 gets you the signed installer, 1-click setup and updates.

Is the compression as good as TinyPNG?
It uses sharp/libvips with mozjpeg-grade encoders — the same engines behind most professional pipelines. At equal quality settings, results are comparable; you also get AVIF, which typically beats PNG/JPG sizes outright.

Will it overwrite my originals?
Never. Output goes to a folder you choose, or next to originals with a _compressed suffix.

Is there an API or CLI?
Not in the app — it's a desktop tool. The MIT source exposes the pure-Node compression pipeline if you want to script it.

Does it phone home?
No. Zero network calls, zero telemetry, no account. You can verify that in the source.

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