8player User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience50.5% of reviews
Neutral7.1% of reviews
Negative experience42.4% of reviews

~ Based on 99 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is 8player Safe?

8player appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for 8player is 80/100.

This assessment is based on 33 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.3/5.

Safety Analysis

81.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
15.2% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 33 App Store ratings for 8player.

Is 8player Legit?

8player is no longer available in the App Store. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for 8player is 35/100.

Based on 35 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Score capped because this app is no longer listed.

Top reviews

Annoying time wasting on bugs

Suddenly it stopped seeing any of my servers/ NAS. Reset all h/w, s/w routers etc. Others app can see it fine, not this, it just stopped. Now useless to me.

Free Version Is Very Limited!

4 photo limit on free version. Seriously?! So, like a dummy, I went and bought the “Pro” version only to find it doesn’t display certain photos correctly so the app is useless to me. <sigh>. Ya got me. Waste of money and time! Buyer Beware!!!

Did not stream to Arcam CDS50

This is a great little player app, but again another app that can’t stream Internet radio streams to the Arcam CDS50, since MusicLife died after iOS 26.1. It can stream local server files, but no Internet streams (it only plays on the iOS phone speaker), I don’t know what the big deal is and why only MusicLife can do this which doesn’t work anymore, but it’s really annoying.
Show more

Excellent app! Does everything i need it to!

Excellent app! Does everything i need it to!

It doesn’t work

No videos can be played from iPhone . This app is useless

Works great

I’m really liking your app. It’s very user-friendly. I’m not too good with technology, but this is good for me. Thank you for making quality product.

Not free player, Limited use

I was binge watching a series on my iPad then it stopped working because of pop-up asked me to pay for the pro. I can no longer use it to watch any videos.

Not too bad, needs a bit of work.

Basic features work, but it has lots of quirks.

The GUI is OK, lacks some basic sorting and browsing functions, you can not control the volume from the volume buttons on the phone, you can not switch devices without stoping the media, little things, that add up.

But, it does play my DLNA library to my AVR.
Show more

Good, but not functional

The player does not take track number into account and plays a nonsense order when playing from upnp. Also does not displays track number to see where in the audiobook you are. Not great if all files start with the string.

Yay a Dlna controller that works for my tv

Awesome

Yes

Awesome App Thank You

Useless

Can’t play my own videos.

Stoped working

Stoped working. Now just shows an ad in another language.

Best UNpN app tried so far

Brilliant app liked my music sources and players without and difficulty. I have tried many apps so far and this is the best.

Don’t Bother

Stick with VLC!
That is totally free works beautifully, smoothly and never fails.
Using exactly the same login credentials 8Player charges for an app that fails every time!
Why would anyone sane choose this?!

Not working

Music player not working

fereydoun1979

😍😘😘😘😘😘👌

MOSTLY BROKEN and abandoned.

August 2019 update claims to fix SMB issues, but the app just crashes whenever I want to pickup where I left off. Maybe an issue relating to its retention bookmark ability. Anyway, nothing’s better, just worse.

Update as of May 7th, 2019.
Still having atrocious smb connection problems. I have other apps which make these same connections instantaneously and without trouble, using the same protocols. There’s no justification for this failure to be prevalent for months and months on end with no resolution.

Avoid this app; my feeling is that the developer has moved on mostly, and there are plenty of competing apps that are better now.

Very sad.

I don’t know what fixes are being applied, but the updates should never create a new problem!

Serves me right for updating at all. Never update anything unless a problem exists to warrant it!
Show more

Ax

Ok

Limitations not obvious

There are 3 8player apps, Basic (?), Lite and Pro. Although it doesn’t say it anywhere in the descriptions, but the both non-pro versions have been crippled in so far that they only give access to the first 5 files in a folder, the rest are locked out, so basically not fit for purpose. It should be clearly stated as to what limitations exist, then you know if you'll have to stump up the money for the pro version to get full functionality.
Other than that it seems to work during the very little use I made of it.
Show more