Made with AI
I created Flyweight by working with Claude, Anthropic’s AI. I think it’s really cool that we made it together, and I want to be upfront about that: this one isn’t here to showcase my coding.
Drop a video in, get a smaller one out
Flyweight is a free video compressor for Windows 10 and 11. Drop a video onto its window, or right-click any video and pick a level.
There are three levels. Light keeps the full resolution and frame rate, Balanced brings anything larger down to 1080p, and Maximum goes down to 720p at 30 fps. You can also save your own presets, including one that fits a video under a site’s upload limit.
The original video is never changed. The smaller copy is saved right next to it.
Small on purpose
The app is a single program of about 150 KB. It needs no admin rights, and nothing runs in the background or at startup. It uses the ffmpeg already on your PC, and offers to install it if there isn’t one.
Your videos stay on your PC. Flyweight has no accounts or tracking, and the code is public on GitHub.