Squivo: Compress PDF & Merge

Every upload form has a size limit, and your PDF is always just over it. The visa portal wants 5 MB. The job application wants 2 MB. Gmail bounces at 25 MB.

Squivo compresses your PDF to the size you actually need. Pick a target — or type your own — and it finds the highest quality that fits under the limit, right on your Mac. Drop the file, read the result: "12.4 MB → 4.1 MB."

COMPRESS TO A TARGET, NOT INTO THE DARK
Other tools give you a quality slider and let you guess. Squivo works backwards from the limit you're facing: 25 MB for email, 10 MB for upload forms, 5 MB for government portals, 2 MB for job applications, or any custom size.

TEXT STAYS SHARP. THAT'S STRUCTURAL, NOT A PROMISE.
Squivo recompresses the images inside your PDF and leaves the text layer untouched — your words are never rasterized, never blurred, still selectable. And scanned documents never get pushed below readable resolution: if your target would turn the file into fuzzy garbage, Squivo tells you the smallest readable size instead of quietly ruining it. We would rather give you an honest number than a broken file.

MERGE, SPLIT, REORDER
Combine PDFs by dragging them into the order you want. Pull out just the pages you need, delete the ones you don't, rearrange with drag and drop — everything saved as a new file. Squivo never modifies your originals.

YOUR DOCUMENTS NEVER LEAVE YOUR MAC
People upload contracts, payslips and ID scans to random compression websites every day. Squivo has no network access at all — there is no code in it that could send your files anywhere. No cloud, no account, no analytics, no sign-in. Check Activity Monitor if you like.

BATCH THE WHOLE FOLDER
Drop twenty PDFs and compress them all to the same target in one run, each reported individually.

PAY ONCE. THAT'S THE WHOLE PRICING PAGE.
Free, forever: 5 tasks a day, at full quality — no watermarks, nothing held hostage. If you handle PDFs daily, one $9.99 purchase unlocks unlimited tasks, permanently. No subscription, no weekly billing, no trial that quietly renews.

REQUIREMENTS
macOS 13 or later. Apple silicon and Intel.

From the developer of Dropix. Built by one person who got tired of "file exceeds maximum size."