Free video compressor
Compress MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, and more, right in your browser. Shrink a clip to fit Discord, email, or an 8 MB upload limit, then download. No upload, no signup, no watermark.
Why compress video online with Typist?
Every major format
MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, M4V, and TS. Drop the file you have and compress it as-is, no conversion step first.
Free, no signup
Compress as many videos as you want. No account, no credit card, no hidden limits, ever.
No watermark
Your video comes out clean. We never stamp a logo or badge onto the file you download.
100% private
Compression runs in your browser. The video is never uploaded, never stored, never seen by us.
Compress a video in three steps
The whole process runs locally in your browser. No upload, no waiting on a server.
Drop a video file
MP4, MOV, or WebM up to 2 GB. The file stays on your device - nothing is uploaded.
Pick a compression preset
Balanced keeps it sharp at 1080p. Smaller fits email and Slack. Tiny goes as small as possible.
Download the smaller MP4
Get your compressed MP4, or transcribe the audio to text with Typist in one click.
Hit the size limit that's blocking you
Whatever you're sending it to, compress it down to fit
Compress video for Discord
Discord caps free uploads at 10 MB without Nitro. Maximum shrink, or a lower resolution, gets most short clips under the limit.
Compress video for email
Gmail caps attachments at 25 MB, Outlook around 20 MB. Drop the resolution a notch and most short videos land under both, still watchable.
Compress a video to 8 MB
Aiming for a target like 8 MB? Lower the resolution or pick Maximum shrink, then watch the estimated size before you download.
Compress a video on iPhone
Open this page in Safari, pick a video from Photos, compress, and save the smaller MP4 back. No app to install.
How much can you compress a video?
Most phone and screen recordings are far larger than they need to be for sharing. A one-minute 1080p clip from an iPhone can run 100-150 MB, while the same clip re-encoded with modern settings drops to a fraction of that, with no visible difference on a phone or laptop screen. How far you can go depends on the footage and the resolution you keep.
Why compress a video in the first place?
Video is the heaviest media you deal with. A few minutes of 4K phone footage runs into the gigabytes, which is why files bounce off chat apps, stall on slow uploads, and quietly eat your storage. Compressing brings the size down so a clip is easy to send, fast to upload, and light to store, without making it unwatchable.
What decides how small it gets
Compression lowers the bitrate - how much data each second of video uses - and, at lower resolutions, the frame size. How far you can push it depends on the footage:
- Compresses the most: Talking-head video, screen recordings, and slideshows - little changes frame to frame.
- Compresses less: Fast motion, film grain, and busy, detailed scenes.
- Smaller still: Dropping 1080p to 720p or 480p roughly halves the size at each step.
H.264, H.265, and which codec actually compresses
Codecs do the work: they analyze each frame and throw away redundant visual data. H.265 (HEVC) can be 20-75% smaller than H.264 at the same quality, especially at 1080p and 4K - but very few browsers can encode it locally. So Typist encodes H.264, which plays on every phone, browser, and chat app, and falls back to VP9 in WebM only where your browser cannot do H.264. The codec is chosen for you - no settings to get wrong.
Three presets, no guesswork
Open Compression settings after you add a file and pick the trade-off that fits:
- Balanced (1080p): Stays sharp for review and re-sharing. The safe default.
- Smaller (720p): Comfortable for email, Slack, and quick uploads.
- Tiny (480p): Smallest output - the one that squeezes a clip under a Discord or 8 MB limit.
Works with every major format
Drop in MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, M4V, or TS, with no conversion step first, up to 2 GB per file. Need the words too? Transcribe your video to text in 99+ languages, or extract the audio as MP3.
Compressing video for Discord, email, and more
Size limits, formats, quality, and privacy
Your video never leaves your device
Most online compressors upload your file to a server, process it there, and ask you to trust their data policy. Typist does not. Everything runs inside this browser tab, so your video stays with you from start to finish.
No upload
Your file is read locally and never sent over the network.
Nothing stored
No copy is saved on any server. Close the tab and it is gone.
Private by design
We never see, scan, or train on the videos you compress.
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