Alternatives to oxipng
Reduce PNG file sizes with a lossless command-line optimizer. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
oxipng
Reduce PNG file sizes with a lossless command-line optimizer.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as oxipng.
Caesium Image Compressor
Batch compresses JPEG, PNG and WebP images, often cutting file size dramatically with no visible quality loss.
Caesium Image Compressor adds a graphical interface and a browser version, compresses JPEG and WebP as well as PNG, but has no official Linux binary.
ImageOptim
Compresses images on macOS and strips their metadata.
ImageOptim is a macOS-only graphical app that runs several optimisers, keeps the smallest result and strips GPS and EXIF data, instead of a cross-platform command-line tool.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
ImageMagick
A command-line image toolkit that creates, edits, converts and composes images across more than 200 formats.
ExifTool
Reads, writes and edits metadata in almost every image, audio and video format there is, and is the reference tool for the job.
