Fly! Tomato vs Compress
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fly! Tomato
Transform work sessions into exciting flight missions to enhance concentration. Select a destination, start a Pomodoro session with immersive animation, and track your progress as your virtual flight progresses. Land to review your session and plan your next focus period.
- Gamified flight missions for productivity
- Pomodoro timer with immersive animation
- Time and distance-based focus tracking
- Session review and planning
- Destination selection for focus time
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Make time for the task in front of you. Fly! Tomato turns a focus session into a virtual journey between real airports. CHOOSE YOUR FLIGHT Pick a departure airport, explore nearby destinations, and review your flight time before checking in. FOCUS AS YOU FLY Take off and follow your virtual flight on the map. See the time and distance remaining, switch between the flight view and route overview, and pause or continue when you need to. KEEP YOUR PROGRESS Return to an unfinished flight after reopening the app. Review your flight history, including completed, paused, and cancelled sessions. Choose your route, settle into your task, and enjoy the journey. Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
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 update cadence: Compress at every 2 weeks against Fly! Tomato's every 8 months. Compress also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Fly! Tomato ships an update every 8 months, Compress every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fly! Tomato | Compress |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.4 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zhijun Guo | Cameron Banga |
Customer experience
Fly! Tomato
Compress
In-app purchases
Fly! Tomato
No in-app purchases
Compress
No in-app purchases
