AutoAlign vs Video Compressor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AutoAlign
Effortlessly correct leaning buildings in your photos with a single tap. This app preserves HDR brilliance and eliminates keystone distortion without complex adjustments. Ideal for urban, architectural, and travel photography.
- One-tap automatic vertical alignment
- Full HDR preservation
- Manual fine-tuning with guide lines
- Three output modes (fill, crop, raw)
- Instant before/after comparison
- Non-destructive editing
- Metadata preservation
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Straighten leaning buildings in one tap, keep your HDR, and now keep your documents too. Shoot a building from street level and a wide-angle lens makes the walls lean inward. AutoAlign works out the exact angle the photo was taken at and reverses it, so verticals stand straight without the stretched look other tools leave behind. No tripod, no tilt-shift lens. NEW IN 4.0 • Documents: scan receipts, letters, cards and slides, one shot per page. Pages are cropped, straightened and filed by type. • Ask Documents (experimental): ask about your documents with the on-device model of Apple Intelligence. • A new editor in the style of Photos, and several photos at once. STRAIGHTEN • A perspective engine built on real camera geometry, the mathematics professional desktop tools use. Straight lines come back straight and proportions stay true. • Full, or vertical only. Skewed facades are squared too, not just converging verticals. • Not just buildings: billboards, posters, whiteboards and artwork straighten automatically as well. • Manual Fix for anything the automatic pass cannot read. Drag four corners onto the subject and it flattens square. • Decide what happens to the empty corners: keep them, fill them, or cut them off. Trim sky and foreground too. • Straighten, Crop, Perspective and Adjust in an editor in the style of Photos. Press and hold to compare before and after. • Pick several photos and move between them with the strip under the photo. • Works inside the Photos app as an extension. No exporting, no duplicates. DOCUMENTS • Scan with the built-in camera, one shot per page. AutoAlign finds the page, then crops and straightens it. • Or add pages from Photos and Files. • Every document gets a title and a category, from the on-device model of Apple Intelligence where available: receipts, bills, cards, notes, slides, letters, IDs, or your own. • Search by any word on the page, who sent it, or where you scanned it, in the app or from Spotlight. • Share any document as a searchable PDF. • Date, place and camera are kept on every page. ASK DOCUMENTS, WITH APPLE INTELLIGENCE (EXPERIMENTAL) Ask in your own words: "what was the total on the Hofer receipt?" The answer comes with the document it came from. Nothing is sent anywhere. Uses the on-device model of Apple Intelligence; needs a supported device with Apple Intelligence turned on. Works best in English. WHAT IT KEEPS • HDR. The gain map is corrected alongside the photo, so brightness and colour survive intact. • EXIF, GPS, timestamps and camera settings. • Your original. Every edit is revertible from the Photos app. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no tracking, no analytics. Your photos and documents are processed and stored on your device. LANGUAGES English, العربية, Deutsch, Español, Français, Nederlands, 简体中文. FREE AND PREMIUM Free: the full correction, Manual Fix, cropping, and up to 4 documents. Exports carry a watermark, and photos save at reduced resolution. Premium: full-resolution and HDR export, no watermark, unlimited documents. Monthly, yearly, or a one-time purchase. MADE FOR Architecture, real estate, interiors, cityscapes and travel. Posters, whiteboards and artwork shot at an angle. And the receipts, letters and cards you need to keep. NOTE Automatic correction works best where the scene has clear straight edges. Where it does not, Manual Fix always does. Learn more: orbitaar.com/auto-align.html Terms: orbitaar.com/autoalign/terms-of-use.html
Video Compressor
This app helps you reduce video file sizes to save storage space and make sharing easier. It offers various quality presets and a target size control for flexible compression, all processed directly on your device for privacy.
- Smart video compression
- Quality presets (144p to 1080p)
- Target file size control
- Batch processing queue
- Real-time compression progress
- On-device processing
- Privacy-focused
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ShrinkIt shrinks videos on your iPhone so you can free up storage and share clips through email or messaging apps without hitting size limits. KEY FEATURES Smart Video Compression Five quality presets or a custom target file size. Up to 90% size reduction at the lowest setting. Quality Presets - 1080p Full HD: Minimal compression, maximum quality - 720p HD: Balance of quality and size - 480p SD: Standard quality for everyday use - 360p: Smaller files for messaging - 144p: Maximum compression for minimal storage Target Size Control Set a target in MB. ShrinkIt picks compression settings to land near it. Useful for email attachments or platform upload limits. Batch Queue Queue multiple videos and let them process one after another. Pause and resume any time. Real-Time Progress See original size, compressed size, space saved, and elapsed time per video. Dark Mode Auto-follows system settings or pick light/dark manually. Privacy First All processing runs on your device with Apple's AVFoundation. Videos never leave your iPhone. No account, no internet required. WHY SHRINKIT Save Storage Compression often saves 50–80% on phone-recorded videos. Save gigabytes per shoot. On-Device Hardware-accelerated using your iPhone's video encoder. No upload, no waiting on a server. Quality You Control Pick a preset or a target size — ShrinkIt won't make decisions for you. Good for: - Freeing up iPhone storage - Email attachments under 25 MB - WhatsApp / iMessage / Telegram - Trimming iCloud storage costs - Smaller backups WORKFLOW 1. Pick videos from Photos or Files 2. Choose preset or target size 3. Queue multiple if needed 4. Optionally auto-save to Photos when done TECHNICAL - Supports MP4, MOV, HEVC, and most iPhone-recorded formats - Hardware-accelerated AVFoundation encoder - Memory-aware — refuses files too large for your device - Maintains original aspect ratio - Output: H.264 MP4, up to 1080p, SDR - HDR sources are converted to SDR STORAGE TRACKING - Total space saved across all compressions - Number of videos compressed - Compression history (last 50) OPTIONS - Default quality preset - Auto-save to Photos toggle - Delete original after compression - Light / dark / auto theme - Pause queue when app goes to background Note: ShrinkIt needs Photos access to import and export videos. All processing is local.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: AutoAlign at Free against Video Compressor's $4.99. Video Compressor's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and review sentiment (50% vs 33%). On update cadence, ads 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
AutoAlign is free to download; Video Compressor costs $4.99 up front. AutoAlign sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Video Compressor asks for nothing beyond the download.
AutoAlign ships an update every 3 weeks, Video Compressor every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AutoAlign | Video Compressor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Osama Mazhar | Mobin Akhter |
Customer experience
AutoAlign
Video Compressor
In-app purchases
AutoAlign
- Weekly Plan3 Days trial$0.997 Days
- Monthly Premium Subscription7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Yearly Premium Subscription$4.991 Year
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- Yearly Premium Subscription Record$9.991 Year
- One-time Purchase$9.99
- One-time purchase Record$17.99
Video Compressor
No in-app purchases
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