Pared

Pared is a minimal native macOS app for making a video lighter without exposing compression machinery.

The experience is intentionally pure: open the app, drop a video or choose one file, pick one export style, convert, and finish with a small celebratory moment.

Flow

1. Launch: a clean Liquid Glass window asks for a video.
2. Selection: the whole window is the target; click anywhere or drop a file.
3. Video selected: the video becomes a paused visual stage, never autoplaying.
4. Style browsing: two large export styles float over a darkened mask.
5. Style committed: both styles rise, the chosen one highlights, and only then does Convert appear.
6. Converting: progress is a single quiet line across the video.
7. Done: the app ends with a full-window celebration, one Open action, and a subtle reset affordance.

Export Styles

• Smallest: aggressive compression for the smallest practical file.
• Visually Lossless: keeps perceived quality while reducing size.

Product Rules

• Single window.
• No settings.
• No codec UI.
• No bitrate UI.
• No file metadata panels.
• No estimated-size clutter.
• No autoplay after selection.
• FFmpeg only under the hood.
• Latest macOS Liquid Glass design language.
• Pure SwiftPM package; build and run from shell, no Xcode IDE required.

Build

swift build

Run

./script/build_and_run.sh

Pared expects ffmpeg to be available on PATH.

License

MIT