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It's a Plex client now
Other reviews say the lifetime licence can't be restored for free, but it worked fine for me.
It's nice that it uses a normal iOS UI and it has a level of integration with the Files app. However, it's far less complete than the previous versions. Some key points (criticisms) follow:
- It duplicates files to import them before playing, which is just a waste of storage space.
- It doesn't seem to have picture-in-picture or any way yo change the video crop, which is poor for 2026.
- It's missing DLNA. DLNA is a nice convenient media server used by Windows, PlayStation, and many TVs, so that seems significant.
- It goes online to pull in details about published videos that match the file name of your videos and you can't turn this off. Got a file called IMG0001.mov? That'll be matched to the closest published film. There's probably privacy issues here.
- It's way overpriced. There are other players that have none of these issues, and they're £5 or less for a perpetual license.
As a streaming client for Plex etc it might be great. That seems to be what the dev had in mind with this version.
I'll check back on this periodically, but right not it's not competitive. If they restore the features that have been lost this might become the best player on the App Store, but that's a big 'if'.
If the suite of old complementary apps were merged in (IPTV, music streaming etc) this would be in a league of its own.
It's nice that it uses a normal iOS UI and it has a level of integration with the Files app. However, it's far less complete than the previous versions. Some key points (criticisms) follow:
- It duplicates files to import them before playing, which is just a waste of storage space.
- It doesn't seem to have picture-in-picture or any way yo change the video crop, which is poor for 2026.
- It's missing DLNA. DLNA is a nice convenient media server used by Windows, PlayStation, and many TVs, so that seems significant.
- It goes online to pull in details about published videos that match the file name of your videos and you can't turn this off. Got a file called IMG0001.mov? That'll be matched to the closest published film. There's probably privacy issues here.
- It's way overpriced. There are other players that have none of these issues, and they're £5 or less for a perpetual license.
As a streaming client for Plex etc it might be great. That seems to be what the dev had in mind with this version.
I'll check back on this periodically, but right not it's not competitive. If they restore the features that have been lost this might become the best player on the App Store, but that's a big 'if'.
If the suite of old complementary apps were merged in (IPTV, music streaming etc) this would be in a league of its own.
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Not The Same
I had the old paid version. It was pathetic how it was auto removed from devices years ago. I was able to restore purchase for this version, but it’s pretty useless now. I never used it for streaming from my media server. Just from websites- which it no longer does. Give us legacy purchasers the old version back because this one sucks.
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Lifetime license not honoured
Great app. Beware that my ‘lifetime’ license is no longer restorable & support ticket ignored </shocked face>
Not as good as it used to be
Lost a couple features since the app originally disappeared. Why can’t we grab videos off the internet? Used to be able to look up YouTube videos and such in app and grab them from there. Please bring this feature back.
