MediaKit; 152 native media tools in one app, fully on-device, Universal Purchase covers Mac + iPhone. This week 50% off.
Most Mac users I know have a graveyard of utilities for media tasks: Handbrake for video, ImageOptim for images, Keka for archives, Preview for PDFs (until it can't do the thing you need), some web tool for HEIC → JPG, and CloudConvert for whatever's left. Plus the constant low-grade anxiety of uploading personal files to a random website. MediaKit is one app with 152 native tools for video, audio, image, PDF, and archive work, all running on-device via Apple's own frameworks (AVFoundation, CoreImage, PDFKit, Vision, Speech). Drop a file, MediaKit picks the right tool. No uploads. No account. No tracking. It's a Universal Purchase, so the same buy works on Mac and iPhone. Same app, same Pro unlock, every Apple device you sign in with. A few things that matter on Mac specifically: Apple Silicon native. Optimized for M1/M2/M3/M4. RAR v5 extraction runs natively, no x86 emulation, no command-line gymnastics. Menu bar access to every tool. Click the icon, pick a tool, drop a file. Without ever opening the main window. Shortcuts integration, six built-in actions (compress video, convert images, merge PDFs, create ZIPs, extract text, run OCR) you can chain into any workflow. ProRes + HEVC on video. EBU R128 normalization on audio. Vector-preserving PDF edits. The kind of details Mac users actually notice. What's in it: Video: Compress, convert, trim, crop, merge, stabilize, color-adjust. MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, WebM, M4V, ProRes, HEVC. 21 export presets (YouTube, Instagram, Discord, broadcast LUFS). Audio: MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC, AIFF, AAC, ALAC. Extract from video. EBU R128 normalization. ML noise reduction. On-device speech transcription via Apple's Speech framework. Image: PNG, JPG, HEIC, WebP, TIFF, GIF, AVIF, RAW. Compress, convert, AI upscale, background removal (Apple Vision), OCR, strip EXIF metadata. PDF: Merge, split, compress, encrypt, sign, OCR. Watermarks, page numbers, headers/footers. Side-by-side comparison. Archives: Create ZIP, TAR, TAR.GZ, GZIP, XZ, BZIP2. Extract RAR v4 and v5. AES-256 via AppleArchive. Positioning: Not trying to beat Handbrake on Handbrake's strengths, if you're a power user who lives in Handbrake's encoding presets, keep using it. MediaKit is for the person juggling 5 utilities who wants 1, or who's been uploading files to CloudConvert and would like to stop. Same goes for Permute (Permute is excellent for what it does), ImageOptim, Keka, iMazing HEIC Converter, PDF Expert. MediaKit isn't replacing any single one on its strongest dimension; it's consolidating the surface area into one native app. Privacy: Every operation runs on-device. No servers. No analytics. No third-party SDKs. No account. Sandboxed with hardened runtime. Works offline. Files never leave your machine. Free tier: Full 3-day trial of all 152 tools. After that, 5 core tools stay free forever (Video Compress, Image Compress, Image Resize, Audio Convert, PDF Compress). So you can actually try the full app before deciding. Cost. Regular pricing: Monthly: $3.99 Yearly: $22.99 Lifetime: $39.99 Offer for this week, 50% off, through Sunday: Yearly $11.49 → code REDDITYEARLY50 https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6761451361&code=REDDITYEARLY50 Lifetime $19.99 → code REDDITLIFETIME50 https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6761451361&code=REDDITLIFETIME50 App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6761451361 One Universal Purchase covers Mac and iPhone, buy once, use everywhere you're signed in. Thanks for reading this far.
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if i may. i would never ever do a subscription for it. i do understand your reasoning, i'm a dev myself and have to make a living. but maybe be situation aware, a subscr. for a tool? you will experience heavy churn rates. people will question it everytime it refreshes. lifetime can be higher. don't make people weight it... my 2 cents and, meant nicely. make no mistake *edit for clearer wordings
Useful, thanks. Utility-vs-service is the right frame, MediaKit is a tool, not a workflow you live in, and the monthly tier has been the weakest in the data so far. Won’t yank subscriptions overnight (mid-cycle users), but lifetime-leaning is probably where this lands. Appreciate the directness.
thank you for the reply. i understand better.
Pls add different format conversions btw ebooks
Those are on the todo list. I will bump that higher up 😄
I like this
Thanks mate
Love the clean UI, great work!
Thanks, I tried to make it intuitive as possible.
May you add metadata cleanup not only for photos but also for the other file types? Would be great!
Thats totally doable. I'll add it to my backlog, and start on implementing on next week.
I'm what way it can't do what other apps do. I didn't get it.
Pitch isn’t that MediaKit does anything Handbrake or Permute or ImageOptim can’t. It’s that it does the combined job of 5+ utilities in one app, fully on-device, with the same Pro unlock working on both Mac and iPhone. If you’re already happy with the tools you use, you probably don’t need it. If you’re juggling several or uploading files to web tools, that’s the use case.
I think there are still some bugs. I am trying to compress a video from photo library but after I select video nothing happens
Odd, i will check and fix it asap. edit. Found it, thanks for the report. Picking large or iCloud videos from the photo library could silently stall, with no progress shown. Fixed: it now imports reliably and shows an "Importing…" indicator. Will be in the next update.
hi, I thought the offer was open till sunday. I tried purchasing lifetime, but the discount code isn't working. It is showing off of the original price not the discounted one.
It should be working, just tested. Please try again: https://apps.apple.com/redeem/?ctx=offercodes&id=6761451361&code=REDDITLIFETIME50
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Missed the deal...
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Hey, do you mean AppStore or promolinks? Promotion was in last week.
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Thanks! Much appreciated.