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
- Mac and Windows
How it works
Pick it up. Flick it. Done.
- Pick up any file on your desktop, in Finder or in File Explorer.
- A ring of options appears around it: formats, compression and more.
- Drop it on one. The new file lands right next to the original.
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.
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.
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.
Download Flick
Free for Mac and Windows. Version 1.3.0.
Flick runs on Mac and Windows computers. Open this page on your computer to download it.
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.
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
- 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. - 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.
- In the installer, click Continue. Leave Open Flick when I log in ticked to have Flick ready every time you start your Mac, then click Install.
Windows
- If your browser says the file
isn't commonly downloaded
, choose Keep. New apps get this until enough people have downloaded them. - Open Flick-Windows-Setup.exe. Windows says
Windows protected your PC
andUnknown publisher
. Click More info, then Run anyway. - Click Install. No administrator password needed. On the last page, leave Open Flick when I sign in ticked to have Flick ready every time you start your PC.
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).
- Mac with Apple silicon
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- Mac with Intel
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- Windows
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Made by one student.
No company behind it, just one student who thinks the tools you use every day should be free and a pleasure to use. If Flick has saved you some time, a coffee helps keep it going.
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