The price anchor
| Shrinkray | TinyPNG Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $0 — no subscription | ~$39/yr + API fees |
| Annual | $0 after purchase | $39 |
| 5-year total | $19 | $195 |
| 10-year total | $19 | $390 |
Subscription figures from the vendor's published pricing (~$39/yr + API fees, ~$39/yr); the Shrinkray column is the full price, paid once.
Break-even analysis
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.
- After 1 year: Shrinkray has cost you $19 total — TinyPNG Pro has cost $39.
- After 3 years: Shrinkray is still $19 — the subscription is at $117.
- After 5 years: Shrinkray is still $19 — the subscription is at $195.
What you get for $19 once
- 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.
- Max-dimension resize. Cap the longest edge for web exports — without upscaling.
- No renewal, ever. The license does not expire and there is no per-seat meter — $19 is the whole price.
Pricing 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.
Shrinkray — $19, one time
Or get Shrinkray plus every other app in the suite: the OneTimeSuite bundle is currently $97, one time.