Clop for Mac
Image, video, PDF and clipboard optimiser.
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Clop overview
Clop helps you to copy large, paste small, send fast.
Features
- Optimise images as soon as you copy them — As long as the Clop app is running, every time you copy an image to your clipboard, Clop will optimise it to the smallest possible size. The optimised image will have minimal to zero loss in quality, and will be ready to paste in any app.
- Screen recordings as small as screenshots — Sending screen recordings becomes 10x faster with Clop. The app will optimise the video as soon as you stop recording. The video will be available as a floating thumbnail, ready for you to drag and drop in any app. Clop can use Apple Silicon's dedicated Media Engine chip for battery-efficient video encoding without using the CPU.
- Downscale in a pinch — Get images and videos ready for sharing by scaling them down to any resolution. Use handy hotkeys or the floating buttons to downscale the image or video and get an even smaller file size.
- Power user features — (A) On-demand optimisation; (B) Compatible formats (converting less compatible formats like HEIC, tiff, mov to formats understood by most devices); (C) macOS Shortcuts integration.
What's new in version 3.7.2
- Mixed Raster Content (MRC) for scanned PDFs: the
text of a scan is compressed separately from the paper and pictures
around it, which can make scans several times smaller
Scans of clean printed or typed text gain the most. Their text stays sharp while the file shrinks.
Faint, soft or bold text can get hard to read, because letters fill in or break apart. Grey smudges can appear next to words, and the texture of the paper is lost, which matters for old letters and archival scans.
MRC is off by default because of these risks. It can be enabled for every PDF in Settings > PDF, with an optional DPI limit, or applied to one PDF at a time with the MRC toggle on its result, Apply MRC compression in the right-click menu or the
mrcpipeline step.
- Custom encoder paths in Settings > General > Advanced, for Macs where only approved binaries are allowed to run
- Fix some .mov files being optimised as MOV instead of converted to MP4 by the conversion rules
- Fix PDF results showing the wrong original size after changing the DPI
- Fix images in spot colours losing their transparency when a PDF is optimised
- Fix Keep debug logs showing up as
shin System Settings > Login Items - Fixed a possible crash when a Limba translation has placeholders that don't match the English text
- Fixed a possible freeze while translating Clop with Limba on a busy disk
- Fixed a possible freeze at the end of a pipeline when the file is on a slow network or cloud drive
- PDFs come out about 3% smaller with no change in quality, and about 9% smaller with lossless compression at 300 DPI
- PDFs with JPEG images come out about 2% smaller, with no change in quality
- Option to keep Clop's icon in the Dock
- The Dock icon has the same menu as the menu bar icon when the menu bar icon is hidden
- Future updates are smaller to download when only some of the bundled tools change
- Bundled tools updated: libjxl 0.13 (security fixes), exiftool 13.63 and qpdf 12.4.2
Clop for Mac
$15.00
In English
Version 3.7.2
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User Ratings
Jan 28, 2025
Version: 2.8.7
I downloaded Clop after rave reviews, bought the pro version, loaded it onto my macbook pro m4, and the problem started there. While i could drag and drop videos to a dropzone to be optimised, i could access no other functionality to customise the use. I contacted the developer who gave me a few things to try, which did not work. He refused to help me trouble shoot any further. Had he ****isted me, i would have bought 15 to 30 more apps for my staff in my media company to use, but that wont be happening.
Jan 3, 2024
Version: 2.5.3
The best optimizer on Mac for even all my files, works great for all kind of files and the shortcuts automation and the integration with other well know apps make it unique. Really saved me a ton on time making my uploads lighter and fast to send, totally recommend it to all make user, a must have Mac hack.
Oct 11, 2023
Version: v2.2.1
There are a lot of image optimizers and compressors out there, but until now, in my experience, the venerable ImageOptim had no real contenders. Having used Clop for just half an hour, I discovered that this is the first app that matched and surpassed my old-time favorite tool and allowed me to work faster and easier. The developers of Clop have been very friendly in responding to my support and feature request queries. All in all, definitely try this one, and you may find it to be your new image compressing tool, just like I did.