HEVCut press kit.
HEVCut frees up iPhone storage by compressing the photos and videos already in your library and clearing out the duplicates and clutter around them — without deleting a single memory.
Alejandro Pacheco — support@hevcut.com
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- App
- HEVCut (listed on the App Store as “Video Compressor - HEVCut”)
- What it is
- An app that frees up storage by compressing the photos and videos already in your library, and clearing out the duplicates and clutter around them.
- Price
- Free to download, including a limited number of free compressions. HEVCut Pro removes the limit: $24.99/year, $39.99 one-time, or $9.99/week.
- Platforms
- iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Requires iOS 26 or later, macOS 26 or later.
- Released
- 5 November 2024. Current version 8.4.3, released 19 August 2026.
- Developer
- Alejandro Pacheco, independent, London, UK.
- Category
- Photo & Video / Utilities. Rated 4+.
- Languages
- 26, including English, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese.
- Website
- https://hevcut.com
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HEVCut frees up iPhone storage by compressing the photos and videos already in your library and clearing out the duplicates and clutter around them — without deleting a single memory.
HEVCut is a storage app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac that shrinks the photos and videos already in your camera roll instead of asking you to delete them. It re-encodes media in place, typically cutting file sizes by 50 to 80%, and pairs that with tools for the things quietly eating space around it: duplicates, burst sequences, Live Photos, and screenshots. Everything runs on the device — no uploads, no account, no server. It is built for people who keep hitting “iPhone Storage Full” and would rather not pay for another iCloud tier: photographers with thousands of bursts, travellers, and anyone carrying a decade of camera roll. HEVCut is free to download, with a Pro upgrade at $24.99 a year or $39.99 once.
Every iPhone eventually runs out of room, and the advice is always the same: delete something, or pay a little more every month. Neither is much of an answer. A camera roll is not a junk drawer — it is a decade of birthdays, holidays, and ordinary days that nobody wants to triage from a storage warning.
HEVCut starts from a different premise: most of that space is not memories, it is inefficiency. A video shot a few years ago is stored in a far less efficient format than the same phone would produce today, and a photo saved out of a message can be many times larger than it needs to be. HEVCut re-encodes that media in place — same photo, same video, same album, same date — and hands the difference back as free space. Savings are typically 50 to 80% per file, and the app shows the before and after so the decision is never blind.
Around the compressor sit the tools for everything else. A duplicate finder groups identical and near-identical shots, including burst sequences, and pre-selects the copies worth losing while keeping the best one. A swipe view turns cleanup into a fast left-to-delete, right-to-keep pass. And a scanner surfaces the media that accumulates without anyone choosing it: screenshots, social downloads, and the video halves of Live Photos.
None of it leaves the device. HEVCut has no servers, no account, and no upload step — the work happens on the phone, which is both a privacy position and the reason it keeps working on a plane. Originals stay recoverable until the moment you confirm you want the space back.
HEVCut is made by Alejandro Pacheco, an independent developer in London, and has been on the App Store since November 2024. It is free to download; a Pro upgrade removes the limit on how much you can compress.
- 01HEVCut compresses the videos and photos already in your library, typically cutting file sizes by 50 to 80% while leaving them looking the same.
- 02A duplicate finder groups identical and near-identical shots, including burst sequences, and pre-selects the copies worth deleting while keeping the best one.
- 03A swipe view turns library cleanup into a left-to-delete, right-to-keep pass through the photos most likely to be clutter.
- 04HEVCut finds the media that accumulates on its own — screenshots, social downloads, and the video component of Live Photos — and clears it in bulk.
- 05Long videos can be split into shareable parts without re-encoding, so the quality is untouched.
- 06Everything runs on the device: nothing is uploaded, no account is required, and the app works with no internet connection.
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hevcut-press-kit.zip (12 MB)HEVCut is made by Alejandro Pacheco, an independent developer based in London. He has been building software for over eight years and has shipped more than twenty iOS and Mac apps since 2024, mostly small utilities that do one unglamorous job well. HEVCut started with his own camera roll: a phone permanently at “Storage Almost Full”, and no interest in renting more space for it.
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