Caesium VS pngquant

Caesium

The next step in productivity and talent management

pngquant

command-line utility and library for lossy compression of PNG images

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2018-09-29

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2018-10-22

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Compress PNG Images Up To 80% While Keeping Transparency With pngquant

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Caesium and pngquant)

pngquant

Image Optimisation

15 15%

Image Optimisation

85% 85

Image Editing

10 10%

Image Editing

90% 90

Photos & Graphics

18 18%

Photos & Graphics

82% 82

Image Effects

0 0%

Image Effects

100% 100

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, pngquant seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 28 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Caesium mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Caesium yet. Tracking of Caesium recommendations started around Mar 2021.

pngquant mentions (28)

Random Code Inspiration Volume 2
Image-shrinker is a simple, easy to use open source tool for shrinking images. Under the hood it uses pngquant, mozjpg, SVGO, and gifsicle. You can also install these tools individually if you need to compress some images. I often use pngquantafter exporting PNGs for web projects from Figma or similar tools. I literally run it like this:. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago
keeping collection size down (for ankiweb) when needing lots of image cards/notes
Searching more I found https://pngquant.org/ which I could add to my bulk workflow to make most png's approach the jpeg size. Source: 11 months ago
screen capture/snapshot utility with image optimization support/configurability
But this did prompt me to do some searching, and I see https://pngquant.org/ which seems to achieve jpeg like size reduction while maintaining the file as a png. One difference they note is that this method will typically preserve sharp edges better than jpeg (which is probably a strong plus for my type of use case). Source: 11 months ago
Exported png image with color-to-alpha edit is huge
Pngquant is also great for shaving filesizes down, but unlike oxipng, it's explicitly lossy. It'll reduce colors and even dither, but it will try to keep an image visually similar. Https://pngquant.org/. Source: over 1 year ago
Name a program that doesn't get enough love!
Oxipng, pngquant and svgcleaner — optimizing images. Source: over 1 year ago