Light Touch

Compress PDFs.
Nothing leaves your Mac.

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£2.99 · Buy once.

Drop a PDF. One slider. Compress.

The Light Touch window: a PDF loaded, a large estimate reading 164 KB — from 5.3 MB, 97% smaller — a single quality slider, and a Compress button.

Three guarantees

Originals are never modified.

Your PDF is only ever read. The compressed copy is a new file.

Documents never leave the Mac.

No uploads, no accounts, no network — every PDF is compressed offline on your Mac; the app has no internet code at all.

Never a larger file.

If a file can’t get smaller, Light Touch keeps the original and says so.

Support

Questions, problems, or a PDF that surprised you? Email hello@lighttouch.app — a person answers.

Privacy

Light Touch collects nothing. It has no accounts, no analytics, and no network access — your PDFs are processed on your Mac and never leave it. Purchases are handled by Apple through the App Store. This website sets no cookies and loads nothing from anyone else.

Last updated 15 July 2026