Clop

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

Version 3.3.3:

• Aspect ratio and smart crop for pipelines, catching up with what the clop crop command could already docrop(aspectRatio: 16:9) trims to a shape rather than a pixel

size

(4:3, 1:1, 1.91:1 and the like). It crops at the file’s own resolution, so it stacks with a pixel crop.

crop(smartCrop: true) keeps the most interesting part of the frame instead of the centre. Works on any crop.

A file already at the requested

size

or shape is left alone instead of re-encoded.

Dragging files could freeze Clop for 30 seconds or more when macOS was slow to hand over the dragged items

• Converted images in a pipeline could come out many times larger than expected when no optimise step followedCrop, downscale and convert compress to your quality setting on their own. Add optimise and they hand the compression over to it, so the