About Cantimplora Studio
Picmal is made by Cantimplora Studio, which is one person: me.
I'm Alberto Gallego. Cantimplora Studio, LLC is the company name on the invoice, and there's nobody behind it but me. I design Picmal, write the code, answer the support email, and make the mistakes.
Picmal started because I was tired of opening a browser every time I needed to convert a handful of files. Upload, wait, download, wait, and hope the site wasn't keeping a copy. My Mac is a fast computer that can do all of that locally in about a second, so it seemed worth building the thing I actually wanted to use.
It converts and compresses images, video, audio and PDFs. It batches hundreds of files at once. It costs $39 one time. That's the whole pitch, and it hasn't needed to change.
What the studio believes
Everything runs on your Mac
No uploads, no accounts, no servers holding your files. Not a marketing angle, it's the architecture. Picmal has nowhere to send your photos even if it wanted to.
Pay once
One price, updates included, no subscription. A tool you use twice a month shouldn't bill you every month.
A real Mac app
Native, not a website in a window. It belongs in Finder, in Quick Actions, in Shortcuts, and it should feel like it came with the machine.
You can write to me
Support goes to my inbox, not a ticket queue. Most feature requests in Picmal came from somebody emailing to ask.
Getting in touch
Bug reports, feature requests, license problems and "does it do this?" all go to support@picmal.app, and they reach me directly. If there's something you've always wished a converter did, I'd genuinely like to hear it. A good number of Picmal's features exist because somebody asked.
Writing about Picmal? The press kit has logos and screenshots. There's also an affiliate program, and student pricing if you're at a university.
The legal details live in the terms and the privacy policy. The short version of the second one: Picmal processes your files on your own Mac, so there's nothing for me to collect.