Hello everyone, I'm an independent developer from China and the creator of ImageSlim.

This year marks my first year as an independent developer. In the first half of the year, I developed three iOS apps, and in the second half, I learned and developed Mac apps. ImageSlim is my first macOS app.

Before this, I used TinyPNG for web image compression to save space on my server. However, I discovered that there were no free apps similar to TinyPNG on the Chinese App Store, and no open source image compression tools.

I used ChatGPT to create ImageSlim, a free and open source app. It actually uses the Mac's native image compression engine. Because PNG and GIF formats are not very efficient, I incorporated third-party image compression libraries like pngquant and gifsicle.