Pick a video and Minivid shows you exactly what it will weigh — before you commit. One tap and it is done. Your videos never leave your phone.
Most compressors make you wait to find out what you got. Minivid reads your video and shows the number up front, updating live as you change quality, resolution or frame rate.
The number updates as you move the quality slider.
Email caps you at 25 MB. A chat app at 100. Name the limit and Minivid solves for the settings that fit under it — taking the highest resolution that still looks good, rather than crushing the picture.
Compress to send via…
Every app caps video at a different size. Pick Zalo, Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, Gmail, Outlook, Discord, iMessage or email, and Minivid fits the video under that app’s limit — then opens the share sheet.
Send via
Free sends via Zalo and Messenger in 720p. Pro covers every app and any size you name.
Minivid everywhere
Minivid now sits where you already look — the Lock Screen, the Home Screen, Control Center, the Action button and Siri. One tap opens your latest video, ready to shrink.
A ring of free space, or a line with your storage goal. Tap it when space runs low.
Your newest video’s size, length and age on the Home Screen, with a Shrink button.
“Compress Latest Video” opens your newest video in Minivid, one press away.
Say or type “Compress my last video with Minivid”.
Free for everyone. Widgets read free space and your newest video on this iPhone — nothing is uploaded. Lock Screen widgets need iOS 16, the Shrink button iOS 17, the control iOS 18.
Inside the app
Every image below was captured straight from the running app with sample videos and photos. No retouching.
01/ONE SCREEN FOR EVERYTHING
Compress a video, find the heavy ones, clean up photos, take the sound out or erase something from a picture — all from the first screen, with your free space right at the top.
02/SEE IT BEFORE YOU COMMIT
Pick a video and Minivid shows what it will weigh — before a single frame is encoded. Change the preset and the number updates as you go.
03/TRIM FIRST
Drag two handles over a live preview and the estimate follows — a shorter clip is a smaller file. Your original stays whole; only the new copy is shorter.
04/THE ORIGINAL IS NEVER TOUCHED
The compressed copy is saved next to your original — never over it. Save it to Photos, share it anywhere, or watch it before and after.
05/REPLACE THE ORIGINAL
Happy with the result? Replace original saves the small copy to Photos with the original’s date and place, then iOS asks you before the big one is deleted.
06/WHERE YOUR SPACE WENT
Every video on your phone, ranked by size, with the total you could get back. Filter to the ones over a year or two old — the ones you are least likely to miss at full size.
07/PHOTOS, TOO
Near-identical photos are grouped together with the sharpest one marked Best, so clearing a burst is one tap. A second tab collects blurred, dark and blown-out shots.
08/STAY AHEAD OF A FULL PHONE
Pick how much space you want to keep free — 5, 10, 20 or 50 GB — and Minivid tells you whether you are on track and where the space usually goes.
09/ERASE OBJECTS
Brush over a stranger, a sign or a cable and Minivid fills the area in from what is around it — on the phone, not on a server.
10/TAKE THE SOUND OUT
Save a video's soundtrack as its own file — a talk, a song from a concert, a voice note someone filmed. It is copied out untouched, not re-encoded.
11/MORE THAN SHRINKING
Speed a long clip up 4×, 8× or 16×, pick the frame rate, keep or drop the audio, switch to HEVC, and stamp your name on every frame.
12/A PRIVATE VAULT
Move photos and videos into a vault that is encrypted on this phone and opens only with Face ID or your passcode.
What quietly fills a phone is not only heavy video. Minivid finds the rest of it too.
Shrink it to any size, keep it watchable.
Duplicates, blurry and dark shots, found and cleared.
Drop the movement, keep the picture.
Find one by what it says, not when you took it.
Paint over what you want gone. Minivid fills in the rest.
Face ID-locked, hidden from your camera roll.
Select several videos, compress them in one go.
Turn a long clip into a short one, up to 16x.
Your name or logo, on every frame.
Save just the sound, as its own file.
Change size or format, one at a time.
Track what is left right from the Home Screen.
Fit a video under Zalo, WhatsApp or Gmail’s limit, then send it.
Cut a video down to the part you need before compressing.
Swap the big video for the small copy, same date and place.
Lock Screen, Home Screen, Control Center and the Action button.
“Compress my last video” without opening the app.
Opt-in. New large videos and screenshots worth a look.
All of these are free for everyone — no Pro needed.
Keep only the part you need. The size estimate follows as you drag.
Save the small copy to Photos, then delete the big one — iOS asks first.
Compressed videos keep the original’s date and location, so they stay in the right spot in Photos.
Deleted videos sit in Recently Deleted for 30 days. Minivid says so, and opens Photos for you.
Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets, a Control Center control and Siri phrases.
Pick the purpose and let Minivid work out the settings.
Best for messaging
Optimized for social platforms
Smallest reasonable size
Maximum compression
Minimal compression
Minivid uses the same hardware video encoder your camera uses, on your own phone. There is no server to send your video to, no account to create, and it works in airplane mode. No ads, no tracking across apps — just anonymous usage statistics you can turn off in Settings.
Every video is read, compressed and written on device.
No sign-up, no email, no password.
Minivid writes a new file. The original goes only if you choose Replace original and confirm.
Compression needs no connection at all.
The free tier is enough to prove it works before you pay.
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$1.99
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$9.99
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$14.99
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The yearly plan starts with a 7-day free trial. Subscriptions renew until cancelled and can be managed in your App Store account settings.
No. Compression happens entirely on your phone, using the device's own hardware encoder. There is no server that receives your video — turn on airplane mode and compress something to see for yourself.
Not unless you ask. Minivid writes a new file and leaves the original alone. If you tap Replace original on the result screen, the small copy is saved to Photos with the original’s date and place, and iOS asks you to confirm before the big one is deleted.
iOS keeps deleted videos in Recently Deleted for 30 days. Minivid tells you this right after replacing and offers to open Photos — empty Recently Deleted there to get the space back now.
It depends on the video, but 80–95% smaller is typical. Phone footage carries far more bitrate than it needs, so it shrinks hard without a visible difference.
No. Minivid only compresses the video to fit the app you pick, then opens the iOS share sheet. You send it from that app as usual — Minivid never signs in to or connects with any account.
MP4 and MOV in; H.264 or HEVC out. HEVC gives smaller files at the same quality.
Yes, including airplane mode. Only restoring a purchase needs the network.
Open Settings on your iPhone, tap your name, tap Subscriptions, then cancel Minivid Pro. Cancellation is handled by the App Store, not by Minivid.
Free to download — go Pro when you need more. Feedback or a question? Email me any time.