Large and animated WebPs convert and compress much faster again. They no longer fail with an out-of-memory error or stall for minutes — a single big file now uses all your CPU cores and gets the memory it needs, while batches still run many files side by side.

Lots of new image formats you can convert to: HDR (Radiance), DPX and Cineon (film), FITS (astronomy), Photoshop Large (PSB), Pyramid TIFF, PAM, PFM, PHM, MIFF, VIPS, AVS, multi-page PCX (DCX), MATLAB (MAT), VICAR, Animated PNG (APNG), MNG, JNG, Farbfeld, Sun Raster, Palm Pixmap and Database, Wireless Bitmap (WBMP), Group 3 FAX, Sixel, Khoros VIFF and WordPerfect Graphics (WPG).

You can now open many more camera RAW files: Olympus (ORF), Panasonic (RW2), Pentax (PEF), Samsung (SRW), newer Canon (CR3, CRW), Hasselblad (3FR, FFF), Phase One (IIQ), Sigma (X3F), Leica (RWL), Sony (SR2, SRF), Kodak (DCR, KDC, K25), Epson (ERF), Mamiya (MEF), Minolta (MRW, MDC) and Nikon (NRW) — with your camera metadata kept. GIMP (XCF), OpenRaster (ORA), DICOM, Kodak Photo CD and Ultra HDR files open too.

The output format picker is now grouped (Common, Raster, RAW, Scientific, Legacy) and searchable, so the longer list stays easy to navigate. All the new formats are available in the Shortcuts app as well.

The Finder right-click “Convert with Picmal” and “Compress with Picmal” options now run the conversion or compression straight away, instead of just adding the files to the window. A new “Add to Picmal” option keeps the old behaviour for when you just want to drop files in without processing them.