Comparison

How Far Thunder vs Compress

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

How Far Thunder

Features
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Do you hear thunder, but do not know where it is? Want to surprise your friends with supernatural abilities? Bet on it that you can predict the exact distance to the place where the thunderstorm occurs. Is your child afraid of thunder and lightning? Reassure her that the thunder is now far away and play an interesting game together - determine the exact distance to the thunder. You can do all this with one touch! Just press the start button when you see lightning, and the App itself will calculate how many miles or kilometers of bad weather is raging.

About

Compress

Easily reduce video file sizes on your iPhone or iPad. This app also generates SRT caption files using on-device transcription and offers translation into 23 languages, all while keeping your data private.

Highlights
  • Video compression
  • Batch compression (up to 10 videos)
  • Customizable compression settings
  • On-device SRT caption generation
  • Offline transcription
  • SRT translation (23 languages)
  • Privacy-focused
Features
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Compress-san is the easiest way to compress videos on your iPhone or iPad. Just select a video from your photo library, and queue up your video for compression. Select up to 10 videos for compression at once and add them to the queue. In the application settings, you can choose your desired compression settings, compressing video to sizes as low as low quality 480p. Compress-san also will use local on-device transcription models to create caption SRT files for your videos. Create subtitle text files locally and privately, with no audio or video leaving your device for creation of the SRTs. After an SRT is generated, you can also translate it into 23 different languages using local translation services. Compress-san is the simple and private way to cut your video sizes and create SRT subtitle transcription text files.

Screenshots

How Far Thunder4 screens
Compress4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: How Far Thunder at 14.4 against Compress's 18.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
How Far Thunder versus Compress: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHow Far ThunderCompress
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.4 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—7 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS14.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSerhii RymarCameron Banga

In-app purchases

None

How Far Thunder

No in-app purchases

None

Compress

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is How Far Thunder free?
How Far Thunder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Compress free?
Compress is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do How Far Thunder or Compress have ads?
Neither How Far Thunder nor Compress shows ads.

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