Comparison

MediaKit vs Shrinkly

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

MediaKit

Features
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Stop juggling ten apps to fix one file. MediaKit is more than 150 media tools in a single app โ€” video, audio, image, PDF, archive, and ebook utilities that finally work the way Apple's own apps should. Every operation runs locally on your iPhone or Mac. Nothing is uploaded. Nothing is logged. Drop a file. MediaKit does the rest. THREE DAYS PRO, FREE Install and use everything Pro for three days. No card, no trick. Decide after. FIVE TOOLS, ALWAYS FREE Video compress, image compress, image resize, audio convert, PDF compress. No paywall, no account, no time limit. Use them forever, on every device. ONE PURCHASE, EVERY DEVICE Universal Purchase: buy on iPhone, use on Mac. Buy on Mac, use on iPhone. Family Sharing is included โ€” one purchase covers your household. VIDEO โ€” 41 TOOLS Compress, convert, trim, crop, rotate, merge, resize. Watermark. Burn in subtitles. Replace audio. Picture-in-picture. Side-by-side. Scene detect. Stabilize handheld footage. Denoise. HDR โ†’ SDR. Color grade. Fade. Loop. Reverse. Slow-mo. Frame-rate convert. ProRes and HEVC export. Transcribe captions on-device. Reads more than 80 input formats, MKV included. AUDIO โ€” 24 TOOLS Extract from any video. Convert MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC, AIFF, ALAC, AAC, OGG, OPUS, AC3. Trim. Fade. Merge. Reverse. Pitch shift. Speed change without chipmunk. Denoise. Equalizer. Silence-split. Ringtone maker. Waveform render. Spectrum. Speech-to-text. Normalize to EBU R128, the loudness standard broadcasters measure against. IMAGE โ€” 37 TOOLS Compress and convert HEIC, JPG, PNG, WebP, TIFF, GIF, AVIF, BMP, plus 10 camera RAW formats (CR2, CR3, NEF, ARW, DNG, ORF, RW2, RAF, PEF, SRW). Background removal using Apple Vision. AI upscale. OCR. QR generate + read. Color palette extract. Watermark. Batch rename. App-icon set generator. Auto-enhance. Borders. Collage. ICO/ICNS icons. PDF โ€” 25 TOOLS Compress, merge, split, encrypt, unlock, page numbers, header/footer, watermark, stamp, sign, reorder, rotate, crop, redact, flatten, OCR, extract text/pages/images. Vector content stays vector โ€” your PDFs stay searchable and sharp instead of being flattened into pictures of pages. ARCHIVE โ€” 14 TOOLS ZIP, GZIP, TAR, TAR.GZ, XZ, BZIP2: create + extract. RAR4 and RAR5 extract (read-only). Path-traversal-safe by default. EBOOK โ€” 14 TOOLS EPUB โ†” PDF โ†” HTML โ†” plain text. Kindle and FictionBook too: MOBI, AZW3 and FB2 convert straight to EPUB, PDF or text. CBZ comic books: create + extract. Edit EPUB metadata. Validate against the EPUB spec. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Sandboxed App Store app. Apple frameworks only โ€” AVFoundation, CoreImage, PDFKit, Vision, Speech, Compression. No third-party services. No analytics SDK. No background uploads. The only non-Apple code is RARLAB's official open-source RAR-extraction library, statically linked. Your files never leave the device. WORKS WITH SHORTCUTS Six Apple Shortcuts actions โ€” automate Compress Video, Convert Image, Compress Image, Merge PDFs, Create ZIP, and OCR from your existing workflows. Built by one developer. Direct support. Every reply comes from the person who wrote the code. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Shrinkly

Features
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Compress videos on your iPhone โ€” Shrinkly shrinks file size fast, privately, and fully on-device so you free up storage without uploading anything. Pick a batch, preview how many MB youโ€™ll save, then export lighter copies. Originals stay in Photos unless you choose to remove them. WHY SHRINKLY VIDEO โ€ข Compress videos before you share or upload โ€ข Preview storage savings before you commit โ€ข Batch shrink multiple videos in one go โ€ข Choose the size that fits your needs โ€ข Compare real before & after quality โ€ข Great for WhatsApp, social, email, and uploads โ€ข No account. No cloud. Videos never leave your phone. Free up storage and shrink video size without losing the moment. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://app.fandyaditya.com/privacy/shrinkly-video/

Screenshots

MediaKit4 screens
Shrinkly4 screens

Verdict

The call

MediaKit and Shrinkly are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. MediaKit sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Shrinkly sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
MediaKit versus Shrinkly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMediaKitShrinkly
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightlyโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, MaciPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size15 MB16 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperAntti AittamaaI Made Fandy Aditya Wirana

In-app purchases

3 purchases

MediaKit

Subscriptions2
  • MediaKit Pro Monthly3 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • MediaKit Pro Yearly3 Days trial$22.991 Year
One-time1
  • MediaKit Pro Lifetime$39.99
2 purchases

Shrinkly

Subscriptions1
  • Shrinkly Video Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
One-time1
  • Shrinkly Video Pro Lifetime$14.99

Questions

Is MediaKit free?
MediaKit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Shrinkly free?
Shrinkly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do MediaKit or Shrinkly have ads?
Neither MediaKit nor Shrinkly shows ads.

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