Help get Compressor on Google Play!
Compressor is almost available on Google Play, but to do so, Google requires that we have at least 12 testers for 14 days. If you want to see Compressor on Google Play, head to https://groups.google.com/g/compressor-beta-testing to join the testing group and install!
Every. Single. Video Compression app on the play store SUCKS, which is why I created Compressor!
Faster than every single compression app on the Play Store. Period.
Uses native Media3 API, not another slow, bulky FFMpeg wrapper
No third party libraries
No invasive permissions (no storage, no internet etc)
Ad free
Super lightweight (< 10MB)
Completely native Kotlin (no React Native slop here)
Works on Android 7.0 and up
Compared to the first non-sponsored search result for “video compressor” on the Play Store, Panda Video Compressor, with over 10 million downloads, Compressor is 117x faster. When tested on my Pixel 8 Pro compressing a 200MB 4K video down to 1080p30 with the Medium preset in both apps, Compressor took only 11 seconds, Panda took almost 22 minutes.
Furthermore, using the highly optimised native Media3 API, Compressor is able to compress that same 200MB video down to just 2.2MB at 720p30, with virtually no difference in quality on a 6” phone screen.
I don’t currently have $25 USD to sign up for a Google Play Console account, so you can get Compressor completely free from GitHub releases (or build it yourself with Android Studio) at https://github.com/JoshAtticus/Compressor/releases/latest
If you like Compressor, please also consider donating even just a few dollars so I can get it onto the Play Store! I will never paywall features or put ads in the app. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/joshatticus
My blog has a new feature, syncing comments from wasteof.money! Comments made on new posts about blog posts here will be synced to the appropriate post on my blog. There’s already some synced comments on the post I’ve reposted if you want to see it in action, comments are synced every 15 minutes but I can make it 30 minutes, an hour etc if needed. The bot may be used to sync comments from other places at a later date, but for now it’s just wasteof.money. https://blog.joshattic.us/bot
edit: oops, it worked on my local testing environment but not in production, it should work soon
edit 2: fixed!
New Blog Post — Cheap action camera with 2014 sensor vs 2014 flagship smartphone (Camera Comparison)
https://blog.joshattic.us/posts/2026-01-03-cheap-action-camera-vs-galaxy-s5
New Blog Post — Cheap action camera with 2014 sensor vs 2014 flagship smartphone (Camera Comparison)
https://blog.joshattic.us/posts/2026-01-03-cheap-action-camera-vs-galaxy-s5
Someone has FINALLY said something about fake 5G. Non-standalone 5G was a mistake and I hate it and we should kill all carriers that label 5G NSA as 5G when it’s more like 4.5G https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSIin43UZ2s
I lost $40 on ts listing I only sold one iPad
(got 20% off only paid $72 AUD)
I released my joshatticus.is-a.dev domain from my old website for literally 15 minutes and someone else has taken it and added it to their github pages, like, can I have it back???
Completely confused as to why this blog post has brought the most traffic to my blog in a single day, it literally got 150 page hits within an hour, my plausible is showing a 1,200% increase in traffic lmao 
New Blog Post — The JoshAtticus blog has new features!
https://blog.joshattic.us/posts/2025-12-28-new-blog-features
New Blog Post - The very weird world of Allwinner V3 action cameras (+ happy new year!)
https://blog.joshattic.us/posts/2025-12-31-allwinner-v3-action-cameras-happy-new-year
New Blog Post — The JoshAtticus blog has new features!
https://blog.joshattic.us/posts/2025-12-28-new-blog-features
they’re ramping up the AI debt collectors, they keep trying to take the money every day now, like good luck lmao, I deactivated the card they’re trying to charge.
that feeling when it's time for my monthly call from my bank telling me that they blocked a fradulent charge from google cloud for $60 (guess who isn’t paying for that because I got a free trial, set a budget to not go over the free trial, then google ignored it, billed me $162, halved it when I asked them to write it off, then last month managed to steal $18 from me the instant I put it on my card)
I also remember 2 years ago with aws, I got a free trial, turns out the free trial was $0.60, which is a bit better than a $162 trial, but when I contacted amazon and asked if they could write it off because I didn't know it costed money I thought it was free, they said they can't write off the whole thing AND PUT ME ON A PAYMENT PLAN FOR 4 MONTHLY PAYMENTS OF 15 CENTS A MONTH LMAO, like yes amazon, I accept my monthly penance. Please enjoy your 15 cents, do not spend it all in one place.
that feeling when it's time for my monthly call from my bank telling me that they blocked a fradulent charge from google cloud for $60 (guess who isn’t paying for that because I got a free trial, set a budget to not go over the free trial, then google ignored it, billed me $162, halved it when I asked them to write it off, then last month managed to steal $18 from me the instant I put it on my card)
I also remember 2 years ago with aws, I got a free trial, turns out the free trial was $0.60, which is a bit better than a $162 trial, but when I contacted amazon and asked if they could write it off because I didn't know it costed money I thought it was free, they said they can't write off the whole thing AND PUT ME ON A PAYMENT PLAN FOR 4 MONTHLY PAYMENTS OF 15 CENTS A MONTH LMAO, like yes amazon, I accept my monthly penance. Please enjoy your 15 cents, do not spend it all in one place.
i think this might be my first time using my kobo in december but idk my memory sucks
yippee yahoo I won an academic excellence award for getting an A average grade across all my classes :3
I got an A in everything except math which I got a B in
it’s not dead again it’s a temporary outage fr this time the power to the server died
yay meower is back up, who knew 5 hours was so long? I don’t think I could go more than a week without meower