Video conversion and compression are faster, especially on powerful Macs with lots of cores. Picmal now runs a few video encodes side by side instead of starving them all, gives each one a proper share of the CPU, and AV1 output is 20–40× quicker. Watched-folder and clipboard jobs run quietly in the background so they don’t slow down whatever you’re doing.

The Finder right-click Convert and Compress options now run reliably even when Picmal is closed. They process quietly in the background without pulling focus from Finder, with a notification showing what Picmal is working on and the progress as it goes (so a long file doesn’t look stuck), honour your “Save to subfolder” setting, and let you know when a selection has nothing Picmal can convert instead of just flashing open and closing. The Services menu items are now grouped together as “Picmal — Add Files”, “Picmal — Convert” and “Picmal — Compress”.