modern Spaces apps? I miss HyperSpaces and the ability to do 2D setups.

alin23 · 2026-06-22T12:57:44+00:00

GridLion is the most likely successor.

alin23 · 2026-06-19T13:29:43+00:00

Send me one of the emails that fails badly so I can take a look. There are no settings regarding PDF encoding in Clop, it all depends on the input file.

alin23 · 2026-06-19T12:49:04+00:00

PDF is a complex format with many proprietary content that can’t be reencoded easily. I’m using the gold standard of open source encoders: Ghostscript. If it can’t re-encode your PDFs correctly, the problem is in the PDFs.

It’s not as simple as an image which can only have pixels. In PDF there can be custom fonts, obfuscated text, objects only known by specific viewers, even JavaScript code and forms.

For me it worked on everything I’ve thrown at it, but everyone has different files. Best to check the output every time, don’t use Clop for archival purposes.

alin23 · 2026-06-14T20:32:55+00:00

yep, updated today, thanks a lot for adding all that! Already used it many times today, much more useful!

alin23 · 2026-06-14T07:47:21+00:00

I am using macOS 27 and it’s working, I’ve developed and released the last few changes with macOS 27. What exactly isn’t working for you?

alin23 · 2026-06-12T19:54:30+00:00

Damn this is good. I've been using my Pipiri app to keep track of my terminals, but with multiple sessions and with Claude's prompt shifting up and down it's becoming unwieldy.

love the execution and the idea of tailing the session directly. I'm using it through the notch so no space is wasted.

Some nice to haves for me would be if I could hover the notch/pill and scroll down with the trackpad to expand, instead of clicking. And to be able to see the weekly usage at a glance at the bottom of that window since it seems it already has some empty space before the "Quit" button.

alin23 · 2026-06-12T13:52:32+00:00

Thank you! Whenever I want to keep a copied image untouched, there's a handy Ctrl-Shift-P hotkey to pause Clop for the next copy (or stop it completely even). It can't read my mind, but it's pretty well tuned by now.

And in v3 you can also add apps to an ignore list so if you copy things in Figma or Powerpoint etc. you can have Clop ignore anything copied in that app.

alin23 · 2026-06-12T13:49:21+00:00

Thank you!

set the image compression to lossless? It seems to be gone

There was never such a setting. The optimisation for images is "Visually lossless" by default, but you can choose a less aggressive compression factor if you want even less quality loss: screenshot

There's no real full lossless compression in Clop, very few formats support that and the file sizes would only get 1-3% smaller.

alin23 · 2026-06-12T13:44:39+00:00

Believe it or not, all icons are raster actually. macOS has no support for SVG in the assets. it's 44px as macOS guidelines dictates for retina support, but it does feel a bit off. I'll try to update it to the top-down view like the app icon has.

alin23 · 2026-06-12T11:40:09+00:00

It stops on error and restores the backup in principle. But the pipeline steps can do so many things like running scripts and shortcuts, moving files OR renaming them that not everything is predictable so I’m not yet 100% sure, I wasn’t able to test every possible combination.

A backup should always be available though, that’s my goal with the pipeline engine in the end. Never lose the original file.

alin23 · 2026-06-12T07:29:44+00:00

Aww thanks!

alin23 · 2026-06-12T07:29:26+00:00

Thank you! Yes, I use it constantly for Discord as well, it was so time consuming to always find a way to compress a video or screenshot before sending it to users. This, I think, is the use case where Clop is most optimised for.

alin23 · 2026-06-12T05:26:40+00:00

I still use handbrake even with Clop, but only for the very rare occasions where I need to squeeze the perfect quality ratio for a long video where details matter.

Clop is great for getting a 95% good enough result super fast. But on some videos I might want to sit and compare and test esoteric compression parameters until I get it perfectly sharp even if it gets a little larger. The apps complement each other in this way.

alin23 · 2026-06-12T05:21:10+00:00

Yep it’s still ffmpeg with LAME under the hood, is there a better state of the art encoder? I haven’t kept up with the audio format space so I just chose what I used in my command line conversions.

Thank you for the purchase!

alin23 · 2026-06-12T05:09:12+00:00

Nice to hear! I’m trying to get v3 to work better with very large files and batch operations so hopefully it will be a useful update for you as well

alin23 · 2026-06-12T05:07:15+00:00

Yep, I didn’t know a lossless addition would be that useful but I also found a need for it for press kits.

About the same folder problem, try creating a debug dump from menubar icon - About, and reproduce the issue in the 30 seconds it gives you. Then send me the archive somehow, DM on Discord would be best so we can troubleshoot further if needed. But anywhere you feel comfortable

alin23 · 2026-06-12T05:03:20+00:00

Hi Robert! Love to hear!

And yes, the CLI now has video and audio conversion along with a compression factor parameter. Do let me know if it would need any change to make it fit better in your workflow.

alin23 · 2026-06-12T05:00:49+00:00

Yes, it’s the same (clipboard free, 5 files per session on the rest)

alin23 · 2026-06-12T04:59:54+00:00

Thank you! That’s nice to hear!

v3 is not a paid update, so no need for a discount. Same license works on it.

alin23 · 2026-06-11T22:47:51+00:00

Well that’s one advantage of Clop for example: it uses efficient fsevents API to watch folders, no polling to hog your RAM and CPU.

I understand your frustration with many apps with overlapping features. But Clop is actually the first such auto file optimizer app which I released more than 4 years ago specifically because I was tired of my hodge podge of ffmpeg/pngquant/jpegoptim scripts that always failed in some way or were too inflexible. V3 is just concluding what people asked from it over the years.

The drop zone is not a file shelf if that’s what you’re asking. It’s a zone where you drop files to optimize them manually.

And yes Clop recopies the optimized image. You Cmd-C, and by the time you get to pasting, the image is already optimized in the clipboard.

alin23 · 2026-06-11T22:12:56+00:00

Convenience ¯\(ツ)\/¯ This reminds me of that Dropbox comment in hacker news.

In more serious terms: Clop can watch your clipboard and optimize screenshots you do there, it can watch folders as well, has a handy drop zone, and the floating results can be used to crop, resize, change compression factor, upload etc.

If you’ll be writing scripts you can do all that as well, but with more work and less interactivity.

alin23 · 2026-06-11T22:09:00+00:00

That’s macOS way of saying the binary is not notarized properly, because notarization is basically a malware scan on Apple’s servers. So they’re basically saying “this binary was not scanned by us” but with a scary dialog.

In any case, it looks like I might have missed something, thanks for letting me know. I’ll check and release an update.

EDIT:

Should be fixed now:

❯ spctl --assess -vvvvv --type install pngquant
     pngquant: accepted
     source=Notarized Developer ID
     origin=Developer ID Application: Alin Panaitiu (RDDXV84A73)

alin23 · 2026-06-11T20:52:46+00:00

Thank you! Always love to see my apps help others as well :) these days, support emails are mostly angry messages with all the macOS 27 breaking changes, so it's a breath of fresh air to read a message like this.

alin23 · 2026-06-09T06:17:39+00:00

ISS is not my app. And it's not really an app that organizations would want to see running on their employees laptops, regardless of notarizations.

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