OpenFind vs Compress
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OpenFind
Instantly locate text within images, screenshots, books, and labels using your device's camera or photo library. Organize your findings with stars and create custom lists for quick searches, all processed offline for maximum privacy.
- Real-time text recognition
- Search photo library
- Camera scanning
- Custom word lists
- Offline processing
- Privacy focused
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Find is an app to find text in real life. Look for text anywhere, whether that’s in screenshots, books, or even nutrition labels — all in real-time. Search your entire photo library in a split second and organize it with stars. Or use the camera and speed through forms and worksheets without hardly a glance. Create lists of allergies or dietary restrictions and find unwanted ingredients instantly. Find is faster than the human eye. Find was designed with privacy in mind, so all processes happen offline and nothing ever leaves your phone. There are no servers, no data collection, no analytics, and no internet connection is required. Find is a free and open-source app by Andrew Zheng. It has no ads, subscriptions, or in-app purchases, and does not make money. The source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/aheze/OpenFind Featuring: • Photos. The fastest way to find what you’re looking for. • Camera. Scan through books and worksheets like they’re nothing. • Lists. Group words together and search for them all at the same time.
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.
- Video compression
- Batch compression (up to 10 videos)
- Customizable compression settings
- On-device SRT caption generation
- Offline transcription
- SRT translation (23 languages)
- Privacy-focused
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: OpenFind at 4.4 against Compress's 4.2. OpenFind also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
OpenFind holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
| Parameter | OpenFind | Compress |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (9 ratings) — better | 4.2 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | — | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Find App, Inc. | Cameron Banga |
Customer experience
OpenFind
Compress
In-app purchases
OpenFind
No in-app purchases
Compress
No in-app purchases









