Shrink a video by quality, or aim it at a target size with quick picks for email, Discord and WhatsApp. The tool warns you before a target would crush the picture.
Your files are processed in your browser, on your own device. Nothing is uploaded to a server.
A video too big for the place it needs to go is a daily problem: WhatsApp refuses it, email bounces it, the upload form rejects it. This compressor gives you two ways to shrink it. Quality mode keeps the picture as good as it can while the size falls where it falls. Target size mode works backwards from a number you choose and aims the file at it.
The quick picks are sized for real limits, checked in October 2026: about 24 MB slips under the 25 MB email attachment ceiling most providers use, about 9 MB fits Discord’s free upload limit of 10 MB, and about 15 MB fits WhatsApp document sharing. In target mode the tool does the arithmetic from your video’s real length, sets aside room for the sound, and warns you before it starts if the target would crush the picture.
1. Drop the video into the box, or click to choose it.
2. Choose Quality for a balanced shrink, or Target size and pick a quick pick or type your own MB.
3. In Quality mode you can also cap the height at 720p or 480p, which is where the biggest savings hide on phone footage.
4. Only need a section? Fill in start and end times and the tool compresses just that stretch. Press Compress the Video and download.
A 1080p frame carries more than twice the pixels of a 720p frame, and pixels are what a video file spends its bytes on. Dropping a screen recording or a talking-head clip to 720p often halves the file while looking the same on a phone screen. Bitrate is the second lever: the tool lowers how much data each second gets, and the warning line tells you when a target pushes that so low the picture will smear.
The engine note: this runs a real encoder inside your browser. The first job downloads about 31 MB of engine files once, your browser caches them, and your video itself never leaves the device.
Compression is a re-encode, so it works at a browser pace: under 200 MB and 10 minutes is the comfortable range, 500 MB is the hard ceiling. Target mode aims honestly but a target is physics, not a promise: a noisy, fast-moving clip needs more data than a still one, and the result line reports whether the target was hit or missed and by how much. A small file can even come out larger if it was already tightly encoded, and the tool says so rather than pretending. For a plain format change instead, use the video converter. The rest of the family is in the video tools collection.
It depends on the source. Phone footage at high bitrates often shrinks 50 to 80 percent in Balanced quality mode. A file that was already exported small may barely move, and the result line tells you the before and after sizes either way.
Some, always: a smaller file holds less picture data. Balanced quality is tuned so most viewers do not notice on a phone or a laptop screen. The 720p cap is the sweet spot for sharing clips.
Pick the Discord quick pick, which aims at about 9 MB to leave headroom, or type 10 in target mode. Most clips land on or under the aim. Very busy footage can land slightly over, and the tool reports the real number.
As checked in October 2026, videos sent inside a chat are limited to about 16 MB and documents to 2 GB, but status and chat shares behave best under 16 MB, which is why the quick pick aims at 15 MB.
It happens when the original was encoded very efficiently, for example an already-optimised WebM. Re-encoding cannot beat a good modern encode at the same settings, and the tool reports it straight instead of hiding it.
No. The work happens in your browser tab. Large files compress at your laptop’s speed, not your internet’s.
Same rules as this one: free, in your browser, with nothing uploaded.
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The classic job. Video in, MP3 out.
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A GIF saved as a small MP4 that plays everywhere.