VideoDuck vs minimo (video)
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
VideoDuck
This app helps you shrink video file sizes to free up storage space on your device. It offers fast, offline compression without subscriptions or internet connection, allowing for quicker sharing. You can choose custom quality levels and compress multiple videos at once.
- Compress videos instantly
- Free up storage space
- Offline operation
- Faster sharing
- Batch compression
- Custom quality levels
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VideoDuck – Video Compressor & Space Saver Meet VideoDuck, your friendly video compressor that keeps your iPhone fast, light, and free – no subscriptions, no ads, no internet needed. Shrink clips. Free up space. Share faster. VideoDuck compresses videos right on your iPhone using Apple Silicon's hardware encoder. Everything stays private – no uploads, no waiting, no data used. Free, forever • Compress any video with one tap – keep the moment, lose the megabytes • See exactly how much space you freed, every time • 100% on-device – works offline, private by design • Share faster – smaller files fly through AirDrop, messages, and mail • Your originals are always safe – you choose what to keep VideoDuck Pro – one-time unlock, never a subscription • High & Low quality modes – you pick the balance between quality and size • Batch compression – shrink your whole camera roll at once, resumes if interrupted • Advanced controls – resolution cap, frame rate, format Free to use. One payment to unlock everything. Nothing to cancel – ever. Your pocket supercomputer Compression runs entirely on your iPhone – no servers, no cloud, no queue. It's not just fast, it's private by design. Quack. Compress. Done. Free your phone from heavy videos in one tap – your iPhone deserves to breathe again. Download VideoDuck and make space for what matters.
minimo (video)
This app helps you reduce the size of your video files directly on your device, freeing up storage space. It offers simple presets and advanced controls for resolution and audio, ensuring your original files remain untouched.
- On-device video compression
- Batch processing
- Simple quality presets
- Advanced resolution and audio controls
- Save to Photos or share directly
- Originals remain untouched
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Make large videos smaller for sharing and saving space. minimo (video) compresses one video or a whole batch directly on your device, without uploading your videos to a server. CHOOSE YOUR BALANCE Use a simple quality preset or fine-tune resolution, bitrate, frame rate, and codec. Keep the audio or remove it. CHECK THE RESULT See estimated file sizes before compression, follow the progress, and compare the original with the compressed video before saving. SAVE AND SHARE Save smaller copies to Photos or share them straight away. Originals stay untouched unless you explicitly choose to delete them. NO CLOUD UPLOADS. NO SUBSCRIPTION. minimo is free and open source. Your videos are processed on your device. Lighter videos. Moments stay.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: VideoDuck at daily against minimo (video)'s every 4 days. minimo (video)'s advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and ratings volume (7 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for VideoDuck against 4.4 for minimo (video). Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 7 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
VideoDuck ships an update daily, minimo (video) every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | VideoDuck | minimo (video) |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better | 4.4 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Davyd Horhiashvili | Gleb Shalimov |
Customer experience
VideoDuck
minimo (video)
In-app purchases
VideoDuck
No in-app purchases
minimo (video)
No in-app purchases









