PLAY'A vs Remuxer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PLAY'A
This app offers a versatile VR video player and viewer with a simple interface for seamless playback of 2D, 3D, and 360° videos. It supports various formats, including 4K and MP4, and provides intuitive controls for an enhanced viewing experience.
- Supports 2D, 3D, 180°, and 360° videos
- Playback of 4K, MP4, and all video formats
- Intuitive user interface
- Shake smoothing and cinematic mode
- Privacy and hands-free modes
- Picture and VR video adjustments
- Automatic pause on headset removal
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Exclusive to users that don’t like complications - Play’a is the versatile Video VR Player and Viewer created to match a busy lifestyle. Whether it’s a Simple and Intuitive Interface, a very Hip Contemporary Design of the app, Playback of the downloads from the Local File Storage or Streaming Online from the Network Connected Servers, Play’a does it right and it does it with style! Navigation is the best and easy in and out of VR. Just jump on a couch and turn it on - you are ready to watch! At their fingertips, the users like you will find: 2D, 3D, flat, fisheye, 180° and 360° Videos automatically recognized 4K, mp4 playback All Video Formats Supported Intuitive user interface Shake smoothing Cinematic mode Privacy modes Hands-free mode Convenient folder navigation Picture adjustments: brightness, contrast, saturation VR Video adjustments: tilt, height, zoom, playback speed Automatic pause if the headset is removed For your ultimate convenience, PLAY’A VR supports all stereo video formats including 3D side-by-side and 3D top-bottom frame packing, as well as all the traditional video formats. Just download the app and see it for yourself ! ;)
Remuxer
This app helps you play videos that aren't compatible with your device by changing their container to MP4 or MKV without losing quality. It can also convert videos using your device's hardware encoder and manage audio/subtitle tracks.
- Lossless MP4/MKV remuxing
- Hardware accelerated video conversion
- Manage audio and subtitle tracks
- Exclude unneeded tracks
- Fix audio/subtitle sync
- Export audio/subtitle tracks
- Import metadata and artwork
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Most of the time your videos are already encoded correctly and just the video container is wrong, so they won't play directly on your device. Remuxer muxes your videos losslessly into an MP4 or MKV container, so you can play them directly on your device, and converts them with your device's hardware encoder when they need it. - Fast muxing of H.264, HEVC and AV1 videos to MP4 or MKV, without re-encoding - Convert videos to H.264 or HEVC with the hardware encoder, at the quality you choose - Exclude unneeded tracks to reduce file size, and reorder the ones you keep - Add audio and subtitle tracks from other files (SRT, ASS, VTT, PGS, AAC, AC3, DTS, FLAC and more) - Fix out-of-sync audio and subtitles with a sync correction for each track - Export audio or subtitle tracks on their own (M4A, AC3, SRT, SUP and more) - Downmix audio to AAC or AC3 with 2.0 or 5.1 channels - Import metadata and artwork online from TheTVDB, TheMovieDB and the iTunes Store
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PLAY'A at none against Remuxer's 1. PLAY'A also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks) and ratings volume (55 vs 9). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Remuxer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PLAY'A asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.6 for PLAY'A against 3.7 for Remuxer. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PLAY'A has 55 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 36% of PLAY'A's written reviews are positive against 40% of Remuxer's.
PLAY'A ships an update fortnightly, Remuxer every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on November 11, 2026.
| Parameter | PLAY'A | Remuxer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (55 ratings) | 3.7 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 36.5% of reviews | 40.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 55 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 360 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Swearl, LLC | Thomas Bilich |
Customer experience
PLAY'A
Remuxer
Bugs and requests
PLAY'A
Reported bugs
6 issues- App crashes on launch
- Shaking/spinning screen
- Inability to add websites
- No sound in certain scenarios
- Playback issues with high-resolution videos
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- Unreliable DLNA/SMB connectivity
Requested features
6 requests- Multi-tasking support
- Improved SMB/network file support
- Customizable text/cursor size
- YouTube integration
- Passthrough mode for mixed reality
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- Ability to adjust VR screen size
Remuxer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PLAY'A
No in-app purchases
Remuxer
- Remuxer Pro$3.99
