Other cleaners make you swipe through thousands of photos or wait on loading bars. Compresso combines a fast monthly swipe cleaner with a non-stop background compressor: swipe left to delete clutter, right to keep, or tap Compress to shrink 4K videos (~85%) and Live Photos (~75%) in the background while you immediately keep swiping.
Free to try on iOS 17+ · Background compression queue · Works offline
Swipe right to keep, left to delete, or tap Compress — zero waiting, keep swiping immediately
Delete-only cleaners force you to spend 45+ minutes agonizing over which memories to erase, while single-file compressors trap you on loading screens. Compresso combines 3-way swipe cleaning with an asynchronous background compression queue so you finish in minutes.
| Capability | Compresso (2-in-1 iOS) | Delete-Only Cleaners | Single-File / Cloud Compressors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to free 5 GB of storage | ✓ ~2 minutes (tap Compress on 5–6 videos + swipe) | ✕ 45+ minutes (must delete 1,500+ photos) | ✕ 30+ minutes waiting on progress bars per file |
| Background compression queue | ✓ Asynchronous background queue (0s waiting between swipes) | ✕ N/A (cannot compress) | ✕ Blocking spinner — must wait for each video to finish |
| How it reclaims iPhone storage | 2-in-1: Shrinks files 70–85% + deletes unwanted takes | Deletes your photos & videos only | Manual one-by-one file compression |
| 4K 60fps HDR video compression | ✓ ~85% smaller (1.02 GB → 150 MB) via Apple HEVC | ✕ Cannot compress (delete only) | ⚠ Often strips 60fps, HDR or audio quality |
| True Live Photo compression | ✓ ~75% smaller (keeps still + 3s motion clip) | ✕ Converts to flat still photo or deletes | ✕ Not supported |
| Month-by-month 3-way swipe triage | ✓ Keep / Background Compress / Delete per item | ⚠ Binary Keep / Delete only | ✕ None |
| Privacy & offline support | ✓ 100% On-Device (works in Airplane Mode) | Varies by vendor | ✕ Often uploads camera roll to remote servers |
Delete-only cleaners force you to agonize over hundreds of photos, and standalone compressors make you wait on loading bars. Compresso combines both into one non-stop flow.
Don’t waste time wondering whether to delete a great video just because it takes 1 GB. Swipe left on blurry junk, right on favorites, or tap Compress to keep the memory at 15% of its size.
Never stare at an encoding spinner. Tapping Compress sends 4K videos (−85%) and Live Photos (−75%) to an asynchronous hardware queue while the next card appears immediately.
Review your total gigabytes freed from both deletions and background compressions in one summary sheet. Originals move safely to iOS Recently Deleted for 30 days.
Your camera roll is private. Compresso runs entirely on the Apple Neural Engine and Media Engine inside your iPhone.
VideoToolbox Constant-Quality HEVCUses native Apple VideoToolbox hardware blocks to transcode bloated bitrates into high-efficiency HEVC while preserving frame rate and color primaries (P3_D65, BT.2020, ITU_R_709_2).
Laplacian Spatial Entropy GuardEvaluates visual texture complexity before writing. If a file is already tightly compressed and re-encoding wouldn’t save meaningful space, Compresso leaves your original untouched.
HDR Gain Map & Live Photo PairingReconstructs multi-component Live Photos (still + motion track) and preserves EXIF creation dates, GPS coordinates, and album memberships so your timeline order never breaks.
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Because Compresso is a 2-in-1 Swipe Cleaner and Background Compressor. In a delete-only cleaner, freeing 1.5 GB requires swiping through and deleting ~500 photos (3 MB each). In Compresso, you swipe left on obvious trash and tap Compress on just two heavy 4K videos to reclaim 1.5 GB in seconds. Plus, compression runs asynchronously in a background hardware queue so the next card appears immediately with zero waiting.
No. When you tap Compress on a 4K video or Live Photo, Compresso drops it into an asynchronous background hardware queue and immediately advances to the next photo or video. You never stare at a blocking encoding spinner.
Instead of deleting memories, Compresso uses Apple’s hardware VideoToolbox HEVC and ImageIO encoders to shrink existing 4K/1080p videos by ~85% (for example, turning a 1.02 GB clip into 150 MB), Live Photos by ~75%, and uncompressed photos by 11–70% directly on your iPhone. On a typical 128 GB iPhone, compressing heavy videos and Live Photos reclaims 20 to 50 GB without losing a single memory.
Never. 100% of analysis and background compression runs locally on your iPhone’s Apple Silicon Media Engine. No photo or video ever leaves your iPhone, and the app works completely offline in Airplane Mode. Only your swipe decisions (keep / compress / delete per month) can sync, through your own private iCloud.
Yes. Compresso copies the original EXIF creation timestamp, GPS location coordinates, Favorite heart status, and custom album memberships onto the newly compressed file so your chronological camera roll order stays identical.
Shrink your heaviest videos by 85% in two minutes — 100% on your device.