Comparison

Semaphor vs Image Compressor & Resizer

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

Head to head
About

Semaphor

Features
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Semaphor answers simple question: Are my websites online and running? Stop finding out your site is down from a customer email. PERFECT FOR - Business owners wanting to know if their store is online - Agencies and freelancers watching client websites - Indie makers watching their own sites and landing pages - Developers watching endpoints and APIs FRESH WIDGETS Semaphor has beautiful widgets so you can see your status anywhere on your screen. Pick your refresh interval and turn on notifications so you never miss alert. THE APP IS YOUR DASHBOARD Add and organize your sites, see them all on one board, and tap any site for its response time, its recent checks and the latest HTTP result. Tap refresh to re-check every site at once. TELLS YOU WHEN IT BREAKS Turn on down alerts and Semaphor notifies you when a site goes red. Quiet hours hold alerts back overnight, and you can mute one site while you are busy fixing it. SSL CERTIFICATES BEFORE THEY EXPIRE See how many days are left on a site's SSL certificate and who issued it, and get a warning 14 days and 3 days before it expires. UPTIME HISTORY Uptime over 7 and 30 days, total downtime, the longest outage and the average response time, per site and across all of them. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no sign-up. Semaphor contacts the websites you add and nothing else, and it stores your list and results on your device. No analytics, no tracking, no data collected about you. Ever. UPGRADE IF YOU NEED MORE Full version contains: Unlimited sites, down alerts, quiet hours, every check interval, website history, every widget size including Lock Screen. REQUIREMENTS - iPhone and iPad - iOS 17 or later - Free to download, no account required

About

Image Compressor & Resizer

Features
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Compress and resize any image in seconds โ€” right on your iPhone or iPad, with every photo processed 100% offline. Fexo Shrink is the private image compressor and resizer that never uploads your photos. Bring in a single shot or a whole batch from your Photo Library or Files, then shrink it with a simple quality dial, hit an exact target file size like "under 200 KB", or resize to the dimensions you need. You see a real before-and-after comparison with verified byte savings before you decide to save, replace, or share โ€” no guessing, no surprises. Because Fexo does everything on-device, your images stay yours. Nothing leaves your phone, ever. KEY FEATURES Compress with a quality slider plus Small, Balanced, and High presets, with a live output-size estimate Target file size โ€” aim for under 20, 50, 100, 200, 500 KB or 1 MB and let Fexo byte-verify its way there Resize by 75/50/25%, 12 named dimension presets, or a custom width and height Fit modes โ€” Maintain, Crop, Pad, or Stretch, so nothing is ever silently distorted Convert between JPG, PNG, WebP, and HEIC, hardware-accelerated for speed Crop, rotate, and flip editor with independent edits for every image in a batch Metadata control โ€” keep all EXIF, strip GPS only, or remove everything Batch processing with Pause, Resume, and Cancel, plus one-tap ZIP export of all results Save a new copy or replace the original safely, after the system's consent prompt History tab logs every run with thumbnails and your lifetime storage saved Full-screen pinch-to-zoom preview, Home-Screen Quick Compress, and "Open image in Fexo" sharing. Why choose Fexo: it's fast, honest, and fully offline. Fexo shows you the real savings and tells you plainly if a target was missed or a file grew โ€” no inflated claims. From the Fexo team: a private image studio built to respect your photos and your storage. Download Fexo Shrink today and take back your space.

Screenshots

Semaphor4 screens
Image Compressor & Resizer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Image Compressor & Resizer at none against Semaphor's 1. Image Compressor & Resizer also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

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. Semaphor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Image Compressor & Resizer asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Semaphor versus Image Compressor & Resizer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSemaphorImage Compressor & Resizer
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS17.013.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size10 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBEGRIPFexo FZC LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Semaphor

One-time1
  • Semaphor Lifetime$3.99
None

Image Compressor & Resizer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Semaphor free?
Semaphor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Image Compressor & Resizer free?
Image Compressor & Resizer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Semaphor or Image Compressor & Resizer have ads?
Neither Semaphor nor Image Compressor & Resizer shows ads.

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