PhotoShrinker vs Compress Cam Basic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PhotoShrinker
Compress your photos to free up valuable storage space on your device. This app intelligently optimizes images to significantly reduce file size while maintaining visual quality for viewing on your phone.
- Compress photos
- Free up storage space
- Optimize image size
- Maintain visual quality
- Batch shrinking
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Are you running out of space because of too many photos on your phone? Use PhotoShrinker to compress them and free up space to store more photos, apps, and music! PhotoShrinker intelligently compresses and optimizes photos to only use about one-tenth of the space of the original photos, while the image quality will still look the same on your phone! If you have thousands of photos taking up space on your phone, then download PhotoShrinker now to shrink them all!
Compress Cam Basic
This app helps you reduce the file size of your photos, both as you take them and from your existing album. It preserves high image quality while saving storage space and data usage, making sharing easier.
- Automatic image compression while shooting
- Compress existing photos from album
- Easy operation and simple design
- Save on data usage
- Preserves high image quality
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This is the free version with ads. Are you struggling with insufficient storage space on your smartphone or overly large photo files? “Compress Cam” is a convenient photo compression app that automatically reduces the file size of your photos while maintaining high image quality, helping you save on data storage. ◆ Main Features • Automatic Image Compression Shooting: Compresses images automatically as you shoot. Significantly reduces file size while preserving high resolution. • Compress Existing Photos: Easily compress photos in your album to save smartphone storage space. • Easy Operation & Simple Design: With an intuitive interface, anyone can start using it immediately. • Save on Data Usage: By reducing file sizes when sharing photos via SNS or email, it makes uploading and sending smoother and helps you save on data usage. ◆ Recommended For • Those who find large photo file sizes slow to upload to SNS or send via email. • Those troubled by insufficient smartphone storage space. • Those who want to resize and compress photos while maintaining high image quality. • Those who wish to save on data usage. Enjoy shooting and sharing photos without worrying about file sizes with “Compress Cam”! Download now to experience smart photo compression!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Compress Cam Basic at Free against PhotoShrinker's $2.99. Compress Cam Basic also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.6). PhotoShrinker's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (33 vs 2). On update cadence, in-app purchases 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
Compress Cam Basic is free to download; PhotoShrinker costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Compress Cam Basic holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PhotoShrinker has 33 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
PhotoShrinker ships an update every 7 months, Compress Cam Basic every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and June 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PhotoShrinker | Compress Cam Basic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.6 (33 ratings) | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Best chart rank | #184 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hype Reactor, Inc. | Yasuhiro Takano |
Customer experience
PhotoShrinker
Compress Cam Basic
Bugs and requests
PhotoShrinker
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes when compressing large batches of photos
- Duplicates photos in camera roll after compression
- Doesn't work with latest iOS updates
Requested features
3 requests- Option to keep original photos
- Ability to control compression level
- Support for video compression
Compress Cam Basic
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PhotoShrinker
No in-app purchases
Compress Cam Basic
No in-app purchases
Questions
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