u/HomeLost2024

Lately I kept running into this weird friction on macOS.

I just wanted to quickly convert stuff — like an image to PNG, a video to GIF, or extract audio — but every time it turned into:
open some random site → upload → wait → download → ads everywhere

Also started thinking… I’m literally uploading my files to random servers just to convert them. Not a big deal for memes maybe, but for anything personal/work-related it feels sketchy.

Felt unnecessarily slow and not that safe for something that should be instant.

So I ended up building a small tool for myself called QuickConvert.

It basically adds a "QuickConvert" option to Finder right-click menu, so you can just:
right click file → Convert → done

No app to open, no cloud, everything runs locally.

Curious if this is just a “me problem” or if others would actually use something like this?

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/tr/app/quickconvert-file-converter/id6766096889?l=tr&mt=12

Lately I kept running into this weird friction on macOS.

I just wanted to quickly convert stuff — like an image to PNG, a video to GIF, or extract audio — but every time it turned into:
open some random site → upload → wait → download → ads everywhere

Also started thinking… I’m literally uploading my files to random servers just to convert them. Not a big deal for memes maybe, but for anything personal/work-related it feels sketchy.

Felt unnecessarily slow and not that safe for something that should be instant.

So I ended up building a small tool for myself called QuickConvert.

It basically adds a "QuickConvert" option to Finder right-click menu, so you can just:
right click file → Convert → done

No app to open, no cloud, everything runs locally.

Curious if this is just a “me problem” or if others would actually use something like this?
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/tr/app/quickconvert-file-converter/id6766096889?l=tr&mt=12

Lately I kept running into this weird friction on macOS.

I just wanted to quickly convert stuff — like an image to PNG, a video to GIF, or extract audio — but every time it turned into:
open some random site → upload → wait → download → ads everywhere

Also started thinking… I’m literally uploading my files to random servers just to convert them. Not a big deal for memes maybe, but for anything personal/work-related it feels sketchy.

Felt unnecessarily slow and not that safe for something that should be instant.

So I ended up building a small tool for myself called QuickConvert.

It basically adds a "QuickConvert" option to Finder right-click menu, so you can just:
right click file → Convert → done

No app to open, no cloud, everything runs locally.

Curious if this is just a “me problem” or if others would actually use something like this?
App Store: QuickConvert

Lately I kept running into this weird friction on macOS.

I just wanted to quickly convert stuff — like an image to PNG, a video to GIF, or extract audio — but every time it turned into:
open some random site → upload → wait → download → ads everywhere

Also started thinking… I’m literally uploading my files to random servers just to convert them. Not a big deal for memes maybe, but for anything personal/work-related it feels sketchy.

Felt unnecessarily slow and not that safe for something that should be instant.

So I ended up building a small tool for myself called QuickConvert.

It basically adds a "QuickConvert" option to Finder right-click menu, so you can just:
right click file → Convert → done

No app to open, no cloud, everything runs locally.

Curious if this is just a “me problem” or if others would actually use something like this?