Tiny Click

Make photos tiny.

Smaller copies of your iPhone photos, made right on the iPhone. Nothing leaves the phone, and nothing is deleted until you say so.

Get Tiny Click on GitHubSee how it works

Free, and not on the App Store. You build it with Xcode.

Tune: a before and after slider, with the copy at 1.1 MB from 4.1 MB
The home screen: quick picks and the last run, 73% smaller

72% smaller.
Same photos.

Tiny Click took 49 real photos from an iPhone 16 from 170.7 MB down to 47.6 MB, with its default settings. On screen, they look the same.

See how it was measured

See the saving first.

Slide between before and after. The size on screen is the real size of the copy, worked out on your iPhone, not a guess.

  • HEIC, JPG, or Smallest
  • Up to 200 photos at once
  • Quality and size to taste
Tune: a before and after slider, with the copy at 1.1 MB from 4.1 MB

Can you tell which is which?

Drag the line. On the left, the original at 4.2 MB. On the right, Tiny Click's copy at 1.1 MB.

Tiny Click's copy of a drawn lake scene, 1.1 MBThe original lake scene, 4.2 MB

A drawn sample scene. The copy is a real encode by the app's engine, shown here as WebP.

Keeps every detail.

Each copy keeps the capture date, place, camera, favorite, and albums of its original, so it sits in the same spot in Photos. HDR highlights still glow.

Check every copy.

Tiny Click reads each copy back from your library before it counts. Copies that save too little start unchecked. You choose what to save, and when the originals go.

Review: six copies, each 73% smaller, ready to save

Find what takes space.

Every photo and video, biggest first. Select the top 100 in one tap, or drag across a row. Then delete them, or make them tiny.

Library: every photo and video by size, with the ten biggest selected

Every run, remembered.

See what each run saved, what is already freed, and what is still to free.

History: 18.4 MB smaller in all, 18.4 MB still to free

No server. No account.
No tracking.

Everything happens on your iPhone. Your photos never leave it.

Run it on your iPhone.

Tiny Click is free, and the code is on GitHub. You build it with Xcode and run it on your own phone.

Get Tiny Click on GitHub

With a free Apple ID, run it from Xcode again every 7 days.

  • A Mac with Xcode
  • An iPhone on iOS 17 or later
  • A free Apple ID
  1. Clone the codegit clone https://github.com/kothariji/tinyclick.git
  2. Open TinyClick.xcodeproj
  3. Choose your iPhone, then press Run
Every step is in the README

Good to know: a copy is a new photo to Photos. It shows as saved by Tiny Click, so groups by app lose it once the original is deleted. Photos scans its faces again over a few nights, and captions and keywords stay with the original.