imagecompressor.cloud vs. TinyPNG — Which Should You Use?
TinyPNG is one of the best-known image compressors online, and for good reason — it has a simple, fast tool and a genuinely useful developer API. It's also a server-based tool: your image is uploaded to TinyPNG's infrastructure, compressed there, and sent back.
imagecompressor.cloud does the same core job — shrinking JPG, PNG and WebP files — entirely inside your browser tab. Nothing is uploaded. Below is how the two actually differ, not just how they market themselves.
| This site | TinyPNG | |
|---|---|---|
| Where compression happens | In your browser — the file never leaves your device | Uploaded to TinyPNG's servers, processed, then returned |
| Free-tier limits | No batch or file-size cap enforced by this site | TinyPNG's own stated free limit: 20 images per batch, 5MB max per file |
| PDF tools | Compress, merge, split, rotate, remove pages, convert | None — TinyPNG is image-only |
| Formats supported | JPG, PNG, WebP | JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF |
| Beyond the website | Web tool only, for now | Developer API, official WordPress plugin, official Figma plugin, image CDN product |
If you need TinyPNG's developer API or one of its plugins, it's the right tool for that job — this site doesn't have an equivalent yet. But if you're compressing anything you'd rather not hand to a third-party server (ID photos, contracts, private images), or you also need PDF tools without switching sites, that's exactly the gap this site fills.