Comparison

Hide The Notch vs MKV PiP Player

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Hide The Notch

Customize your iPhone X wallpaper to creatively hide the notch. Use pre-set images or your own photos with various effects to design unique backgrounds.

Highlights
  • Notch hiding wallpapers
  • Use own photos
  • Apply effects
  • Customizable backgrounds
  • iPhone X companion
Features
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Your wallpaper is the picture you look at most often in your life. Fifty times a day, a hundred. Someone, a place, a light, a three second memory before you answer a message. And there is a notch in it. This app adjusts your wallpaper to hide it. The top of the screen turns black, the same night as the one already around the camera, the kind only OLED screens can make, and your picture carries on underneath as if nothing had happened. Notch, punch hole, Dynamic Island: whatever your phone calls it, it disappears. You choose your photo, the one that matters, and frame it the way you want. Or you start from a gradient and push it around with your finger until you land on the right colour, the one you would not have found anywhere else. There are several ways to make the notch disappear, and a single setting for each. You try, you see straight away, you keep the one you like. Then the picture is yours. It lands in your photos, at the exact size of your screen. You keep it, you send it to someone, you make another one tomorrow because the light has changed. Free. No ads, no account, no tracking, no subscription. Your photos never leave your phone.

About

MKV PiP Player

Play any video file format with picture-in-picture functionality. Supports a vast array of video and subtitle formats, M3U playlists, and casting web videos to DLNA TVs. Offers playback speed control and multi-track audio/subtitle options.

Highlights
  • Picture-in-picture playback
  • Supports over 30 video formats
  • Supports 20+ subtitle formats
  • M3U playlist support
  • DLNA TV casting
  • Playback speed control
  • Multi-track audio and subtitles
Features
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MKV PiP Player is a video player that Lets you play any videos picture-in-picture. - Supports video files : MKV, MP4, AVI, M4V, MOV, 3GP, TS, MTS, M2TS, WMV, FLV, F4V, ASF, WEBM, RM, RMVB, QT, DV, MPG, MPEG, MXF, VOB, GIF, OGV, OGM etc. - Supports subtitle files : ASS, SRT, SMI, SSA, IDX, SUB, SUP, VTT, SCC, MKS, JSS, JS, AQT, RT, UFT, UTF8, UTF-8 etc. - Supports playlist files : M3U - Supports Cast Web Videos to DLNA TV - Supports Browser, SMB, WebDAV, AList - Playback speed control : 0.25x ~ 4.0x - Supports multi-track audio - Supports embedded subtitles - Supports multi-track subtitles - Supports user’s selection of subtitle files - Supports recently played list - Supports Safari extension Disclaimer:MKV PiP Player does not provide any M3U playlists, users must use their own playlists containing legal content.

Screenshots

Hide The Notch4 screens
MKV PiP Player4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Hide The Notch at Free against MKV PiP Player's $0.99. Hide The Notch also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). MKV PiP Player's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (68 vs 4). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Hide The Notch is free to download; MKV PiP Player costs $0.99 up front. MKV PiP Player sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Hide The Notch asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hide The Notch holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MKV PiP Player has 68 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hide The Notch ships an update every 3 weeks, MKV PiP Player weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Hide The Notch versus MKV PiP Player: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHide The NotchMKV PiP Player
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better4.7 (68 ratings)
Positive reviews—94.0% of reviews
Number of ratings468 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB42 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperMaxime ThirouinBeijing Yima Network Technology Co., Ltd.

Customer experience

Hide The Notch

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

MKV PiP Player

All ratings68 ratings
Positive95.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.4%
Written reviews67 reviews
Positive94.0%
Neutral3.0%
Negative3.0%

Bugs and requests

Hide The Notch

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

MKV PiP Player

Reported bugs

14 issues
  • HD clarity cannot load
  • DLNA cast to TV has no response
  • Glitchy at times
  • Frequent crashes, especially when initiating PiP
  • M3U parsing needs to be faster and search needs to be smoother
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  • Latest picture-in-picture fast forward/backward not working normally
  • Freezes every few minutes, requires pause/play to resume
  • External subtitles not working
  • Crashes when clicking recent playback history
  • Picture-in-picture playback crashes after about 10 seconds
  • Default to landscape, cannot adjust
  • File list automatically switches to date sorting upon reopening, causing disorder
  • Cannot select files from external USB drive
  • Cannot delete Alibaba Cloud Drive resources directly from the app

Requested features

41 requests
  • Add option to close transition animations
  • Add vertical screen viewing function
  • Support for Emby
  • Add function to import video sources
  • Support for ATV
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  • Add pause/play with Airpod controls
  • Allow listening to videos when phone is powered off (without PiP)
  • Faster M3U parsing and smoother search
  • Ability to display M3U contents in a list
  • Ability to disable subtitles
  • Add function to import letters
  • Add function to import video sources or provide jump interface
  • Support for ATV
  • Add VOD URL function
  • Add option to disable recent playback
  • Add network movie posters and library
  • Add background playback (not PiP)
  • Add auto-play next episode
  • Add grid layout
  • Add background playback function
  • Add option for automatic horizontal screen
  • Add drag-and-drop sorting for playback list
  • Support for ATV
  • Add side-screen and vertical screen viewing options
  • Add Apple TV support
  • Add DLNA screen casting
  • Allow screen-off playback for music
  • Develop TV version
  • Add cache function for large files
  • Add screen casting function
  • Add delete function for Alibaba Cloud Drive resources
  • Add timer playback function
  • Add screen lock function
  • Display only one history record for the same folder
  • Sync playback history data with Alibaba Cloud
  • Add dark mode
  • Add audiobook function
  • Add cloud synchronization function across devices
  • Allow lock screen playback and co-playback with other audio
  • Add more detailed long-press speed options (e.g., 2.5x)
  • Support downloading videos from the browser

In-app purchases

None

Hide The Notch

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

MKV PiP Player

One-time1
  • MKV PiP Player Pro$1.99

Questions

Is Hide The Notch free?
Hide The Notch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MKV PiP Player free?
MKV PiP Player costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hide The Notch or MKV PiP Player?
Hide The Notch is rated higher. Hide The Notch averages 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while MKV PiP Player averages 4.7 from 68 ratings.
Do Hide The Notch or MKV PiP Player have ads?
Neither Hide The Notch nor MKV PiP Player shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hide The Notch or MKV PiP Player?
Hide The Notch ships an update every 3 weeks, and MKV PiP Player weekly. Most recently, Hide The Notch was updated on October 24, 2026 and MKV PiP Player on October 27, 2026.

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