🚀 Introducing BICO v2.0.0 — The Next-Gen Bulk Image Converter & Optimizer (React + Electron) - Desktop App

After months of development, refinement, UI upgrades, and performance tuning, I’m excited to announce the release of BICO v2.0.0 — a powerful and production-ready Bulk Image Converter & Optimizer built with Electron + React, packed with a redesigned interface, parallel processing, Sharp-powered transformations, and a smoother workflow than ever before.

If you're someone who deals with a large volume of images — photographers, designers, frontend devs, digital agencies — BICO is built for you. 🖼⚡

✨ What is BICO?

BICO is a desktop application that lets you:

🔹 Convert images in bulk
🔹 Optimize + compress without quality loss
🔹 Export as ZIP or directly to a folder
🔹 Preview + track estimated output size
🔹 Control every aspect — quality, resizing, metadata & more

Built with Electron + React using Sharp for image processing, it balances power, usability, and speed.

🚀 What's New in v2.0.0?
🖤 UI/UX Fully Redefined

Sleek dark interface

Responsive layout & padded headers

Better tables, more intuitive controls

🖼 File Handling Upgrades

Drag & drop + preview panel

Duplicate detection & status chips

Total & per-file savings estimates

⚙️ Conversion Workflow

Pause/resume/stop conversion

Confirmation modal before start

Clear list & output path launcher

Success modal with total conversions, fails & space saved

⚡ Performance Enhancements

Parallel Sharp processing for faster execution

Estimated output size prediction

Stable memory-safe pipeline

🖥 Platform Improvements

Window opens centered (no forced fullscreen)

Windows builds ship with x64 + arm64

macOS auto-build by arch detection

🧪 Supported Formats

Convert + optimize all major formats:

webp, jpg, png, tiff, jp2, heif, avif, jxl, raw, gif, bmp

Plus advanced toggles:

🔧 Resize
🔧 Rotate / Flip / Flop
🔧 Sharpen / Normalize
🔧 Lossless WebP/AVIF
🔧 Metadata preserve/drop
🔧 MozJPEG + Progressive encoding

🔗 Source Code

Open-source and actively maintained 👇
🔗 GitHub: search BICO bulk image converter or visit my repo if you follow me

Download For Mac or Windows from here
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