CompressOrDie

Spec sheet

Purpose

CompressOrDie provides in-browser tools for compressing image files.Read 11 Oct 2026 · compress-or-die.com

Free plan

YesRead 24 Sep 2026 · compress-or-die.com

Support

The feedback page invites bug reports and feature suggestions and says the maintainer can read and answer in German or English.Read 11 Oct 2026 · compress-or-die.com

Headquarters

Hamburg, GermanyRead 19 Oct 2026 · compress-or-die.com

Founded

2016Read 19 Oct 2026 · compress-or-die.com

Available formats

The site lists live compressors for JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, and SVG; JPEG XL and AVIF are marked as coming soon.Read 11 Oct 2026 · compress-or-die.com

Compression modes

bothRead 24 Sep 2026 · compress-or-die.com

Controls

The site says its compressors expose settings such as quantisation tables, chroma subsampling, trellis, and separate luma and chroma quality.Read 11 Oct 2026 · compress-or-die.com

File size limits

The JPEG, PNG, and WebP tools accept JPEG, PNG, WebP, and GIF inputs up to 32 MB; the GIF tool accepts GIFs up to 64 MB; the SVG tool accepts SVGs up to 8 MB.Read 11 Oct 2026 · compress-or-die.com

GIF features

The GIF compressor supports lossy LZW compression, palette reduction, dithering, frame trimming, playback speed, and loop control.Read 11 Oct 2026 · compress-or-die.com

Hosting

The privacy policy identifies DigitalOcean, LLC as the website host and says a data processing agreement is in place.Read 11 Oct 2026 · compress-or-die.com

Image resizing

YesRead 24 Sep 2026 · compress-or-die.com

JPEG features

The JPEG compressor supports separate luminance and chrominance settings, metadata selection, lossless auto-rotation, and Lanczos3 downscaling.Read 11 Oct 2026 · compress-or-die.com

Local processing

The site says every codec runs as WebAssembly in the browser and uploaded images never leave the user's device.Read 11 Oct 2026 · compress-or-die.com

Maintainer and relaunch

The site says Timo Strauß has operated and maintained the relaunched service since 2026, after Christoph Erdmann ran it from 2016 to 2026.Read 11 Oct 2026 · compress-or-die.com

Metadata controls

YesRead 24 Sep 2026 · compress-or-die.com

PNG features

The PNG compressor supports palette reduction from 2 to 256 colours, dithering, and truecolor encoding that preserves every pixel.Read 11 Oct 2026 · compress-or-die.com

Privacy and analytics

The privacy policy says Matomo analytics is self-hosted, operates without cookies, and shortens IP addresses before storage.Read 11 Oct 2026 · compress-or-die.com

Supported formats

JPEG,PNG,WebP,GIF,SVGRead 24 Sep 2026 · compress-or-die.com

SVG features

The SVG compressor uses SVGO and can remove scripts and event handlers by default while showing raw and gzipped file sizes.Read 11 Oct 2026 · compress-or-die.com

WebP features

The WebP compressor offers lossy and lossless modes, separate alpha quality, encoder effort, and control over deblocking.Read 11 Oct 2026 · compress-or-die.com

Plans and prices

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Where Specifiction places it

• Image Compression Software#31 of 858.2