Comparison

Tabby Picks vs Compress Image

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

Head to head
About

Tabby Picks

Features
Read full description

Trips, concerts, parties, the kids, the cat—you fire off a few hundred in one go, the same pose or scene over and over. Then you want to post a few right away and end up scrolling forever: the blurry ones, the blown-out ones, the same smile eight times. Choosing is its own chore. Tabby does the sorting for you. Hand it a batch of photos and the cat quietly surfaces your best shots—ready to post right away, or saved into their own album to edit later. What Tabby does for you • Surfaces your best — automatically pulls out the strongest, share-ready shots, so you're not comparing them one by one. • Groups look-alikes, keeps the best — the same pose or the same scene shot over and over (not just camera bursts) gets grouped, and Tabby keeps the best one. The rest tuck underneath—swap anytime. • Sets the rejects aside — handshake blur, too dark, too bright: moved out of the way. Flagged and grouped only, never deleted. Bring any back with one tap. • Share in a tap — post, message, or AirDrop straight from your picks. • Saves to its own album — your picks land in a dedicated album in Photos, created for you. No making an album by hand and adding shots one at a time. Open it anytime to edit or share. Tabby also handles • Full RAW support — RAW from CCD, DSLR and mirrorless cameras is read and culled like anything else. Keep originals as-is, or convert to JPEG for easy sharing—your call. • Import straight from a card — connect a reader to your iPhone and import; once it's done, pull the card and go. Import only—your originals are never touched. • More or fewer, on a slider — too many keepers, or too few? Drag the slider to widen or narrow the selection. No hand-picking. • Runs in the background — a big batch of large files to chew through? Let it run while you use your iPhone for something else. Three steps Import — from your iPhone library, or from external storage (a camera card, a portable drive, a USB stick—anything that connects to your iPhone). Let it sort — the good ones come to the front, look-alikes group together, the misses move aside. You decide — drag the slider for more or fewer, bring back anything misjudged with one tap, then share or save. How Tabby does it Good photos can't be defined—but they can be measured. On top of iPhone's powerful on-device image analysis, Tabby adds a culling engine built for one job: choosing. It reads each frame—focus and sharpness, exposure and highlight/shadow detail, composition and overall appeal—and compares perceptual fingerprints to find look-alikes, grouping bursts and repeated scenes. Every photo is judged against one consistent standard and gets a clear verdict: a keeper, a look-alike, or a miss. That standard is tuned on a large body of real photos, and it all runs on your iPhone. Your photos never leave your iPhone Everything runs 100% on your device: no uploads, no network, no cloud, no extra backups, no tracking. It even works in Airplane Mode—your privacy is absolute. What it doesn't do • No editing, no color grading — it only chooses. Leave retouching to the tools you already love. • It won't delete your photos — it flags and groups; deleting is up to you. • It won't decide for you — a fast, sharp first pass; which shots make the cut is your call. Hand the tedious part to Tabby. Sort in minutes, and get back to what you'd rather be doing.

About

Compress Image

Features
Read full description

Compress Image - the fastest way to shrink photos from MB to KB without losing quality. Need to email a photo that's too big, upload an image with a strict size limit, or free up space on your iPhone? Compress Image reduces the file size of your photos in seconds - and shows you exactly how the result will look and how much space it will take, before you save it. THREE WAYS TO COMPRESS - Quick Compress: pick a compression level and go - the app optimizes your photo to save the most space while looking as good as the original. - Target file size: need a photo under 100, 200 or 500 KB for a form or application? Pick a preset or enter the exact size in KB, and the app hits it for you. - Manual: set the exact width, height and compression amount for full control over the result. LIVE PREVIEW - SEE BEFORE YOU SAVE No more guessing. Compress Image shows you the actual compressed photo and its file size before you create it, so you always know what you're getting. BATCH COMPRESSION Select multiple photos and compress or resize them all at once. Perfect for cleaning up your photo library or preparing a whole album for upload. PRIVATE & OFFLINE Your photos are processed entirely on your device - nothing is ever uploaded. YOUR FILES, YOUR WAY - Compress HEIC, JPG, PNG, WEBP, GIF and more - compressed photos are saved as universally compatible JPG - Keep or remove photo metadata (EXIF) - Save to your photo library or to any folder in the Files app - Keep the originals or delete them once you're done - Compress photos straight from the Share sheet in Photos and other apps - Share compressed photos straight from the app PERFECT FOR: - Emailing photos with attachment size limits - Job applications, visa forms & websites with strict KB limits - Freeing up storage on your iPhone or iPad - Faster uploads to social media and chat apps Simple and fast. Download Compress Image and shrink your first photo from MB to KB in seconds. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Tabby Picks4 screens
Compress Image4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tabby Picks at none against Compress Image's 2. Tabby Picks also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Compress Image sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days. Tabby Picks asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Tabby Picks versus Compress Image: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTabby PicksCompress Image
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer桐槿 周Double Ape

In-app purchases

None

Tabby Picks

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Compress Image

Subscriptions1
  • Compress Image Pro (Weekly)3 Days trial$5.997 Days
One-time1
  • Compress Image Pro (Lifetime)$29.99

Questions

Is Tabby Picks free?
Tabby Picks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Compress Image free?
Compress Image is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tabby Picks or Compress Image have ads?
Neither Tabby Picks nor Compress Image shows ads.

Other comparisons