ViplexHandy vs KystarBox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ViplexHandy
Manage and control Taurus series multimedia players for LED displays. Design playlists, configure screens, and manage media files directly from your iOS device. This app offers comprehensive control for asynchronous full-color LED displays.
- Screen management
- Solution editing
- System settings
- Media library
- Quick screen configuration
- Real-time control
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ViPlex Handy, designed for the Taurus series products, is an application for the iOS platform. Launched by NovaStar, the Taurus series products are the second generation of multimedia players for small and medium-sized asynchronous full-color LED displays. This application supports functions like screen management, solution editing, system settings, and media library. Screen management: Allows you to manage the Taurus series products in the LAN and supports quick screen configuration, real-time control, playback management, cloud server binding and so on. Solution editing: Allows you to quickly design various playlists which will be sent to the Taurus series products for playback. System settings: Includes software language settings and help documentation. Media library: Allows you to browse the multimedia files on your mobile phone.
KystarBox
Manage and control multimedia players remotely. Edit programs, replace materials, and adjust display settings like brightness and volume wirelessly. Supports iPhone and iPad with iOS 10.0 or higher.
- Remote wireless program distribution
- Program editing and reconstruction
- Material replacement on display
- Real-time program switching
- Brightness, color temperature, and volume adjustment
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The Kystar Box app is a mobile app provided by Beijing KYSTAR Technology Co.,Ltd for remote wireless program distribution, management and control of Kystar Box's multimedia player program. Realize editing and reconstruction of the program, material replacement on the display side, real-time program switching; real-time adjustment of brightness, color temperature, volume, etc. The current version supports iPhone and iPad, and the iOS system version needs 10.0 or more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: KystarBox at 5.0 against ViplexHandy's 2.4. KystarBox also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 13.0). ViplexHandy's advantage is ratings volume (28 vs 1) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
KystarBox holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ViplexHandy has 28 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
ViplexHandy ships an update every 6 weeks, KystarBox every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ViplexHandy | KystarBox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (28 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 11.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 212 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Xi'an NovaStar Tech Co.,Ltd | 北京凯视达科技有限公司 |
Customer experience
ViplexHandy
KystarBox
In-app purchases
ViplexHandy
No in-app purchases
KystarBox
No in-app purchases
