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Curtail

Curtail is an image conversion program, available on Linux.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Curtail is an image conversion program, available on Linux.

File formats mentioned: SVG, PNG, JPEG and WEBP.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Curtail (previously ImCompressor) is an useful image compressor, supporting PNG, JPEG, WebP and SVG file types.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Curtail is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Optimize your images with Curtail, a useful image compressor that supports PNG, JPEG, WebP and SVG file types. It supports both lossless and lossy compression modes with an option to whether keep or not metadata of images.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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