Guides
How to do it on a Mac
Step-by-step guides for everyday file jobs. Each one starts with what your Mac can already do, then shows where Ricly helps, with what we measured.
How to compress a PDF on a Mac
Preview’s Reduce File Size, a right-click Shortcut, and Ricly: what each one does to your file, and the sizes we measured.
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How to convert WAV to MP3 on a Mac
The Music app, the Terminal and Ricly: WAV, AIFF or FLAC, where the MP3 ends up, and converting many files at once.
Read the guide →How to merge PDFs on a Mac
The Finder’s Create PDF, Preview’s thumbnails and Ricly: how each one sets the page order, for two files or for twenty.
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How to convert HEIC to JPG on a Mac
The Finder, Preview, Photos, the Terminal and Ricly: one photo or a whole batch, keeping the date, and how to make your iPhone shoot JPEG.
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How to convert M4A to MP3 on a Mac
The Music app, the Terminal and Ricly: where the MP3 ends up, what happens to tags and artwork, and converting many files at once.
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How to find duplicate files on a Mac
Photos, the Terminal and Ricly: exact copies in any folder and everything inside it, and deleting them safely.
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Mac storage full? What’s taking the space
What System Data is, and what deleting actually frees.
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How to compress images on a Mac
Preview, Photos, the Finder, the Terminal and Ricly: PNG and JPG, fewer pixels or a lighter file at the same size.
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How to resize images on a Mac
Preview, Photos, the Finder, Automator, the Terminal and Ricly: one picture or a whole folder, by pixels, percentage or file size.
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How to convert MOV to MP4 on a Mac
Rename it, iMovie, the Terminal or Ricly: when renaming is enough, and why QuickTime Player won’t do it.
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How to remove a background on a Mac
The Finder, Preview, Photos and Ricly: a transparent PNG, a white JPG or a store-ready square.
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How to send large files from a Mac
Mail Drop, an iCloud Drive link, AirDrop and Ricly: the limits of each, and what the person receiving them needs.
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How to remove metadata from photos on a Mac
Check a photo in Preview, hide the location in Photos, or strip the location, the date and the camera with Ricly.
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How to batch rename files on a Mac
The Finder, Automator, Shortcuts, the Terminal and Ricly: counters, dates, find and replace, and photos by date taken.
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How to combine photos into one on a Mac
Shortcuts, Keynote and Ricly: side by side, in a grid or as a collage, with the spacing and order you choose.
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How to convert images to WebP on a Mac
cwebp in the Terminal or Ricly to make a WebP, and Preview or sips to turn one back into a JPG or a PNG.
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How to extract text from an image on a Mac
Live Text in Preview and Photos, Shortcuts and Ricly: text from images and PDFs, and scans you can search.
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How to make app icons and favicons on a Mac
sips and iconutil for a full .icns, and Ricly for the web, PWA, iOS and macOS sets from one logo.
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How to upscale an image on a Mac
Preview and sips make a picture bigger; Ricly upscales it ×2 or ×4 with a model, on your Mac.
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