VLC media player Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience51.9% of reviews
Neutral16.7% of reviews
Negative experience31.4% of reviews

~ Based on 1,349 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about VLC media player

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

Great but Dims the HDR contents a lot

SDR and bluerays ar perfect but please make sure HDR contents don’t dims , but Make sure they plays as bright and vivid as they play in youtube

Perfect

Perfect

Idk

Honestly VLC is laggy asf Videos stutter playback feels sluggish and the overall experience isn’t as smooth as it should be For a media player this popular I expected much better performance It gets the job done, but the lag makes it frustrating to use Needs serious optimization

Bring back pip mode

Please bring back pip mode, it makes consuming contents and doing other things at the same time more easier for someone like me

Low frame rate on mp4 videos

Low frame rate on mp4 videos

Best free media player

Would it be an over-exaggeration if i said i have loved vlc since my day one :)

Yes, there have been rough parts but i have always found my way back to this software because the community is just so supportive of it. Every time there was any big issue i felt like it was fixed in time and the devs were listening to the community and that alone is enough for me to be a customer for life.

The one issue i have always come across with is the ui, always hated the ui. On each platform too.

For a community so vast and dedicated to the longevity of this software, it seems, the ui is not one of the problems the vlc devs concern themselves with.

Like, how many years has it been since the devs actually made a real-substantial ui update? I recently saw this video on YouTube where this lady made her own version of the ui she would like to see and i was so impressed (like many others) of how it came out. It was sleek, functional, modern.

All too perfect if anything; her name is @juxtopposed on yt btw, and i was asking myself, “how can it be so hard for the vlc devs to actually give us these changes”.
I was so frustrated when i went back to what we have vs what i just saw. Like why is the ui still so outdated. And sure, it is an open community software and getting updates can be difficult and expensive but that doesn’t mean that they can’t ask community for help. Im pretty sure a good couple million people would gladly offer to help (even for free) if the devs asked but, the devs don’t really talk much and they feel like that distant friend you only talk to once a few years but in this case they don’t talk back.

Anyways, i guess i just wanted to vent and in hopes that the devs will somehow see this and make a change. I LOVE VLC
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iOS 27 Fix Bug

Videos not showing on 27.

Worked then didn’t

Mixed results

No option to compress video

Where is the option to compress/reduce the size of videos?

Needs work

You can’t open one mp3 at a time without closing the app first. Doesn’t work anywhere as good as the Windows version. Can’t see mp3 file info.

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Half-done app that is getting worse by every update

Apparently it's "not ready". All the video/audio/playlist tabs do NOT support local media files, even though you can browse Local Files in the Browse tab it does not support handling local files properly. It would be nice if the app would not crash when I am opening a local media file, and if I could create a playlist on-the-fly when I am listening to or watching local items and I could just add them to playlists of my choice.
Do you have any plans of completing the implementations or will the app remain just half-ready? The afore mentioned video and audio tabs do not even have options to browse for media so non-sense to have these tabs any way.
Update: first of all, NO - I will not rearrange my storage just to suit a bug that the developers cannot fix; secondly now there is no way to disable gestures. Before update there were no gestures (all disabled) and after update the video acts erratic when accidentally tapped the screen. CAN YOU PLEASE MAKE IT POSSIBLE TO DISABLE ALL GESTURES AGAIN, INCLUDING TAP AND SWIPE AND EVERYTHING ELSE!!!!
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Dislike

Does not support picture in picture feature

An issue with pitch in audio

When I play an audio file (MP3, M4A, etc.), the audio on "VLC Media Player" repeatedly and consistently increases pitch, making the pitch sound high and not how I wanna hear it. Please fix this, and this has happened multiple times in the last few months that I have had the application installed and active on my iOS smartphone.
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Uploading files via link not working as of 10.06.26

Please fix !!! I will update review asap

Great but broken

Simply stops playing music files randomly and without any pattern. Especially annoying because I want to use the app to play music from a large mp3 collection.

Not like android or pc

A lot is different and it’s messing up

Doesn’t import anymore

As of iOS 26 I’ve noticed that nothing I try to “add” via files or link doesn’t work anymore at all. It won’t even play some of the file types it’s played for years but ever since iOS 26 nothing has worked correctly.

Only downside

The only negative thing i have to say about this app is when i try to play music through bluetooth it always skips 1-5 seconds of the beginning of the song and i cannot get it to not do that. And i wish songs tab could be sorted by artist as well, other that app is incredible i love everything else about it!
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Love VLC but

Not having Picture in Picture is really starting to suck.