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Video Compress
✓ verifiedFreemium
Free-tier browser video compressor supporting 40+ formats with credit-based limits on file size and monthly usage.
1.4M visits/mo1.1K saves
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Winxvideo
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Multimedia software suite for GPU-accelerated DVD ripping, AI video/image upscaling, and iPhone data transfer.
1.4K saves
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AVCLabs
✓ verifiedFreemium
Suite of AI tools for upscaling, enhancing, blurring, and editing video and photos, aimed at creators and restorers.
183K visits/mo3.7K saves
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Video AI by Topaz Labs
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Desktop and cloud AI software for upscaling, sharpening, denoising, and restoring photos and video at professional quality.
3.0M visits/mo7.0K saves
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Streamrun
✓ verifiedFree trial
Cloud relay adding disconnect failover, multistreaming, and vertical reframing between a creator's encoder and platforms like Twitch.
12K visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0/mo (30 credits/month, up to 1GB per file)
Basic: $9/mo (750 credits/month, up to 10GB per file)
Pro: $29/mo (5000 credits/month)
Premium: $59/mo (7500 credits/month)
No public pricing
No public pricing
Free trial available
Topaz Image Web: $12/mo (introductory, up to 32MP, unlimited cloud rendering)
Astra Standard: $19/mo (introductory, 400 credits/month, 4K video output)
Topaz Studio: $34/mo billed annually (all apps, 300 monthly video cloud credits)
Topaz Studio: $69/mo (all apps, 300 monthly video cloud credits)
Topaz Photo: $39/mo (photo restoration and enhancement models)
Topaz Gigapixel: $29/mo (image upscaling models)
Streamrun Go: $25/mo (up to 2 destinations, 14-day trial)
Streamrun Pro: from $0.39/hour (pay-as-you-go, unlimited destinations)
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Target file-size or advanced bitrate compression settings
- ✦Support for 40+ video formats
- ✦Cloud-based processing with no software install
- ✦Automatic file deletion after processing
- ✦Companion tools: crop, trim, video-to-MP3, video-to-text
- ✦Credit-based monthly usage tiers
- ✦DVD ripping and 1:1 backup, including 99-title discs
- ✦GPU-accelerated video conversion and compression
- ✦AI video upscaling to 4K/8K/10K
- ✦AI video stabilization and denoising
- ✦Frame-rate interpolation up to 480fps
- ✦iPhone/iPad photo, music, and video transfer
- ✦Mac versions for DVD ripping and HD video conversion
- ✦Video upscaling to HD/4K/8K
- ✦Facial detail restoration
- ✦Automatic face, object and license plate blurring
- ✦Watermark and object removal
- ✦Image colorization and denoising
- ✦Video stabilization
- ✦AVCLabs Media MCP server for AI agents
- ✦AI image and video upscaling up to 4K/32MP
- ✦Denoising and sharpening models
- ✦Photo restoration and dust/scratch removal
- ✦Face enhancement and recovery
- ✦Background removal and colorization
- ✦Cloud rendering with concurrency limits
- ✦Bundled multi-app Studio subscription
- ✦Auto-reconnect failover to keep a stream live through disconnects
- ✦Simultaneous multistreaming to several platforms from one source
- ✦Automatic dual-format output (horizontal plus vertical)
- ✦AI-based background noise cancellation
- ✦Visual workflow editor and REST API access (Pro)
- ✦Mid-stream device switching without interrupting the broadcast
Use cases
- →Shrinking video files to fit email attachment limits
- →Compressing videos to meet Discord's upload size limit
- →Reducing storage costs for large video libraries
- →Preparing 4K footage for faster social media uploads
- →Backing up a home DVD collection to a hard drive or NAS
- →Upscaling and restoring old or AI-generated videos and photos
- →Shrinking large 4K/8K video files for sharing online
- →Transferring iPhone media to a computer without iTunes
- →Stabilizing shaky phone or drone footage
- →Improving low-resolution video quality
- →Blurring faces and plates for privacy
- →Restoring and colorizing old photos and footage
- →Removing watermarks and unwanted objects
- →Photographers restoring or upscaling old photos
- →Video editors upscaling footage to 4K
- →Studios batch-enhancing large image libraries
- →Creators removing backgrounds or colorizing images
- →IRL streamers needing stable connections while mobile
- →Creators simultaneously broadcasting to Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, and Kick
- →Productions building custom routing/overlay workflows via API
- →Streamers wanting a mobile-optimized vertical feed without a second encoder
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