Compress Audio & Video

Pick a quality, keep what matters. Free, fast, no signup.

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Same video, smaller number next to it: Flippy re-encodes your file with a modern codec at the quality you pick: low, medium or high: and hands back something you can actually send. Camera footage typically gives up 30–70% of its size before quality visibly suffers; screen recordings squeeze even harder. Free, in your browser, files gone within an hour.

The honest mechanics: compression works by re-encoding, and how much a file can give depends on how generously it was encoded in the first place. A phone clip has plenty to spare; a file that's already been squeezed twice does not: and we'd rather tell you that here than let a preset pretend otherwise.

How to compress a file

  1. 1

    Drop your audio or video file into the compressor above.

  2. 2

    Pick a level: medium is the sweet spot most people can't tell from the original; low squeezes hardest.

  3. 3

    Hit Compress and download the smaller file.

Why shrink it here

One re-encode, not a stack

Your file is re-encoded once with a modern codec at the quality you pick. No hidden second passes quietly spending your quality budget.

Presets on the polite side

Medium is tuned to the point where most people cannot spot the difference from the original. Low exists for when the number matters more than the pixels, and we say so.

Exact sizes on tap

The compress-to pages measure your clip and compute the precise bitrate for an 8, 10, 25 or 50 MB budget. No trial and error.

No watermark, no signup

Free for everyday use, and files delete themselves from our servers within an hour.

The three dials every compressor turns

All video compression comes down to three dials: bitrate (how many bits per second the picture gets), resolution (how many pixels those bits must cover) and codec efficiency (how cleverly they are spent). Everything else is marketing.

Flippy's presets mainly turn the bitrate dial and let a modern encoder spend the budget where the picture needs it. If you would rather turn the resolution dial, the resizer scales 1080p down to 720p or below, and the two combine happily.

What no dial can do is compress the same file twice for free: the first pass spends the easy savings. Compress once, from the best source you have, and keep that original.

Need to hit an exact size?

Sometimes the job isn't "smaller": it's "under the limit". These pages measure your clip's length and compute the exact bitrate that fits the budget, no settings to fiddle with:

8MB video compressor Compress video to 10 MB Compress video for email Compress video to 50 MB

8 MB is Discord's classic free-tier cap; 25 MB clears most email attachment limits. Long video at a small budget is physics, not settings: trim it first, then compress.

Questions people ask

How much smaller will my file get?

Most camera footage lands 30–70% smaller at the medium preset before quality visibly suffers. Screen recordings compress harder; already-tight files have less to give. Audio depends on the format: a WAV can lose 90%.

Will I see the quality difference?

At medium, most people can't. At low, you might: that preset exists for when the size matters more than the pixels. Either way it's one re-encode, not a stack of them.

Why didn't my WAV or FLAC shrink much?

Because the compressor keeps your format, and some formats resist: a compressed WAV is still uncompressed PCM inside. For a dramatic cut, convert to a lossy format instead: the converter is one click away and we'll say the same thing there.

Can I compress to an exact file size?

Yes: use the compress-to pages (8, 10, 25 or 50 MB). They divide your size budget by the clip's duration to hit the target bitrate precisely.

Do you keep my files?

No: originals and outputs auto-delete within about an hour of processing. The security page walks through the whole lifecycle.

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