CompressThing
Compress images and videos locally on Windows
Details
- External ID
- 1257974
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- CompressThing
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Productivity
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
CompressThing is a Windows 11 app for reducing image and video file sizes before upload, delivery, or storage. Add media to a visible queue, adjust compression settings, and save compressed copies locally while keeping the originals. Free manual compression is available in the Microsoft Store.
Enrichment
- Theme
- document and PDF utility tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- local image and video compression tool for windows
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A desktop GUI wrapper around standard local compression libraries or CLI tools like FFmpeg, MozJPEG, and oxipng using Tauri or Electron/WinUI.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 176 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #63 of 177 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 307 days after the earliest competitor.
- CompressHome · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- FileSlim · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- File Compressor · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- CompressMyPhotos · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- GetCompress · ph · 2026-06-28 · 327 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- NeatCompress · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- InImageCompressor · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Video Compress Kit · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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