🍊 Squash 4 Beta 6 Now Available

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Hey Squashers,

This latest beta of Squash 4 has a tonne of refinements and new features that add extra polish to the app. We have a few more loose ends to tidy up and polish, but I think we’re really, really close to declaring Squash 4 ready for prime time.

Thanks for all the feedback so far, I hope you like the app Squash has become :folded_hands:

Squash 4 Beta 6
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Please take beta 6 for a spin, and let us know if you hit any issue or are still missing any must have features. We’re all ears :ear:

What’s New in 4.0 Beta 6?

  • Added localisations for German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese.
  • Improved support for Apple Shortcuts.
  • Add an optional full-size barcode search for higher accuracy
  • Ensure colour-accurate sRGB exports with straight-alpha across supported formats
  • Fixed incorrect alpha channel handling in JPEG XL images
  • Preserve EXIF and colour metadata when exporting to JPEG XL and PNG
  • Safely replace existing export files and reuse outputs in watched folders to avoid duplicates
  • Cache export dimensions and settings to speed up repeated exports
  • Animate AI-renamed filenames with a subtle shimmer for better visibility
  • Added a persisted daily free export allowance with an improved upgrade flow (for unlicensed users)
  • Added optional grind view for thumbnails
  • Image thumbnails now have filters applied
  • List and thumbnail view options added in Filters
  • Added support for favouriting filters
  • Before and after view now shows pixel dimensions
  • Numerous other bug fixes and improvements!

Get the Squash 6 Beta

Squash requires macOS Sonoma 14.6 or later, on Intel or Apple Silicon Macs.
The AI filename descriptions requires macOS 27 or later, on an Apple Intelligence-compatible Apple Silicon Mac.

:backhand_index_pointing_right: Download Squash 4 Beta 6

We’d love your feedback!

We want to hear your feedback, what can we add to Squash 4 to make it even more of an indispensable part of your workflow? Let us know, we’re all ears :slight_smile:

Cheers!

P.S. Did you know that Squash has been in-development and supported for over 10 years, not bad for a humble little compression app!

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It’s like you read my mind, I was going to ask if you could put the deminsions of the squashed image in the prevew window below the squashed file size, so when I’m resizing I know where I’m at on deminsions. BAM, there it is…lol

I can’t find the option for the Grind View on Thumbnails, where can I enable that?

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It’s very much improved. I was wondering if there is a possebility not only to remove the metadata but also to alter the metadata.

Thank you

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Haha, I found myself wanting the exact same thing, so in it goes :wink:

It’s a little hidden at the moment, but it’s available from the View menu.

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What kind of metadata would you want to support? Would this be so you can apply an author/copyright to an entire batch for example?

Let me know how you plan to use this and hopefully we’ll be able to add support.

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Weird, I’m not seeing that option.

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Okay, I may have got a little ahead of myself, that’ll be in the next build! I’ll also fix that about window in dark mode!

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This just keeps getting better and better. Super impressed with where you are taking Squash. IT has now become an absolute essential part of my workflow.

I’m also happy to report that I was able to complete the in-app update.