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Oxipng

Multithreaded lossless PNG and APNG compression optimizer, usable as a command-line tool or a Rust library.

Oxipng compresses PNG and APNG files without loss. It is a multithreaded optimizer written in Rust, and it runs as a command-line tool. Rust projects can also use it as a library, documented on docs.rs. It is installed with cargo install oxipng, from a Docker image, or from the Windows download on the GitHub releases page. Joshua Holmer holds the copyright on the MIT-licensed code.

Identity

Status
Active
Maintainer
Joshua Holmer3
First release
20164

Rendering and deploy

Runs as
Dev only2
Install with
cargo install oxipng2

Releases

Current major version
104
Last release
2026-09-024

Adoption

GitHub stars
4,3061
Contributors
515

Why these figures do not compare

Sources

  1. 2026-10-28: links, Written in, License, GitHub stars
    api.github.com/repos/oxipng/oxipng
  2. 2026-10-28: links, Categories, Runs as, Install with
    github.com/oxipng/oxipng/blob/master/README.md
  3. 2026-10-28: Maintainer, License
    raw.githubusercontent.com/oxipng/oxipng/master/LICENSE
  4. 2026-10-28: First release, Current major version, Last release
    api.github.com/repos/oxipng/oxipng/releases
  5. 2026-10-28: Contributors
    api.github.com/repos/oxipng/oxipng/contributors

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