PureStatus vs HD Status
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PureStatus
Enhance your social media stories with this app, ensuring your videos and photos maintain HD quality. It offers AI-powered tools for creative editing, sticker creation, and photo restoration, all while preserving the original clarity of your content.
- Compress videos for HD status
- AI Festival Photoshoot
- Create custom WhatsApp stickers
- Restore old photos
- Apply AI art styles
- Remove objects and backgrounds
- Split long videos for status
Read full descriptionHide full description
PureStatus: HD WhatsApp Status, plus AI Studio Tired of blurry, low-quality videos and photos in your WhatsApp status? When you post a video, WhatsApp shrinks it and the quality drops. PureStatus compresses your video precisely for WhatsApp first, so what you post stays as sharp as HD status allows. Crystal-clear status in four steps Open PureStatus and select a video or photo. Compress it. Share to your WhatsApp status. Enjoy crystal-clear HD. New: AI Studio Create the post itself, right inside PureStatus. • Festival Photoshoot: put yourself in 175 festivals and 460 poses, from Diwali, Eid and Holi to Christmas and Chinese New Year. Couple poses take a photo of each person. Add a greeting in your language, written into the picture. • WhatsApp Stickers: make stickers from text or your own photo, a 6 or 9 sticker pack of you in one go, and animated stickers. Add them to WhatsApp with one tap. • Photo Restore: fix old, faded and blurry photos and bring back natural colour. • AI Styles: cartoon, anime, oil painting, watercolour, sketch and 3D looks. • Object Eraser, Passport Photo, Upscale, Background Remover and Fit to Status. • AI Image: describe anything and get a picture. • Photo to Video: give a still photo natural motion. Video HD: upscale old clips. Video Reframe: fit or crop any video to the 9:16 status size, free and on your phone. Photo Slideshow: photos into a status video with six transitions. Pick a model for each tool, from fast to top quality, and see the price in tokens before you generate. Every result lands in My Creations and posts to Status in one tap. You get 200 free tokens when you activate and 100 free tokens every month; buy packs when you need more. Get the best results • Don't edit or crop a video after compressing; the status will lose quality again. • Compress the original file, not a video that was already shared. Quality that is already gone can't be restored by compression. Use Photo Restore or Video HD for that. • Compare for yourself: post the compressed and the original version and look at both. • Vertical videos and photos give the largest viewing area and are the most popular on phones. Please keep in mind • Compression stops your HD video from turning blurry on WhatsApp; it does not improve the original. • The photo function is for HD status only. Sent in a chat, it arrives as a video. • The video splitter is for longer status videos. Used in chats, the parts arrive as 30-second videos. Bonus: Video Status Splitter Longer videos are cut into 30-second parts, precisely and in the best possible quality, so you can post a full video to your status. Your privacy Compression runs on your phone. AI tools upload only the photo or video you choose, process it with AI providers, and you keep the result. Nothing is used to train AI models. Unlock the true potential of your WhatsApp status. Download PureStatus and start sharing in HD. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
HD Status
Preserve the original quality of your photos and videos when posting to social media. This app allows you to edit and send media at full resolution, avoiding compression artifacts. It's designed for users who want their content to look its best.
- Post full-quality photos up to 2048px
- Post full-quality videos up to 1080p
- Trim and crop videos
- Add captions
- Send multiple media at once
- No account or password required
Read full descriptionHide full description
Your Status should look as good as the moment you captured. Every photo and video you post to Status gets re-compressed on the way. Videos go blurry, text goes soft, colors fade and skies turn into stripes. HD Status is the way around it. HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick your photo or video in HD Status. 2. Trim it, crop it and add a caption if you like. 3. It lands in your own chat at full quality. Forward it to your Status from there, and the quality survives. WHAT YOU GET • Full quality: photos up to 2048 px and videos up to 1080p, never upscaled and never squashed on the way through. • Trim videos: cut to the part that matters. A shorter clip keeps more detail. • Crop for Status: square, 4:5 or full-screen 9:16. • Captions: write it once, and it travels with the photo or video. • HDR done right: iPhone HDR recordings come out vivid, not washed out. • Send several at once, without doing them one by one. • Free every day: 2 full-quality sends a day, on the house. • One-tap setup: no account, no password, no number to type. MADE FOR PEOPLE WHO SELL AND CREATE ON STATUS Makeup artists, event planners, content creators and small businesses: when customers judge your work by your Status, it should look as sharp as the real thing. PRIVATE BY DESIGN You activate by sending one message. That message proves the number is yours, and it is the only number HD Status can ever send to. We never ask you to type your number, and we can't message anyone but you. FREE OR PREMIUM Everyone gets 2 free sends every day. Free sends carry a small mark and are supported by ads. Premium removes both: • No watermark • No ads • 50 sends a day • Up to 5 at a time Weekly, monthly and yearly plans are available, and new subscribers can start the weekly plan with a 3-day free trial. Prices and lengths are shown in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and you can manage or cancel them in your Apple Account settings. Requires WhatsApp. HD Status is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by WhatsApp or Meta. Privacy Policy: https://greenotify.com/hub/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: HD Status at none against PureStatus's shown. HD Status also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). PureStatus's advantage is rating (4.3 vs 3.8) and ratings volume (12K vs 9). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. PureStatus sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and HD Status sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.19 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PureStatus holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PureStatus has 12K ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two.
PureStatus ships an update every 2 weeks, HD Status every 3 days. Both last shipped on November 8, 2026.
| Parameter | PureStatus | HD Status |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (12K ratings) — better | 3.8 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 48.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 12K — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 125 MB | 78 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DamTech Designs | Victor Ezinwa |
Customer experience
PureStatus
HD Status
Bugs and requests
PureStatus
Reported bugs
3 issues- Video compression not working
- App freezing or crashing
- Inconsistent performance
Requested features
3 requests- 1080p video compression for 1 minute
- Search option for background music
- Account sync across devices
HD Status
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PureStatus
- Weekly Compress Pass$1.997 Days
- Premium Weekly$3.997 Days
- Monthly Compress Pass$4.991 Month
Show 2 moreShow fewer
- Premium Monthly3 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Premium Yearly7 Days trial$69.991 Year
- AI Tokens Starter Pack$0.99
- AI Tokens Popular Pack$3.99
- AI Tokens Value Pack$9.99
Show 1 moreShow fewer
- AI Tokens Mega Pack$19.99
HD Status
- HD Status Pro$4.191 Month
- HD Status Premium$29.991 Year
- 50 send units$0.99
- 150 send units$2.49








