Compress Video for WhatsApp
WhatsApp compresses videos automatically when you send them, often hurting quality. Pre-compressing gives you more control.
Drop your video here
or browse your files
Processed on your device — nothing is uploaded
Avoids WhatsApp's own aggressive auto-compression, which can blur video further
Gets long clips under the attachment size limit so they send as a video, not a document
Faster to send over mobile data since the file is already small
WhatsApp file size limits
WhatsApp Status videos are limited to 30 seconds; regular chat video attachments cap around 16MB on most plans.
Use the 'Strong' or 'Superb' preset to comfortably fit under WhatsApp's attachment limits without WhatsApp re-compressing it further.
How it works
Step 1
Upload
Drop your file in — up to 500MB free.
Step 2
Pick a quality
Basic, Strong, or Superb compression.
Step 3
Download
Get your smaller video in seconds.
Frequently Asked Questions
WhatsApp automatically compresses every video you send to save bandwidth, and its algorithm isn't tuned for quality — pre-compressing with a controlled setting usually looks better than letting WhatsApp do it.
You can send it as a 'Document' instead of a media attachment, which allows larger files and skips WhatsApp's re-compression — but it won't play inline in the chat.
No, Status length is capped at 30 seconds per segment regardless of file size — compression only affects the file size, not the duration.
The underlying limits are similar, but compression behavior can vary slightly by app version — pre-compressing to a smaller size avoids relying on WhatsApp's own processing either way.
WhatsApp still applies its own compression pass to any media sent through chat — sending as a 'Document' is the only way to bypass that entirely.