Get a video under 20 MB without uploading it anywhere

Drop your video here

or click to browse. MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV, AVI and most common formats, with no size cap. Stays on your computer.

Discord stops you at 20 MB, email around 25, and the video off your phone is ten times that. Drop it here, pick how much quality to keep — or the exact number it has to beat — and your own computer encodes it down. No account stands in the way and no watermark lands on the result.

Measured at 1.1 GB in

The largest file we have put through end to end: 1.1 GB of video, 18.7 MB out. Your computer’s memory is the only ceiling.

Your machine does the encoding

The video never travels. Kill the Wi-Fi mid-encode and it still finishes, which you can verify on any tool.

Shortcuts for the two real limits

One press fills in Discord’s 20 MB or email’s safe 15 MB; any other number can be typed.

Refuses to wreck the picture

A limit this length of video cannot reach gets you the honest minimum instead of an unwatchable file.

Compressing a video, start to finish

  1. Choose High, Balanced or Small — how much of the picture survives, with Balanced as the everyday answer.
  2. Chasing a hard number instead? Open the size limit and press Discord, press Email, or type your own MB.
  3. Drop the video and let it grind; longer footage takes longer.
  4. Save the MP4 it hands back.

Why free tiers cap you at 1 GB and this does not

A conventional online compressor receives your video, stores it, encodes it on rented machines, then serves the result back. Every one of those steps costs the operator money in proportion to your file, which is exactly why their free tier stops around a gigabyte and why the output so often carries a watermark or a nag to upgrade. Running the encoder inside your browser removes the file from that economics entirely: there is nothing for us to store, no encoding fleet to rent, and therefore nothing to meter, brand or upsell.

Frequently asked questions

How big a video can I drop in?

As big as your computer can hold in memory — the heaviest file we have measured end to end was 1.1GB, and it came out at 18.7MB. There is no tier that stops at a gigabyte, because there is no server whose bill would grow with your file.

How do I fit a video under Discord’s upload limit?

Open the size limit panel, press the Discord shortcut — it fills in 20MB — and drop your file. The encoder picks the best quality that still lands under that number, and the guide linked below explains where Discord’s limits come from.

Why did it take minutes for my long video?

Because every frame is decoded and encoded again, on your own hardware. A phone clip of a minute or two is quick; a half-hour screen recording is real work. The trade is that the file never travels: no upload time, and no queue behind other people’s videos.

What comes out the other end?

An MP4 encoded with H.264, whatever went in — MOV, WebM, MKV, AVI, WMV or FLV. That pairing is the one that plays everywhere, from an old TV to a chat app, which is the point of shrinking a video to share it.

What happens if the video simply cannot fit under my limit?

Two honest refusals instead of a ruined file: a video too long for the number you typed is told the minimum size that length can reach, and a limit that would destroy the picture is declined with a suggestion to raise it.

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