Flick

Flick for Mac and Windows

Convert anything.
Upload nothing.

Pick up any file and a ring of options appears around it. Flick it toward one and it's converted or compressed in seconds, right on your computer.

  • Free
  • No account
  • Works offline
  • Files never leave your computer

Download Flick

Version 0.1.0 · Free

Mac with Apple siliconM1 and newer · 192 MB Mac with IntelMacs from before 2021 · 210 MB WindowsWindows 10 and 11 · 182 MB
Which Mac do I have?

Open the Apple menu and choose About This Mac. If it says Chip: Apple M1 (or M2, M3, M4…), you have Apple silicon. If it says Processor: Intel, choose Intel.

Opening it for the first time? Here's what to click.

How it works

Pick it up.
Flick it. Done.

  1. Pick up any file on your desktop, in Finder or in File Explorer.
  2. A ring of options appears around it: formats, compression and more.
  3. Drop it on one. The new file lands right next to the original.

Private by design

Your files never leave your computer.

Conversion websites make you upload your file to someone else's server (contracts, photos, bank statements) and trust them to delete it. Flick does every conversion on your own computer. Nothing is sent anywhere, so there's nothing to leak.

0 bytes uploaded.
Ever.

Conversion websites

  • Upload your file to a stranger's server
  • Wait for the upload, then the download
  • File-size limits and daily caps
  • Ads, sign-ups and watermarks
  • Only work while you're online

Flick

  • Your file stays on your computer, start to finish
  • Done in seconds, right where the file is
  • Any size, as many files as you like
  • No ads, no account, no watermark
  • Works offline, even on a plane

Effortless

Nothing to open. Nothing to learn.

Flick waits quietly in your menu bar or system tray. There's no window to find and no upload page to fight with. You just drag a file, the way you already do.

  • Works where your files areOn the desktop, in Finder or in File Explorer.
  • Never overwrites anythingEvery new file is saved next to the original.
  • Changed your mind?Let go in the middle of the ring and the file goes back.
  • Make the ring yoursChoose what each direction does in Settings.

Try it

One ring for every kind of file.

Works with JPG, PNG, HEIC, WebP, AVIF, GIF · MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM · MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC · PDF · Word, Markdown, TXT, HTML · Excel, CSV and more.

Installing

Opening Flick for the first time

Flick comes from an independent developer, not through Apple's or Microsoft's paid developer programs. So the first time you open the installer, your computer shows its standard notice for apps it doesn't know yet. That notice doesn't mean anything was found in the file. You confirm it once; updates after that come through Flick, with no notices.

Mac

  1. Open the file you downloaded. Your Mac says Apple could not verify “Flick” is free of malware. That's the wording macOS uses for every app outside Apple's paid program. Click Done.
  2. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway next to the message about Flick. Confirm with your password or Touch ID, then click Open Anyway once more.
  3. In the installer, click Continue, then Install.

Windows

  1. If your browser says the file isn't commonly downloaded, choose Keep. New apps get this until enough people have downloaded them.
  2. Open Flick-Windows-Setup.exe. Windows says Windows protected your PC and Unknown publisher. Click More info, then Run anyway.
  3. Follow the installer. No administrator password needed.

When it's installed, Flick opens by itself and waits in your menu bar (Mac) or system tray (Windows). Pick up a file to try it.

Is it safe? Check your download

Flick never sends your files anywhere. The only thing it asks the internet is whether a new version is out. Nothing else comes bundled with it. To be sure your download is exactly the one published here, compare its SHA-256 fingerprint (on a Mac: shasum -a 256 followed by the file; on Windows: certutil -hashfile followed by the file and SHA256).

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Windows
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