Compress vs CirTrack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
CirTrack
This comprehensive utility app helps users track various aspects of their daily lives, including intermittent fasting, workouts, to-do lists, finances, and medication schedules. It offers seamless integration with Apple Health and provides progress review tools. The app supports multiple languages and syncs across Apple devices.
- Intermittent fasting tracking
- Workout planning and Apple Health sync
- To-do list and habit management
- Budgeting and expense logging
- Medication reminders
- iCloud Sync across Apple devices
- Widgets and Live Activities
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CirTrack: All-in-One Tracking App CirTrack is an all-in-one tracking app for 16:8 intermittent fasting, workouts, to-dos, countdowns, check-ins, item tracking, budgeting and medication reminders. Track your diet and fasting cycles. Plan workouts and sync with Apple Health. Manage tasks, habits and important dates. Log items, daily costs and finances. Sync with HealthKit for steps, heart rate, weight and sleep. Review your progress and growth. Features: iCloud Sync (SwiftData + CloudKit) Chinese & English Widgets & Live Activities iPhone / iPad / Mac
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Compress at Free against CirTrack's $3.99. Compress also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and rating (4.4 vs 4.0). CirTrack's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). On review sentiment, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Compress is free to download; CirTrack costs $3.99 up front. CirTrack sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Compress asks for nothing beyond the download.
Compress holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Compress has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Compress ships an update every 2 weeks, CirTrack every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Compress | CirTrack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.4 (7 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Cameron Banga | 鹏飞 高 |
Customer experience
Compress
CirTrack
In-app purchases
Compress
No in-app purchases
CirTrack
- CirTrack Lifetime$3.99
