Compress videos up to 80% smaller with no visible quality loss. SVT-AV1 & VP9 engines, 100% offline, privacy-first. Windows & macOS.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
South KoreaPlatforms
- Mac
- Windows
HandBrake Alternatives
One of the most popular alternatives to HandBrake is FFmpeg, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are Avidemux, File Converter, Shutter Encoder and Video Compression. You're spoiled for choice with Video Converters like HandBrake: we list more than 100 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, the web and Android.
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VideoRoast is a video converter and compressor for Mac and Windows. Batch-convert clips between 8 formats with hardware acceleration, entirely on your own machine. VideoRoast is included in every getapps.cafe subscription.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
United States
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FreeCompress.video makes video files smaller inside the browser. The file is read from your disk and re-encoded by your device's own video encoder, so nothing is uploaded and a 2 GB recording goes through the same way as a 20 MB clip.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online
- United States
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Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
A self-hosted live streaming transcoder that converts RTSP, RTMP and HTTP streams into reliable, low-latency HLS — with automatic failover, on-demand streaming & full control over your infrastructure.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
Spain
EU
FitToMB is a free, privacy-friendly web app that compresses videos to a precise target size. It’s perfect for hitting Discord’s 10MB free limit or email attachment limits like 25MB. Just drag and drop a video, choose 8/10/25MB or any custom size, and get a clean MP4 or AV1 with...
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
AVI-Core is a lightweight, open-source media toolkit for Windows that provides fast image, video, and audio utilities through both a command-line interface and Windows Explorer context-menu integration.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
Download videos, music, or both from any website and instantly export to the format you want. On your Mac. Just like that.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Spain
- EU
Consul automatically converts files when you change their extension. Rename IMG_0073.HEIC to IMG_0073.jpg and the file is instantly converted to a JPEG file – works with images, videos, audio, and more.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Homebrew
Germany- EU
A free, open-source online file converter and compressor for images, documents, audio and video — privacy-first, no account required, and fully self-hostable.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Self-Hosted
- Docker
- Germany
- EU
Cine Encoder is an application that allow to convert media files while preserving HDR metadata.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Windows
- Arch Linux
- Debian
- Fedora
- CentOS
- Haiku
Expi is a native desktop media converter powered by FFmpeg. It gives you the full power of FFmpeg 200+ video, audio, and image formats through a clean graphical interface, without ever touching the terminal.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
- Mac
Canada
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