Comparison

Stitch It vs Kompressed

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

Head to head
About

Stitch It

Effortlessly combine multiple screenshots into a single long image, either vertically or horizontally. This tool offers redaction features to hide sensitive information before sharing.

Highlights
  • Vertical and horizontal stitching
  • Batch import of screenshots
  • Redaction tools (blur, pixelate, overlay)
  • Cropping functionality
  • Multiple export formats (PNG, JPG, PDF)
  • Siri Shortcuts integration
  • Privacy-focused on-device processing
Features
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Stitch screenshots and photos into one long image—or join them side by side. Create long screenshots from conversations, receipts, instructions, and social posts. Align overlaps, crop precisely, and hide private details before sharing. COMBINE SCREENSHOTS AND PHOTOS Import images from your Photo Library and arrange them in the order you want. Stitch vertically to keep a conversation together, or horizontally for a side-by-side comparison. CROP PRECISELY Choose where each image begins and ends. Align overlapping content and remove repeated sections to make the result easier to read. HIDE PRIVATE DETAILS Cover names, addresses, and other sensitive information with solid-color freehand or straight-line redaction before you share. Image editing is processed on your device. SAVE AND SHARE Export the finished image as PNG or JPG, or save it as a PDF. Share through compatible messaging, email, and other apps. Siri Shortcuts and the share extension offer more ways to start. HOW IT WORKS 1. Import screenshots or photos. 2. Arrange them vertically or horizontally. 3. Align overlaps and crop each image. 4. Hide any private details. 5. Save or share your finished result. FREE AND PRO Stitch It is free to use with a small watermark. Upgrade to Pro for unlimited images per stitch, no watermark on final images, and an ad-free experience. Privacy Policy: https://37.technology/legal/privacy Terms of Service: https://37.technology/legal/terms Support: stitchit@37.technology

About

Kompressed

This app compresses various file types, including photos, videos, and documents, to fit specific data budgets for transmission over low-bandwidth connections. It offers flexible size setting options and ensures data integrity through verification before allowing a compression ratio.

Highlights
  • Byte budget compression
  • Photo, video, voice memo compression
  • Data file compression
  • Multiple size setting methods
  • Binary-search quality encoder
  • Re-encoding for video
  • Presets for specific links
Features
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Kompressed gives you a byte budget instead of a quality slider, then finds the best photo, video, voice memo or data file that fits inside it. For every link that was never meant to carry pictures. WHEN THE CONNECTION IS THE PROBLEM Hotel and campground wifi, a shared satellite terminal, one bar of LTE, a Meshtastic mesh, HF, packet, Iridium SBD. On a link like that, a 4 MB photo is not slow — it never arrives. Kompressed makes it 24 KB and tells you how long that will take to send. Flying on slow WiFi on an airline but want to get the data out, Kompressed can help you with that. Say the size three ways: pick a radio and a transmit window and let the arithmetic hand you the budget, type a plain 200 KB, or set quality and bitrate by hand. Then it works backwards. Stills binary-search encoder quality to land just under the budget, giving up resolution only when quality alone cannot get there. Video encodes, measures, corrects and re-encodes until the file actually fits — because a bitrate setting is a request, not a promise. MESHTASTIC AND OTHER TINY LINKS Ships with presets for Meshtastic thumbnails, VARA HF recon photos, Iridium SBD single bursts and a one-QR handoff, so a net can agree on one set of numbers and export them as JSON. Text armor sends numbered Base64 blocks with a CRC, so the far end knows block 7 of 12 never arrived and asks for exactly that. Reed-Solomon FEC packets cover one-way links where there is nobody to ask. QR covers phone to phone with no network at all. TAK Results can even leave as an ATAK data package — a MANIFEST and a CoT event built from the photo's own EXIF position — so the picture lands on the map at its coordinates instead of in a downloads folder. One tap of the share sheet reaches ATAK, iTAK, TAKAware, Messages, AirDrop or Files. NOT JUST PHOTOS GPS tracks 246 KB to 2.0 KB with waypoint names intact. Telemetry and CSV 211 KB to 12 KB, cell for cell identical. Scanned pages 414 KB to 3.5 KB. Screenshots, short reports, any other file. Every package is decoded again and compared against the original before a ratio is allowed to be the headline. EVERYTHING RUNS ON THE PHONE No upload, no account, no server, no network calls of any kind. It works in airplane mode, in a valley, on a boat. What you compress never leaves the device until you choose where it goes — which is the point, on a connection even if it is the thinnest of IP pipes.

Screenshots

Stitch It4 screens
Kompressed4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Stitch It at Free against Kompressed's $1.99. Stitch It also leads on ratings volume (2.7K vs 1) and device support (4 vs 1). Kompressed's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and in-app purchases (none vs 6). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Stitch It is free to download; Kompressed costs $1.99 up front. Stitch It sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Kompressed asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Kompressed holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stitch It has 2.7K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stitch It ships an update every 9 days, Kompressed every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Stitch It versus Kompressed: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStitch ItKompressed
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.4 (2.7K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews61.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2.7K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThirty Seven Inc.MARSHALL TYLER FRITH

Customer experience

Stitch It

All ratings2,707 ratings
Positive83.8%
Neutral3.1%
Negative13.0%
Written reviews713 reviews
Positive61.0%
Neutral7.2%
Negative31.8%

Kompressed

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Stitch It

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Inability to access photo library
  • Stitched images losing top/bottom content
  • Inconsistent behavior when upgrading to pro
  • Watermark not removed after pro upgrade

Requested features

5 requests
  • Horizontal stitching option
  • Ability to add annotations and text
  • Improved image quality and compression
  • Seamless integration with photo library
  • Customization options for output format

Kompressed

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Stitch It

Subscriptions3
  • Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Pro Annual$9.991 Year
One-time3
  • Pro Lifetime$4.99
  • Pro Upgrade$4.99
  • Pro Lifetime$19.99
None

Kompressed

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stitch It free?
Stitch It is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Kompressed free?
Kompressed costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Stitch It or Kompressed?
Kompressed is rated higher. Stitch It averages 4.4 out of 5 from 2.7K ratings, while Kompressed averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Stitch It or Kompressed have ads?
Stitch It shows ads; Kompressed does not.
Which is updated more often, Stitch It or Kompressed?
Stitch It ships an update every 9 days, and Kompressed every 3 weeks. Most recently, Stitch It was updated on October 26, 2026 and Kompressed on October 24, 2026.

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