SkyFi App vs Kompressed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SkyFi App
Access real-time satellite data and imagery on demand. Task satellites, retrieve archived images, and receive automated geospatial analysis for various applications like agriculture, environmental monitoring, and urban planning. Get the data you need quickly without contracts.
- Real-time satellite data
- Task satellites
- Archived imagery retrieval
- Automated geospatial analysis
- Crop health monitoring
- Deforestation tracking
- Urban growth analysis
- Wildfire tracking
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SkyFi gives you real-time answers from space, on demand. Task satellites, pull archived imagery, and get automated geospatial analysis in one app. From crop health and deforestation to urban growth and wildfire tracking, SkyFi delivers the answers you need fast. Choose your location, sensor, and date. We handle the rest. No contracts, no gatekeepers. Just data that makes sense. Need help or prefer to talk to someone? Email us at: support@skyfi.com
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: SkyFi App at Free against Kompressed's $1.99. SkyFi App also leads on ratings volume (101 vs 1). Kompressed's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
SkyFi App is free to download; Kompressed costs $1.99 up front. SkyFi App sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Kompressed asks for nothing beyond the download.
Kompressed holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SkyFi App has 101 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
SkyFi App ships an update fortnightly, Kompressed weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SkyFi App | Kompressed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (101 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 101 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 166 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SkyFi | MARSHALL TYLER FRITH |
Customer experience
SkyFi App
Kompressed
In-app purchases
SkyFi App
- Entry Bundle$50.00
- Basic Bundle$200.00
- Advanced Bundle$300.00
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- Pro Bundle$400.00
- Elite Bundle$700.00
Kompressed
No in-app purchases
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