How long until your iPhone runs out of room?
Plug in your current free space, your photo and video habits, and your recording mode. See the date your storage runs out, and how many extra months HEVCut buys you by re-encoding to HEVC.
Typical iPhone user: 20–60 photos/week.
Typical: 5–30 min/week. Family events, trips spike higher.
Estimates use Apple's typical H.264 / HEVC bitrates and a 3 MB HEIC photo average. Actual savings depend on content and your camera settings.
Real bitrates. Honest estimates.
Calculations use Apple's actual H.264 and HEVC bitrates per recording mode. 4K 30 fps at H.264 is roughly 170 MB/minute; HEVC cuts that to about 85 MB/minute.
HEIC photos average around 3 MB on iPhone. HEVCut's photo compressor outputs a smaller HEIC at the same visual quality, halving the per-photo footprint.
Re-encodes the videos already on your phone to HEVC, shrinks photos, and clears duplicates. The compression runs on-device using Apple's hardware encoder.
From estimate to extra months in three steps.
- 01
Plug in your numbers
Free storage left, photos per week, video minutes per week, and the recording mode you usually use. Defaults match a typical iPhone user.
- 02
Read the forecast
See how soon your iPhone fills up at your current pace, then the same forecast assuming HEVCut compresses your library and ongoing recordings.
- 03
Reclaim what you already have
Install HEVCut and let it re-encode your existing library in one pass. The forecast you saw becomes reality.
Common questions.
- How accurate is the forecast?
- It uses the same bitrate tables Apple publishes for iPhone recording, so the per-minute numbers are accurate. The accuracy of the forecast itself depends on how steady your weekly habits are. Travel, family events, and long trips will spike the rate.
- Why does the recording mode matter so much?
- Recording mode is the single biggest variable. 4K 60 fps records at roughly 400 MB per minute (H.264). 1080p 30 fps records at around 60 MB per minute. A typical week of video can vary 6 to 7 times in size depending only on the setting.
- Does HEVCut also compress existing videos, not just new ones?
- Yes. The whole point is to re-encode the library you already have. The forecast shows your future weekly footprint after switching on the compressor; the bigger one-time win is reclaiming gigabytes from videos already sitting on your phone.
- What if my iPhone is already set to HEVC?
- Modern iPhones record HEVC by default, so new videos are already smaller than the H.264 estimate. HEVCut still finds older H.264 videos (often shared in, screen recordings, etc.) and re-optimizes HEVC originals for a further 20 to 30% savings.
- Can I really trust an on-device tool to do this safely?
- Everything runs locally with Apple's media frameworks. Originals can be stashed in the Personal Vault before compression so you can restore them anytime. Compressed files replace originals in Photos; the originals also go to Recently Deleted for 30 days as a safety net.
Free up space. Keep your memories.
HEVCut runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Everything stays on-device, offline. Try a few compressions before committing to Pro.
Try it on the App Store