VLC media player User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience52.6% of reviews
Neutral16.4% of reviews
Negative experience31.0% of reviews

~ Based on 1,257 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is VLC media player Safe?

VLC media player appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for VLC media player is 74/100.

This assessment is based on 5,780 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.7/5.

Safety Analysis

63.6% of ratings point to a safe experience
11.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
25.4% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 5,780 App Store ratings for VLC media player.

Is VLC media player Legit?

VLC media player appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for VLC media player is 83/100.

Based on 83 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Playlists could be improved

At random moments Playlists will just have their saved songs wiped, there’s also a personal issue of not being able to have playlist art or a button to play/shuffle music with you needing to select a song first. With this aside this app is extremely good for listening to tracks offline.
Responding to devs: I can only seem to find the button on albums [which I didn’t see initially thank you for the heads up]
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Great! But could improve!

First time using this app and I love it! I did want to suggest the need to add a sorting capability throughout the files. It should have multiple ways to sort, A-Z, etc. Plus improve on this and it’ll be an even more useful app! Thanks! I love that you added multiple cloud storage accessibilities! That was so helpful!
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What are these reviews?

Does it have bugs that need fixed? Yes does it need to be updated? Yes but dissuading people from getting it is dumb because i’m fairly sure you don’t have a better recommendation.
The only suggestion i would make is to add looping support for file types that can have loop points .wav and the like.

edit: what’s the point of that
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VLC is like an old friend

One of the few, great constants in the computer world.
It is a powerful tool but ’m not skilled enough to use it for more than the basic music player activities. However I will always bring it in on any new devices, like a favorite classic music album.

Problem with music playing.

Sometimes when I pause my music I'm not able to resume playing it unless I refresh the entire app. Can you guys fix this?

One Thing

Whenever i have apple music even OPEN it always takes top priority over vlc even though vlc is the superior music player

Deletes your videos

Randomly it will delete a video and the storage space will then turn into a system file which then cannot be removed without factory resetting your iPad.

Not as good as android version for shared folder access

This app does not handle windows shared folder access as well as the android version does. VLC for android treats content on shared windows desktop folders the same as local content for playing. iOS version does not.

The best digital media viewer to exist

As someone who is fond with unique video/photo formats, this player is absolutely amazing! I have never had more fun playing around with unique video codecs with unique audio codecs and such.

Almost perfect

Some of my albums are inexplicably mis-sorted. None of the options put them in order. The track numbers are right there, but the app doesn’t let me sort by track number. That should be added.

I use this as a substitute for basically every streaming service

I kept running into glitches with streaming services so I transferred all my songs from my pc onto my phone and no use this for music as well as shows, i find the ui to honestly be better than the pc version, i like it

Terrible app

Terrible app. No clear instructions are provided.

Latest IOS update disabled file uploading.

The app is now useless for uploading mp3 files from a windows machine. I wasted an entire day trying to fix this. Deleted all uploaded files when reinstalled.

Add PiP and this'll easily be 5 stars.

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Broken

Recently has stopped adding thumbnails for videos I open to the main tab. Thus I am unable to switch between videos, or even to exit the app and resume playing them.

What are these reviews?

Does it have bugs that need fixed? Yes does it need to be updated? Yes but not recommending it is dumb because i’m pretty sure you don’t have a better recommendation.
The only suggestion i would make is to add looping support for file types that have loop points .wav and the like.

Perfection

It is the best app I have used for music. Just wish I could lower the volume of the app alone while I talk to friends and listen to music.

Great Player, But It Needs Better Music Library Features

I’ve been using VLC on iPhone as my primary offline music player, and it’s stable and reliable. However, there are several features that would make it much better for users with large music libraries.

1. The music library order changes by itself. Every few weeks, the order of my songs changes even though I haven’t modified my files. Please make the library order stable and predictable.
2. Please add more sorting options, including:
* Date Added
* File Creation Date
* File Modification Date
* Import Order
These sorting methods are essential for users who regularly add new music and want their newest songs to appear at the top.
3. Please add a Favorites feature. Being able to mark songs as favorites and access them from a dedicated playlist would greatly improve the music experience.
4. Please improve music library management. Users with large offline collections (thousands of songs) need more powerful organization and browsing tools.
5. Please preserve the selected sorting method permanently. VLC should remember the user’s preferred sorting option and never change the order automatically.

VLC is already one of the best free media players on iOS. Adding these features would make it an excellent offline music player as well.

Thank you for your amazing work!
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Needs PIP

This app desperately needs a Picture in Picture mode, having to stay in the app to watch stuff just means I end up just not using the app and downloading another app that does have PIP. So many apps can play all types of media these days I feel like VLC isn’t unique anymore. This review I wrote years ago and it still stands today
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Great

Best media player I ever use