Kiln – a fast, native batch image processor

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I was tired of outdated UIs and performance of similar tools. Nor did I want to write ImageMagick scripts every time I needed to resize/convert/watermark a folder with a few thousand images.It's a native desktop app built with C++23, Skia for rendering, libvips for image processing and my own cross-platform UI toolkit - no Electron/Qt.It allows building reusable pipelines: resize, convert, compress, watermark, sharpen, blur, rotate, flip, rename, and metadata (EXIF/IPTC/XMP) editing, chained in any order and saved for reuse. Batches run in parallel.Everything is local — no uploads, no signups/account, no telemetry, no network calls during processing.It's currently in public beta (as mentione

Kiln – a fast, native batch image processor is positioned in show hn launch, a segment that rewards a clear, focused offering.

Its current recorded stage is Show HN launch.

Website: kilnimage.app