Lighten
Compress photos and videos on your iPhone
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Lighten - Compress photos and videos on your iPhone

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Get photos and videos ready to send, right on your iPhone. Lighten keeps originals, lets you choose size and format, and offers manual cropping plus a synchronized before/after comparison. Start with free daily exports. A one-time Pro purchase adds batch processing, more saved rules and no daily export limit.

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Hi Product Hunt! I’m the maker of Lighten. A photo or video is already on your phone, but the next app says it is too large. Lighten is built around that small, frustrating moment: choose a file, prepare it on your iPhone, inspect the result, then save or share. You can set a size limit, keep or change the format, and frame a manual crop when you need exact dimensions. Originals stay unchanged. Synchronized comparison helps you check the details before exporting. Media processing happens on the device. It is free to download, with 3 photo exports and 1 video export per day. Pro is a one-time purchase for batch processing, more saved rules and no daily export limit. There is no subscription. Local pricing is shown in the app. The gallery shows a real JPEG result: 1.77 MB to 319.2 KB at the same 1254 × 1254 dimensions. Results vary by file and settings. I’d love feedback on which file-size limits you run into, and how the comparison and export flow work for you. Thanks for taking a look!