How is ThumbPress different from Smush / Imagify / ShortPixel?

ThumbPress is a complete image management plugin – not just a compression tool.

Smush, Imagify, and ShortPixel are excellent at image compression, and that’s mainly what they do. ThumbPress includes compression too, but it also handles a much wider set of image-related tasks on your WordPress site:

• Disable unnecessary thumbnail sizes that bloat your media library
• Regenerate existing thumbnails after a theme or layout change
• Detect and delete unused images
• Detect and handle oversized images
• Find and remove duplicate images
• Replace any image with a new version without breaking links
• Edit images directly inside WordPress
• Convert images to WebP and AVIF
• Set custom social media share thumbnails
• Cap the maximum image upload size

If all you need is image compression, any of those three plugins will work. If you want one plugin to fully manage every image on your WordPress site – ThumbPress is the way to go.