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An image format becomes useful when your tools can open it. In October 2026, JPEG XL received significant browser announcements, making this a good time to explore it with your own images.

Image2JXL is our native macOS app for local JPEG XL conversion. Import images or folders, process files in batches, and export JXL to familiar formats when needed.

A photo can capture the moment you want to share and details you would rather keep private: someone's face, a phone number in a screenshot, or a license plate in the background. FTMask helps you cover those areas on iPhone and iPad, with automatic detection followed by manual review.

Its image detection and masking run on your device. You do not need an account, and FTMask does not upload selected images to the developer's servers. If you send an exported image through the system share sheet, the destination app or service handles that copy.

A familiar mouse can work even better on a Mac when its wheel and extra buttons feel the way you want. Mouse SR brings together smoother wheel scrolling, mouse-button shortcuts, and practical Finder actions in one macOS app.

Mouse SR is designed for discrete wheel input from third-party mice. Trackpads, Magic Mouse, and other continuous scrolling devices pass through unchanged.

Paper documents are often easiest to capture as images. A worksheet, handwritten draft, receipt, form, or class handout can be photographed in seconds, but the result may still need a cleaner crop, better contrast, and a PDF layout that is comfortable to print.

Imgs2PDF provides a simple local workflow for that job. You can crop the page, choose a document filter, and export the result as a PDF without uploading the original image to a server or sending it to an AI service.

Turning paper documents into a PDF is not just a matter of taking a picture. Page edges may be uneven, the camera angle can create perspective distortion, and indoor lighting can leave one side of the page brighter than the other. Multi-page documents also need to be ordered, reviewed, and processed consistently.

Imgs2PDF now adds a Scan Documents entry point on iPhone and iPad, together with document filters for scanned pages and selected images. Scan several pages in one session, let the system help with edge detection and perspective correction, then return to Imgs2PDF to review, organize, and export a PDF. When a document needs to be printed or shared, the new Print preset provides a document-focused starting point.

If you use a regular mouse with iPhone Mirroring on Mac, the mouse wheel can feel different from scrolling a webpage or a Finder window. A single wheel notch may move a list in a noticeable jump, and quick repeated scrolling can feel less predictable.

Mouse SR now supports smooth scrolling in the iPhone Mirroring window. It adjusts how third-party mouse wheel input is delivered to that window, while leaving trackpads, Magic Mouse, and direct touch on the iPhone unchanged.

Want to convert JPEG to JPEG XL losslessly on Mac? Image2JXL gives you a native, local workflow for importing JPEG files or folders, converting them to JPEG XL, and exporting JXL files back to JPEG, PNG, or GIF when compatibility matters.

The important detail is that “lossless” can describe two different JPEG XL workflows. Reversible JPEG recompression can preserve a supported JPEG well enough to reconstruct the original file. Pixel-lossless encoding preserves the decoded pixels, but not necessarily the original JPEG bytes. This guide explains the difference, shows how to use Image2JXL, and includes a command-line method for checking the result.

For product details and supported formats, see the Image2JXL JPEG XL converter for Mac.

You can save iPhone photos as a PDF using the apps already on your phone. For images in Photos, use the Print preview and save the result to Files. If your images are already in Files, look for the Create PDF action.

These methods are useful for sending receipts, sharing photographed notes, or preparing images for a form that requires a PDF. You can convert one photo or combine several into a single document.

If you need to save a few pages from a PDF as a separate file, you can use Preview, the PDF viewer included with macOS. It lets you extract a single page, a continuous range, or selected pages from different parts of a document.

This is useful when you want to share part of a report, separate a form from a larger file, or keep only the pages you need for a particular task. You can do it on your Mac without uploading the document to an online service.

A Mac mouse utility is a small app that changes how a mouse behaves beyond the few controls macOS provides. Depending on the app, that can mean smoother scrolling, a different scroll direction, cursor tuning, button remapping, or mouse-triggered shortcuts.

The important detail is that these utilities do not all do the same job. Mouse SR is a focused Mac mouse utility for one of the most common problems: a third-party mouse wheel that moves in stiff, separate steps instead of the continuous motion you are used to from a trackpad.

Yes, you can get smooth scrolling on a Mac without replacing a perfectly good mouse. The usual problem is not the mouse connection or the page you are reading. It is the difference between the discrete wheel steps sent by a conventional mouse and the continuous motion sent by a trackpad.

Mouse SR is a small macOS utility that turns third-party mouse-wheel steps into smoother, continuous movement. You can adjust the distance, smoothness, acceleration, and direction to match the way you read, browse, code, or work in Finder.

If your Mac mouse scrolling feels stiff, jumpy, or a little behind the smoothness of your trackpad, you are not alone. Many third-party mice work perfectly well on a Mac but still feel uncomfortable when you scroll through a long page.

If you are searching for Mac mouse scrolling not smooth, you may not need to replace your mouse. Mouse SR helps make ordinary third-party mouse scrolling feel more natural, with settings you can adjust to match the way you work.

Security camera motion detection turns a change in a scene into a useful event. Depending on the system, that event can start recording, send a notification, switch on a light, or trigger an alarm.

The difficult part is not detecting any change—it is deciding which changes matter. This guide explains the main detection methods, why false alerts happen, and how to configure a camera so its recordings and notifications remain useful.

Sometimes the useful part of a video is only its audio: an interview, lecture, voice-over, rehearsal, or screen recording. In that situation, a focused video-to-audio app is often quicker than moving the file to a desktop editor or uploading it to a conversion website.

This guide shows how to turn a saved video into an MP3 with 2MP3, clean up the result, and verify the exported file on iPhone, iPad, or Android.

Image conversion should be simple: choose a picture, select a new format, and export it. In practice, the wrong format or compression setting can create a file that is blurry, unexpectedly large, missing transparency, or rejected by the app where you need it.

This guide explains how to choose between JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, and HEIC, then convert and check your images without risking the originals.

If you like your mouse but not the stiff, click-by-click way its wheel scrolls on a Mac, Mouse SR is made for that. It turns a third-party mouse wheel into smooth, continuous scrolling and gives you simple controls to make it feel right.

It also adds a few genuinely useful right-click actions to Finder, so common file tasks take fewer clicks.

For the focused Finder workflow, see Finder right-click tools for Mac.

MoFind 1.1.5 makes full-screen motion event previews easier to close with an improved drag gesture. The update also supports reduced motion for a calmer preview experience.

These changes continue a series of focused improvements to MoFind, an app for finding motion events in long surveillance and monitoring videos on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

2MP3 is a mobile app for turning video files into audio, trimming clips with a visual waveform editor, converting between common audio formats, and managing exported audio files on your device.

It is built for practical video-to-audio workflows on iPhone, iPad, and Android. Processing runs on-device, so your files are not uploaded for conversion.

Image2JXL is a native macOS app for local JPEG XL conversion, with a focus on JPG to JXL workflows. For JPEG input, it supports reversible JPEG transcoding, so a supported JPG can be stored as a JXL file and restored back to JPG later.

It is useful if you want a local tool for batch organization, archive workflows, and testing JPEG XL without uploading files or relying on a cloud converter.

For the complete workflow and its limitations, see Lossless JPEG to JPEG XL on Mac.

MoFind is built for long-video review. It is designed for long, mostly static recordings such as security-camera, doorbell, and trail-cam footage, so you can avoid manually scrubbing frame by frame.

MoFind scans videos on-device offline and turns motion moments into a browsable event list with start time, duration, motion score, and thumbnails.

For a focused workflow, see how to find motion in saved security-camera footage or review trail-camera video for motion.

Image2WebP now preserves EXIF and GPS metadata when converting images to WebP or AVIF — and when converting WebP/AVIF back to JPG or PNG. Your camera data, location info, and copyright tags survive the conversion intact.

Imgs2PDF now includes a powerful PDF compression feature designed to significantly reduce file size while preserving visual quality. This makes it easier to store, share, and upload PDFs.

This guide looks at a practical Image2WebP batch workflow: preparing source images, choosing WebP or AVIF, reviewing output, and keeping conversion local on a Mac.

For product details, pricing, and download options, visit the Image2WebP product page.

Crop images on iPhone, iPad, and Mac with Imgs2PDF. Adjust the crop area before converting, splitting, or exporting images for cleaner documents and better results.

Split one image into multiple parts on iPhone, iPad, and Mac with Imgs2PDF. Use grid presets or custom split lines to cut screenshots, scans, and layouts faster.

Imgs2PDF is a lightweight document utility for iOS and macOS, offering image-to-PDF conversion, PDF-to-image export, PDF merging and splitting, image cropping and splitting, OCR text recognition, and history management. It is well suited for students, teachers, and professionals handling scans, screenshots, receipts, lecture notes, and other everyday files.

Start with a focused task guide for converting images to PDF on iPhone, exporting PDF pages as images, or merging PDF files.