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Looks interesting, though on recent iOS devices, images will be in HEIF format, which is about 50% the size of JPEG at similar quality, and MozJPEG isn't compatible with it afaik.

If you're interested in compressing JPEGs without quality loss, there's a free Mac app called ImageOptim that can handle JPEG, GIF and PNG. It has Google's Guetlzi, so on some JPEG you can reach 20-40% compression without any loss of quality that I could detect (and sometimes lower levels around 10% on images that are already well compressed or smaller resolution).

https://imageoptim.com/mac



50% is extremely optimistic between HEIF and a good JPEG encoder (mozjpeg/guetzli).

Guetzli usually produces very slightly better results than mozjpeg but is several hundred times slower. The 20-40% comparision is vs libjpeg.


Guetlzi comparison is mostly against JPEGs you can find in the wild (ie. from a digital camera).

In my experience, Guetzli is a lot slowly than mozjpeg, but tops up at much higher space savings when the conditions are right.




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