Borofish vs VidSquash
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Borofish
This app helps you remove hidden metadata from your photos and videos before sharing. It also offers tools to organize your photo albums, delete unwanted content, and clear out empty albums, all while keeping your originals safe.
- Remove location, device, time, and capture data
- Clean photos and videos in bulk
- Organize and delete albums with custom options
- Delete empty albums
- View photo metadata
- Private by design, no tracking
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Every photo you take carries more than you can see: where it was taken, which phone took it, when, and a trail of hidden data. Borofish helps you remove it before you share, and keeps your albums tidy while you're at it. STRIP — REMOVE HIDDEN INFO • Clean one photo or many at once, including videos • Choose exactly what to remove: Location, Device, Time, Capture settings, Description (IPTC, copyright, author) • Hidden data such as XMP, MakerNote and embedded thumbnails is always removed • Works with HEIC, JPEG, PNG and more; formats that can't be rewritten are saved as JPEG • Orientation and color profile are kept, so your photo looks exactly the same • Videos are exported without re-encoding whenever possible • The clean copy gets a new random file name, so the original name doesn't leak • Your originals are never touched THE BOROFISH ALBUM Clean copies land in a dedicated "Borofish" album, ready to share. Compare any copy with its original, and when you're done, Dump the whole album with a long press. ALBUMS — DELETE THE WAY YOU WANT Browse all your albums in a grid. See at a glance which ones contain photos with GPS data. When you delete an album, choose: • Delete the album only (your photos stay) • Delete the album and the photos that exist only in it • Delete the album and all of its photos Borofish warns you when a photo also lives in another album, and every photo you delete goes to Recently Deleted, where you can recover it for 30 days. SWEEP — CLEAR EMPTY ALBUMS Find every empty album in your library and sweep them away in one go. Uncheck any you want to keep. SEE WHAT YOUR PHOTOS REVEAL Tap any photo to see its full metadata. The home screen shows how many photos you have and where your most recent ones were taken, a quick reminder of what you might be sharing. DESIGNED FOR IPHONE AND IPAD A bold new dark design with smooth animations: clean photos fly into the Borofish album, and empty albums get swept off the screen. On iPad, a sidebar keeps everything one tap away. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No tracking. Metadata is removed right on your device, and your photos are never uploaded.
VidSquash
Easily compress videos for sharing on various platforms like Discord, WhatsApp, and Instagram. This app offers destination-specific optimization, background processing, and preserves video quality while reducing file size. It also helps free up device storage by compressing large video files.
- Compress videos for Discord, WhatsApp, iMessage, Email, Instagram
- Destination-specific optimization
- True background processing with Live Activity
- Sharp output at small sizes with CRF quality targeting
- Free up iPhone storage with Library Cleaner
- Import from Photos, Files app, and Share Sheet
- 100% on-device processing for privacy
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VidSquash is the fastest way to free up storage on your iPhone - without deleting a single photo or video. Your video library is quietly hoarding space. A few 4K clips, some screen recordings, that long birthday video, and suddenly you're out of storage and paying for more iCloud. VidSquash fixes that. FREE UP 10-50 GB IN ONE TAP Library Cleaner scans your photo library, shows exactly how much space you can reclaim, and batch-compresses your biggest videos in the background. Your memories stay - they just take up a fraction of the room. Most iPhones recover 10-50 GB. - Scan: see your biggest videos and the total space you can free - One tap: compress them all, running in the background - Keep everything: compressed copies replace the originals, nothing is lost - HDR preserved: Dolby Vision and HDR video keep their original look STILL THE BEST WAY TO SEND VIDEOS Got a clip that's "too large" to send? VidSquash shrinks it to fit wherever it's going: - Discord, WhatsApp, iMessage, Email, Instagram: the right size, automatically - No blurry output: CRF quality targeting, the approach pro encoders use - On-device: nothing is ever uploaded TRUE BACKGROUND PROCESSING Lock your phone, switch apps, pocket it - VidSquash keeps working and tells you the moment it's done, with live progress on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. PRIVACY FIRST 100% on-device using Apple's own video engine. No servers, no account, no upload, no tracking, no third-party SDKs. Your videos never leave your phone. SIMPLE, HONEST PRICING Free to try. Pro is a one-time purchase (no subscription) that unlocks unlimited cleanups and compressions. Free and Pro produce identical quality. Reclaim your storage. Keep your memories.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: VidSquash at Free against Borofish's $0.99. Borofish's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
VidSquash is free to download; Borofish costs $0.99 up front. VidSquash sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Borofish asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Borofish against 5.0 for VidSquash. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Borofish | VidSquash |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bin Hua | Drizzling Bytes LLC |
Customer experience
Borofish
VidSquash
In-app purchases
Borofish
No in-app purchases
VidSquash
- Unlimited Compressions$4.99
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