PortableApps.com AppCompactor

PortableApps.com AppCompactor: Free App Compression Utility

PortableApps.com AppCompactor is a free utility that optimizes portable apps by compressing components inside the app folders. It reduces app file size without losing functionality.

What is PortableApps.com AppCompactor?

PortableApps.com AppCompactor is a free portable app for Windows that allows you to optimize and compress many portable apps, reducing their overall file size. It works by analyzing the components inside a portable app's folder and intelligently compressing files that are commonly oversized such as PNG images, audio files, HTML/JavaScript code files and more.

The compression methods balance file size savings with retaining full app functionality. For example, PNG images are losslessly recompressed to reduce redundant metadata/chunks. Audio files are transcoded to more efficient Opus codec with no noticeable quality loss. Text-based files have whitespace and comments removed.

Overall, AppCompactor can shrink many portable apps by 20-60% without any negative impact, allowing you to save substantial disk space or download optimized app packages faster. It also features automatic updating of apps after compression along with backup of originals in case you want to revert. The utility is portable itself and includes various options to customize the optimization process.

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