VLC media player Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience51.9% of reviews
Neutral17.1% of reviews
Negative experience31.0% of reviews

~ Based on 1,422 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 6,061 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 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Very nice but need a few improvements

Being a old user of VLC its all good, except a few things as mentioned: when adding a song to a playlist which already contains it, it shows no warning as to that the song js already there. I can add a song 10 times in same playlist. Given a user has multiple files, it sometimes become an issue when adding songs. Please fix it. Also, when skipping song line, i have to hold the bar a few seconds and then move the track forward or backward. I can not simply drag or click the line. Also, i am waiting for v.4.0 for liquid glass UI.
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Some Files Constantly Crash

I’ve been using VLC for 20+ years on desktop (Windows, Mac, and to a much lesser degree Linux). The desktop app has reliably played 99.99% of what I have thrown at it, including some files that are partially corrupted. Great App.

I was expecting the same great reliability from the VLC iOS App, but have found it to be far less reliable. It actually cannot even play some mp3 files without crashing (ex: Pretty Lights - Constellation Discs 1-3 - free to download from their website if anyone wants to try). As a result, it has forced me to try other, less enjoyable apps (that playback the albums just fine).

I’ll still use VLC and hope this issue gets fixed, if it does, I’ll update my review. In the meantime, I’ll have another single use app.

Update for Developer: MP3 version, is what I tried initially. Also crashed with the AIFF version, did not try WAV.
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Interface shows up on its on, interrupting the playback

I totally love this app, and honestly feel so bad giving it three stars, I’ll definitely remove this review and make a new one after getting a response. So the issue I’m facing is that, the interface (the seek, pause/play button, brightness and volume controls, etc.) shows up on its own at exactly 20 minutes, and won’t go away until I tap on the screen. Please let me know if theres any fix to this asap. Thanks!
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Fallen Behind

There’s so many video players that can play almost all types of media and VLC is lacking so many features that those apps have. Picture in Picture should be standard and I have several video players that support it with just as many video types as VLC does.

Not nearly useful as on desktop

Used VLC for a long time on linux. Plays videos fine as one selected item but the playlist feature is very bad. Have to select one at a time to create new playlist and no option to select existing playlist. So bug there beyond it being a hassle. Best if the devs made it follow the directory structure so i can manage on the file system myself.
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FLAC streams play silent.

Please correct the issue where FLAC streams play silent, while M3U8 HLS plays fine.

I can’t play any video in my VLC

Is really bad

Thank you

Honestly thankyou guys

VLC paired with stremio is fantastic on iPhone

Thank you to the team!

Needs to support folders and iphone duo

Why cant you put videos into folders? Why no iphone duo support? Otherwise a wonderful app that can play a huge number of video formats.

no iphone duo support

needs an update for the iphone duo asap.

Best Media Player Ever

It’s sad to see people rating VLC 1star or anything less than 5. I’ve been using this app for as long as I can remember without any ads, no issues, no frequent update requests or whatsoever. Although I missed out on an interesting feature, and I dunno whether it’s the update or coz I changed my phone. But still ain’t gonna give them anything less than 5stars coz it’s still the best media player.
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Videos not shown in the app

Im not sure this is a bug or not, but i can see videos appearing in VLC folder through my ipad Files. However, in the app, those videos arent there in the library.

Good

I was expecting something okayish coming from VLC on Android and having really disliked VLC for Linux, but compared to anything else on iOS right now this is the go-to media player and it does fine

Доработка

Плохо, что если его свернуть, то окно не отображается…
Во время переключения в 2х, есть затыки
Вовремя просмотра видео, если опускать шторку уведомивший, то видео замирает а звук при этом работает…
В целом хорошо, но вот эти мелкие проблемы, зудят… нужно поправить…
Если будет читать видео файл mkv, будет очень прекрасно !
ps: надеюсь меня поняли…)?
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Yet another finicky app

VLC on desktops is great. This is not. I couldn’t figure out some pretty basic functions, and at this point I just delete any program that refuses to operate intuitively after a couple minutes. Do better.

HDR

Please bring HDR! Already?

내인생 젤 불편한 플레이어

진짜 븅신같음 강의 이걸로밖에 안돼서 참는다

Can’t choose audio file on iPad

Good app but I can’t choose audio when watching a video even a video file has many audio tracks…please fix it

Feature Suggestion

Would be good if they could add a shuffle button to the top of a playlist!