What’s changed

A long hard look at every corner of the app, and everything it turned up. Replace works in the App Store version now, and a handful of files that came out subtly wrong come out right.

• Replace works in the App Store version
  Replacing the originals failed for a picture dragged in on its own, because the App Store version is only allowed into folders you have shown it. It now asks for the folder once and remembers it. The download from the website never needed to ask, and still doesn't.
• Replace never loses part of a file
  A PDF or TIFF with several pages, an animated GIF, or an icon holding several sizes would have come back as a single picture with the original in the Trash. Replace now leaves those alone and says why, and the rest of the export carries on. The batch also holds still while an export runs, so nothing can be taken out halfway and then written anyway.
• Removing private details works on more files
  Some PNGs kept their location and other details when you asked for them to be taken out, and some SVGs kept theirs too. Both are fixed. A link dragged in from a web browser is now ignored rather than downloaded.
• Pictures come out right
  Display P3 colour survives when a transparent picture is flattened into a JPEG, and formats that can't hold it get converted properly instead of coming out in the wrong colours. SVGs that use styles and filters keep their transparent backgrounds, and a picture an SVG links to but can't find no longer turns up as a red block. A TIFF with several pages lets you pick the page, as a PDF does. An empty naming pattern used to write hidden files called “.png”, and now uses the original's name. And an absurd custom size no longer quits the app.
• Settings fits on your screen
  A long naming pattern could push the bottom of the Settings window off the screen, out of reach. It stays on the screen now and scrolls when it has to, and the scroll bar it used to draw for no reason has gone.
• Easier to drive from the keyboard, and easier to see
  After you resize the window, the arrow keys move to the picture that is really above or below. A dropdown no longer reacts to typing in another window, and the Options panel keeps up while it is open. With Increase Contrast turned on in System Settings, the edges of cards and dropdowns get stronger along with the rest of macOS.
• Quicker with big batches
  Drop in a thousand pictures and the window no longer stalls while it works out what each one will weigh. Hitting a target size takes fewer attempts, and thumbnails stop piling up in memory.

A small one. The window comes back after you close it, and the Open panel picks folders again on macOS 27.

• Closing the window no longer strands you
  Close the window and the app carries on running with your pictures still loaded, but until now the only way back was the Dock icon. There is a Window ▸ Images by Edmund item now, on ⌘0, and everything you had dropped in is still there when it comes back.
• Choosing a folder works on macOS 27
  macOS 27 quietly changed how the Open panel behaves, and File ▸ Open… stopped letting you pick a folder. Dragging one in was fine the whole time. Picking one works again.

The first one, so all of it is new. Nine jobs I kept doing badly in three different places, put in one window.

• Nine everyday jobs, one window
  Turn a file into another kind of file, resize it, make it smaller, make a Mac app icon, hit a size limit, take the private details out of a photo. Nothing that needs a brush, and nothing that needs a tutorial.
• A whole folder at a time
  Drag in fifty pictures and they all get the same treatment. The converter websites do one at a time, cap the size, and wrap the lot in adverts. This does it in a drag and a click, with nothing to upload and nothing to wait for.
• Smaller files that look identical
  Leave the settings alone and it simply shrinks what you gave it, without changing what it is or how it looks. Every picture tells you what it will weigh before you press Export, and that figure is the real one rather than a guess.
• Logos and PDFs come out sharp
  Drop in an SVG or a PDF, say how big you want it, and it gets drawn at that size instead of blown up from a smaller copy. This is the one that is genuinely awkward to do any other way, and it is the job that got the app written.
• It keeps itself up to date
  The copy you get straight from here checks for a new version on its own and offers it to you. The one from the App Store updates the way everything else on your Mac does. Same app either way.
• Free, and staying that way
  No trial, no subscription, nothing locked behind a purchase, no adverts, and no account to make. Edmund is the app I charge for. This one I just wanted to exist.