Email/blog:

I type tutorial guides for others and often include screenshots with arrows to make it easier for less-technical audiences to follow.

Sometimes, emails grow unwieldy in size because I tend to take screenshots that capture most of the screen and this makes it difficult to send depending on the number of images.

I currently use Shottr to take screenshots because of the scrolling screenshot and currently, Clop monitors my folders and automatically compresses them.

Team communication:

I’m working as a marketing manager, and I frequently use Cleanshot to highlight and annotate design elements to request for adjustments via Microsoft Teams and Notion.

The company’s expanding rapidly, and frankly, our internet and wifi stability is struggling to keep up.

Having Clop helps with the upload speed.

I study online, via Zoom, so my workflow is as follows:

The Zoom presentation window on my main screen. As the lecture starts I use Shottr to set an area to capture on repeat via key bind.

...screenshot goes into the clipboard where Clop does its magic, allowing it a split second later to be pasted into Craft where I can take additional notes.

Since I discovered Clop I've shrunk the size of the notes by A LOT!

It's highly addictive to see the Clop notification with how much the size has shrunk.

I regularly need to post images on a few personal sites, and I needed to reduce the weight of the images to avoid long loading times.

I mainly copy images for the mac-utils.com website, which lists software for Mac

The second site I manage is for a company of archery... where I occasionally need to illustrate my articles.

With Clop, my emails with screenshots don't take up as much space, and my chat messages gets sent faster since it uploads an optimized image with smaller file size. Clop has been a staple for my work ever since I stumbled upon it.

I work in graphic/UI/UX design and take a LOT of screenshots for client approvals daily, and with the screen that I'm using, my screenshots take up space quickly in our chat and email storage.

With Clop, my emails with screenshots don't take up as much space, and my chat messages gets sent faster since it uploads an optimized image with smaller file size.

I often use screen recording and screenshots using MarginNote and Notability for YouTube lecture production.

It's one of my favorite apps, and when I'm making YouTube videos, Margin Notes and Notability [files] are automatically optimized when I take screen recordings and screenshots

I'm satisfied with the good quality and reduced work.

...when I insert an inline image in mail, it takes up the entire screen and makes the email text unreadable.

... with Clop, I just need to click - again. Clop is the most convenient app I've used for this simple task.

I also use it for videos. Many websites have a size limit, but uploading a GIF may result in a less smooth playback.

The quality is still amazing, btw.

I write extensive technical documents with screenshots... I feel that with compressed images the documents are getting snappier.

I also sometimes have to share the screenshots to the team ... a compressed picture helps as the recipients are not always on laptop and may have to access the media on phone.

[Clop] is an excellent little utility which does its job without coming in the way of the work.

I usually use Clop to optimize screenshots I send in beeper.

I have gigabit fiber but for some reason it always takes a while. I dont need full resolution for most things so it saves a lot of storage and time.

Media manipulation:

Working in marketing, we frequently receive media from a boatload of different sources, namely difficult image formats like HEIC and WEBP.

I used to right click and select convert image from the context menu — but Clop is a productivity boost.

My job requires that I use Salesforce Servicecloud to respond to tickets for help.

Unfortunately, Salesforce Servicecloud limits the inline screenshot size to a measly 1MB.

Clop allows me to speed through ticket responses, not having to worry about the size of my screenshot. It’s also right there in my clipboard, ready to paste.

One of my blogging workflows was more complex than it needed to be. What Clop has done is remove the pain of having to use several apps to resize a photo or screenshot to post online.

I simply take the screenshot using the built in tools or Capto, send it to the clipboard and save the resized image where I need it to be.

Clop has saved me many time consuming steps in this workflow process.

I'm a photographer by profession, so I work with large quantities of images every day.

I used to use JpegMini and ImageOptim for this stuff, and the pain in the ass it was to open one of these up, change export locations, yada yada, to get to an adjusted image.

Now it's just a matter of export, copy, paste, and all the optimization is happening in the background before I even get to my cloud folder to paste

And the added controls to keep changing the image are great too.

Clop hits the spot, dude.

Best usecase for me is: scaling down images/GIFs of memes or screenshots to use as Slack custom emojis.

I add a lot of screenshots to my PKM which is synced via iCloud. So going overboard can be pricy and it’s nice to have an auto resize for everything that goes in there.

Also sharing screencasts is a hassle due to big filesizes not being allowed through many platforms.

I previously had a workflow where I take a screenshot for an eBay auction or social media, save it to the Desktop and then I'd open ImageOptim to compress the image and remove the EXIF data (just to be safe).

With GIF or screen recording it was even more cumbersome. I use Cleanshot for this, then used Handbreak to reduce the size. Oftentimes I'd have to re-encode as it was still not small enough.

With Clop I could skip the second step completely and just paste the image in the app. Especially with GIF & video it's a time saver.

Personal Knowledge Management:

I like to take notes with Obsidian on things I've read and include images of flow diagrams, etc. for review down the line so I don't lose context.

Keeping the file size small is great since I don't want my database to grow too large and slow down the program.

I use Clop each day dozens dozens of times.

Clop is now my must have app :)

I discovered v1 last winter, Clop helped me a lot during of blackouts (yes I’m Ukrainian), when we had no electricity I worked a lot on my battery and overloaded cell internet connection, so each MB was a piece of gold.

Company wikipage:

The company [I work on] sells software tools, and use Notion publishing for public documentation.

Showing is better than telling, so we use videos, JPEGs and GIFs a lot.

If I'm not mistaken, Notion uploads media to AWS without compression, so Clop helps with uploading and retrieval.

A 2.7MB image is a pain to upload and to download for team members. It's nice to be able to compress them right in Clop.

Also, the app I use to write my reports struggles with large size photos.

So I always compress the images before embedding them in the document.

I used to use the app ImageOptim to compress large photos.

However, I don't always decide all the photos I want to include in a report at first, I tend to pick and choose as I'm writing.

This is where the Clop app comes in handy, as it compresses photos on demand.