Squeeze compresses and converts any footage on your Mac. Drop files in, press one button and get HandBrake-quality results. Or just right-click in Finder.
Squeeze makes the footage you shot fit wherever it needs to go: smaller files, any format, without touching resolution, frame rate or a single setting you didn't ask for.
Uses HandBrake's own default quality, minus the things you didn't ask for: no 1080p cap, no 30 fps cap and no cropping.
23 formats, from MP4 and ProRes to GIF and MP3. Squeeze sends each job to the best engine automatically.
Pick an engine and a codec, or don't. The defaults are what most people end up choosing anyway.
Keep original codecs. Need that MKV as an MP4? Squeeze can change only the container, without re-encoding. There's no quality loss, and it takes seconds instead of minutes. If the codecs don't fit, it converts the file properly instead.
Every Squeeze action lives in Finder's right-click menu. Choose one and keep working. Squeeze runs quietly in the background and saves next to the original.
name_compressed.mp4, or anywhere you choose.Drop in dozens of files or whole folders. Compress and Convert each have a queue and can run at the same time.
Prefixes, suffixes and a save location you choose. It never overwrites a file; it adds a number instead.
See every file at a glance, stop everything or open the app, right from the menu bar.
A note when each file is done, showing how much space you saved. Click it to find the file.
A native SwiftUI app with full keyboard shortcuts: ⌘O to add and ⌘↩ to start.
Everything happens on your Mac. No uploads, accounts, analytics or tracking, and it works offline.
No installers, no plugins and nothing else to download. HandBrake and FFmpeg are already inside the app.
.dmg from the button above or the releases page.Requires macOS 26 Tahoe on a Mac with Apple Silicon.
Yes. There's no trial, account or watermark.
It depends on the source. Phone and camera footage often shrinks by 60–90%. Videos that are already heavily compressed shrink less. H.265 usually gives files about half the size of H.264 at the same quality.
Compression always trades a little quality for size. Squeeze uses HandBrake's default quality level, which most people can't tell apart from the original at normal viewing sizes. It never changes the resolution or frame rate. For a perfect copy, convert with "Keep original codecs", which doesn't re-encode at all.
Squeeze needs macOS 26 Tahoe and is built for Apple Silicon (M1 and newer), so it can use the latest SwiftUI and Liquid Glass design.
Open Squeeze once from Applications. Then check System Settings → General → Login Items & Extensions → Finder and make sure Squeeze is on. If it's on but still missing, relaunch Finder: hold Option, right-click the Finder icon in the Dock and choose Relaunch.
No. Squeeze is an independent app that includes the open-source HandBrakeCLI and FFmpeg under their GPL licences. All credit for those engines goes to their developers.
Yes. The full source is on GitHub, including the build script that produces the DMG. Bug reports and ideas are welcome there.
Free for macOS 26 on Apple Silicon. No account, no watermark, no limits.
Made by one independent developer.The full source is on GitHub. Ideas and bug reports are welcome.
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