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Clop Overview
Clop is a free and open-source macOS utility designed to automatically optimize images, videos, PDFs, and clipboard content. Its main purpose is to reduce file sizes while maintaining good visual quality, making files faster to upload, share, send, or paste into other applications. Once running, Clop can monitor copied images and optimize them automatically before they are pasted elsewhere.
The application is particularly useful for people who frequently work with screenshots, screen recordings, images, documents, and other large files. It can also optimize screen recordings immediately after recording, with Apple Silicon Macs able to use Apple’s dedicated Media Engine for more efficient video encoding. Users can manually trigger optimization, downscale images and videos to selected resolutions, and configure automatic format conversion for formats such as HEIC, TIFF, and MOV.
Clop also supports macOS Shortcuts, allowing optimization tasks to be incorporated into automated workflows. The project is open source and provides both free and Pro functionality. The free version continues to work after its trial period, while Pro adds additional capabilities.
Features
- Automatic Image Optimization — Automatically reduces the size of images copied to the clipboard while aiming to preserve visual quality.
- Video Optimization — Compresses video files to make them smaller and easier to share or upload.
- PDF Optimization — Optimizes PDF files to reduce their file size while keeping them usable for sharing and storage.
- Clipboard Optimization — Manually optimize the current clipboard content using a keyboard shortcut or Clop’s controls.
- Automatic Screen Recording Optimization — Optimizes screen recordings after they are created, making large recordings easier to send or share.
- Apple Silicon Media Engine Support — On Apple Silicon Macs, Clop can use the dedicated Media Engine for battery-efficient video encoding.
- Image Downscaling — Reduce an image’s resolution quickly using keyboard shortcuts or floating controls.
- Video Downscaling — Scale videos down to smaller resolutions when the original dimensions are unnecessarily large.
- Format Conversion — Convert less-compatible formats such as HEIC, TIFF, and MOV into formats that are more widely supported.
- Configurable Conversion Settings — Customize how Clop handles automatic format conversion and optimization.
- Original File Backup — Keeps original files in a backup location so the unoptimized versions can be accessed when needed.
- Multiple Input Types — Manual optimization can work with images, video files, paths, URLs, and base64-encoded images.
- macOS Shortcuts Integration — Integrate Clop’s optimization functions into custom macOS Shortcuts workflows.
- Floating Thumbnails — Optimized screen recordings can appear as floating thumbnails that can be dragged directly into other applications.
- Free and Pro Editions — Clop provides a free feature set, while the Pro edition adds additional functionality beyond the permanently free features.
System Requirements
- Operating System: The current Clop project supports modern macOS versions; the developer should be consulted for the exact minimum version of a particular release.
- Processor: Intel or Apple Silicon Mac, depending on the release and enabled features.
- RAM: No specific minimum RAM requirement is published by the developer.
- Storage: No specific minimum storage requirement is published. Additional free space is required for temporary files, optimized media, and backups.
- Display/Resolution: No specific minimum display resolution is published.
- Apple Silicon Support: Yes. Clop can take advantage of Apple’s dedicated Media Engine on Apple Silicon Macs for video encoding.
- Intel Mac Support: Supported by applicable releases, although some Apple Silicon-specific hardware acceleration features are not available on Intel Macs.
- Internet Connection: Not required for the core local optimization functions. Internet access may be required for downloading updates or using online sharing features.
- Additional Requirements: macOS Shortcuts integration requires Apple’s Shortcuts application. Some advanced functionality may be limited to the Pro edition.
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