# Jpegli

13 Hacker News commenters recommended Jpegli and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Google's JPEG encoder that improves plain JPEG quality without a new format, matching WebP's quality and size while keeping better compatibility.

## Why people recommend it

- Better JPEG quality without new codec (3 comments): "Jpegli offer enough quality improvement and advantage without introducing an entirely new codec." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49711202)) "the jpegli encoder (from google's jpegxl team) has improved plain jpeg encoding significantly" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048251)) "is a significant improvement" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46037567))
- Impressive, useful results in practice (3 comments): "JPEGLI was also pretty useful" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50125858)) "which was honestly a wonder" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48395184)) "it does an impressive job" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46116449))
- Matches WebP with better compatibility (2 comments): "jpegli pretty much matches it in quality/size while having better compatibility" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45813972)) "Lossy WebP does not make as much sense though since jpegli entered the game." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49692549))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [libjxl](https://hackerapproved.com/p/libjxl.md): 9 recommend
- [jxl-rs](https://hackerapproved.com/p/jxl-rs.md): 8 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Jpegli", https://hackerapproved.com/p/jpegli/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).