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Reduce by Flawless App β Compress huge Sketch files in an instant
Elegant macOS app to compress your heavy Sketch files to a light one. Keep things small even with 1K UI elements in your designs.
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@jkeussen Hello, Joakim!
Thank you so much for your feedback! π
Sure, we know about Abstract (just a fantastic tool). We already asked them about some possible integrations, and unfortunately, they don't have any public API to use to third-party tools.
But you can still use Reduce app and optimise your sketch files. Because at the end Abstract works with files as well, so if you optimise this file you would just see all the changes you've made in Abstract and it should work fine.
This can potentially save a lot of headache for big files that have a ton of super high resolution bitmaps. It's also very useful for teams and developers who don't want these giant files on their hard drives. With tools like Abstract that make sure that big changes like these are versioned, I think it doesn't hurt to try the optimization and apply where it is needed.
As designers, we should always be mindful of the file sizes and optimization of our assets. This is good reminder for it.
Great job to the team for being transparent about it!
@mengto Hi, Meng!
Thank you so much for your feedback! π
Reduce really could play super well with tools like Abstract. Actually we asked guys from Abstract about some open API for third-party apps and, unfortunately, they don't have any at least for now.
Also, regarding optimisation:
The biggest source of redundant elements in Sketch file is really an end user π
People tend to add some elements, make them hidden for example and forget about it. At the end, this is affecting file size. And it's totally fine, we're are human beings after all.
But it'd be really cool to have something which can automate this process and keep Sketch files organized and tidy automatically.
Hopefully, Reduce would be the first step to it π
@lisadziuba
Nice, I do hate those HUMONGOUS sketch files sitting on my hard drive..
Hello, folks! π
Itβs Ahmed here, founder of Flawless App.
Iβm so glad to share with you our little tool to optimise Sketch files size β Reduce app. π
Have you ever experienced slow Sketch performance because of huge Sketch file you're using? π€
At Flawless App we have really big Sketch files and this performance problem becomes a real bummer to our productivity.
That's why we decided to create a little tool which will optimise our Sketch files.
You can not just optimise images, but also automatically remove hidden layers from your Sketch files which is also affecting file size.
We'll add more optimisation there soon.
Iβd really appreciate any thoughts or feedback you have.
(No pixels were harmed during Sketch file optimisation)
Congrats on the launch @lisadzuiba @geek_1001 !
Great to see how your product is evolving, and now new products coming :)
Keep building πͺ πͺ πͺ
@lisadzuiba @aleks_muse Thank you so much, Aleksandra!
We've made this tool for Flawless App internal use. But we decided to make it public.
We have a really huge design files and it's affecting Sketch performance so we wanted to fix it.
Just tried. Decreased the size 3 time more! It worths to be added to a workflow. Thanks for a great job guys!
Awesome app ππ½
Question:
How is this different from the built-in "Size Reducer" in Sketch?
@sambrucejoseph Hello, Sambruce!
Thanks for your questions!
Besides regular image compression, we also have an option to automatically remove all hidden layers from the whole Sketch file.
And over time we'd like to add a couple of more optimisation options like:
- Remove all unused symbols
- Convert repeatable elements across the whole Sketch file into a single symbol (this will save a lot of space actually because instead of multiple copies you'd have only one instance)
@ruslannaz Thank you so much, Ruslan! π
We're on the way to the Mars! π
@graeme_fulton Thanks, Graeme, for all your support! π
I hope this little tool brings a lot of value into your workflow.
Had a Sketch that was 89mbs, downloaded this app and it increased it to 128mbs.
Pros:Cool idea
Cons:Didnt compress my file, weirdly increased it.
Oh, that's probably a bug!
Thank you so much for reporting. And I'm so sorry for that!
If it's possible, could you please share your Sketch file, so we can try to reproduce it?
Hello, @youngfonz
I'm glad to tell you that we finally fixed this issue! π
Please update your application to the latest version 1.3. File compression should work properly.
In case you will have some more issues, feel free to ping us.
Thanks!
Hey, guys the app increased my file size from 89mb to 128mbs lol. Weird right. I kept a screenshot to show. Great idea though. Big Sketch files are definitely a problem.
@youngfonz Thank you so much for the feedback!
I'm so sorry for this inconvenient situation. It seems like a phantom bug. If it's possible could you please share your Sketch file, so we could try to reproduce an issue and fix it.
Also, Reduce App has an auto-update system, so we'll push a fix as soon as possible.
Hello @youngfonz
We've fixed this issue finally. Please update your app to latest version 1.3.
You can do it from the main screen by clicking on the 3 dots in the top right corner.
The compression should work properly now.
I'm sorry for this inconvenient issue!
That's a great problem to solve, guys! We're experiencing the same thing, especially when there are 2 or more designers working on the same file.
@tasteofdalife Thanks! π That's true, even though Sketch files takes much less space then Photoshop files, it's still affecting Sketch performance itself.
We made this little tool for internal use but then decided to publish it as well.
@geek_1001 Btw, small hack that saved me few times is: when you enable 'Show Pixels' mode, the performance gets a little better if the file is way too big.
@andrew_alexeyenko We use lossless image compression algorithm under the hood. So no pixels were harmed during optimisation π
@chrismessina Hello, Chris!
Sure, for the image optimisation, we use standard Deflate and LZ77 compression algorithms. This way we can keep original quality more or less untouched.
We use this tool for a long time with Flawless App designs, so far we didn't notice any quality loss, but our Sketch files became much tidier.
Top Hunter
@geek_1001 nice, thanks for that. Do you apply these compression techniques to all file formats? I'm not clear about what formats Sketch uses internally...?
@chrismessina We apply these compressions to images only.
Potentially we can compress json structural files as well, but unfortunately, Sketch won't recognize them after. Because Sketch doesn't expect to parse the compressed structural file when it opens a file π
Very neat product @lisadziuba! Any idea if you would make it available as command line tool as well? I'd love to see it integrated with our Supernova Studio as well! Love the small tools you are guys creating, helps a ton. Keep up good work!
@lisadziuba @jirka_trecak Thanks for your support! π
We are going to add more optimisation options like: "automatically remove unused symbols from Sketch file" and some other as well. If there will be demand for CLI tool β we'll do it.
@lisadziuba @geek_1001 You can definitely count on us at least promoting it, possibly even inside the Supernova / our documentation. Everyone loves faster performance across the board and this will definitely deliver :)
I am not able to save the compressed file..When i click on save file button nothing happens..can you please let me know why ?
@nazarpanchyshyn Thanks, Nazar! I hope it will be useful for your team as well π
@robbdiazz Thank you so much, Rob!
I hope it will bring a lot of value into your workflow.
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