Compressing iPhone Videos & Photos: What’s Actually Worth Using?
Alright, so I’m just another dude with a classic phone storage crisis. Spotify won’t let me download new playlists, and every other day I get the “Storage Almost Full” slap from iOS. Tried everything short of deleting my cat photos (never happening) until I ran into this absolute gem: Clever Cleaner app for the iPhone.
My Unfiltered Experience
You know those apps that pretend to be free, but as soon as you try to use literally any feature, you get a pop-up asking for $7.99 a month? Yeah, I was fully expecting that. Shockingly, this one isn’t like that. Not a single ad, not a single paywall—everyfeature unlocked, right out of the gate. I double-checked because I can’t believe it either.
The Good Stuff (Seriously, Where’s the Catch?)
- Compression is fast: Videos and Live Photos get shrunk down in size with maybe 2 taps and almost zero wait (think microwave popcorn fast, not “I’ll just check Twitter while it loads”).
- Trims down video size by a surprising amount but without turning everything into a pixelated potato.
- Finds duplicates like some kind of AI-powered bloodhound. Did I accidentally take 12 identical pics? Yes. Did it detect and help me nuke 11 of them? Also yes.
- Free. Free-free. Like, “no suspicious subscriptions hiding in the settings menu” free.
Image Proof 'Cause I Know No One Believes Apps Are Free Anymore
Why Am I Even Posting About a Cleaner? (Mini Rant)
99% of cleanup apps on iOS are the digital equivalent of those fake “virus detected!” ads from 2004. Full of ads, paywalls, or sketchy permissions. This one isn’t, which is honestly kind of wild. Who even makes truly free apps anymore? Either the developer lost a bet or is just flexing on the rest of the market.
TL;DR
If you want to compress videos and pictures without dealing with constant nagging for your credit card info, just check out Clever Cleaner. It’s cleaned up gigs of dead weight from my camera roll, saved my phone from certain doom, and did it for—again—free.
You’re welcome, fellow hoarders.