The file never leaves your device. No signup, and no upload on the free lane.
Your browser reads the file from your disk and re-encodes it with its own video encoder. The video is not sent to our servers or anyone else's.
You can check it yourself: open your browser's network tab, compress a clip, and look for any request that carries the video. The badge appears only after a job that ran this way. Jobs on the server option below do upload the file, and they never show the badge.
The server lane uploads your file to be encoded, which is why the paid features need an account. The free in-browser lane above never does.
Big file
The browser lane stops at 2 GB. The server lane is a paid-plan feature, used through the REST API. Paid plans take files up to 4 GB.
Exact target size
Hitting a size to the megabyte is a paid-plan feature: Standard ($9/mo) and Heavy ($19/mo). The free tier does not include it.
Batch
Paid plans compress up to 10 files in one batch.
Checking your account...
Most video compressors upload first and ask questions later. This one starts in your browser and only uses a server when you choose to.
Output is MP4 or WebM. HEVC (H.265) files can be read as input but are never produced. Read the privacy policy for what each lane does with a file.