Comparison

Spatial Control vs SVPlayer

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

Head to head
About

Spatial Control

This app allows for real-time control and interaction with immersive audio spaces. Design, deploy, and customize dynamic soundscapes for various environments like retail, hospitality, and museums. It offers user-friendly scene controls, event triggering, and detailed permissions for a seamless audio experience.

Highlights
  • Real-time control of audio spaces
  • Interactive soundscape management
  • User-friendly scene and space controls
  • Trigger interactive events
  • Detailed user roles and permissions
  • Easy setup, tuning, and customization
Features
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Spatial, the immersive audio experience company, provides compelling, dynamic soundscapes in all of the places we work, play and stay. Spatial brings realistic interactive soundscapes to real-world spaces. - Retail: Ignite your customers’ imaginations - Hospitality: Create a world of wonder - Residential: Make home their favorite destination - Museum: Exhibit the unexpected - Theme Park and Experience: Tell your biggest story Spatial experiences are Realistic, Interactive and Flexible - Built on an object-driven platform that renders realistic, believable soundscapes in real-time. - Comprehensive and immediate support for both inputs and outputs, allowing interactive and dynamic experiences and integration with third-party lights, screens, control systems, and more. - Design once; deploy anywhere. Spatial can scale and adapt to any location and installation; place speakers anywhere you want to strengthen the impact. Using real-world acoustic physics, Spatial scenes automatically adjust to the space for the best possible experience. Next Generation Tools: Spatial Control - Real-time control of and interaction with all your spaces - User friendly scene and space controls - Adjust volume, browse scene information, lock and unlock spaces and more - Trigger interactive events right from the Control app - Detailed user roles and permissions for a business-critical service experience - Easy setup, tuning, and customization of your spaces - Get everything just right without ever leaving the space - Use device features to fine tune the acoustics of each location Also available at www.spatialinc.com: Next Generation Tools: Spatial Reality Spatial Reality runs on inexpensive high performance macOS and Linux computers and works with all industry standard audio hardware to create Spatial experiences anywhere you can imagine. Next Generation Tools: Spatial Studio Spatial Studio is a powerful creation environment with detailed control of a fully visualized experiential scene. Creators from beginner to pro can see the whole scene take place on the 3D canvas and a few quick clicks publishes the scene to the Spatial account hosted in the cloud.

About

SVPlayer

Enhance your video viewing experience with real-time frame rate conversion, making any video appear smoother. Enjoy playback of various formats and network streams with advanced features. Frame rate conversion requires an in-app subscription after a trial period.

Highlights
  • Real-time frame rate conversion (60+ fps)
  • Support for all video and audio formats
  • Network stream playback (WebDAV, FTP, SMB, DLNA)
  • High-quality scaling and rendering
  • HDR tone mapping
  • Black bars detection and lighting
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SVP (aka SmoothVideo Project) converts any video to 60 fps (and even higher) and does it in real time. From the extensive community feedback, we learned that anyone who has watched at least three movies at high frame rates would never ever want to watch anything in the outdated 24 fps standard ;) In-App subscriptions: Frame Rate Conversion (aka FRC aka HFR aka MEMC) is a PAID option after short trial period. ALL OTHER FEATURES ARE FREE (yes, including MKV files playback). Uses SmoothVideo Project (SVP) real-time motion interpolation (MEMC) engine, including: * Target frame rate selection (48 fps, 60 fps, 120(*) fps, x2, x3 rate...) * Flexible configuration * Black bars detection and lighting plus * Can do high quality frame rate conversion (for example, using RIFE neural network) via a desktop PC/Mac running SVP 4 application. * Built-in file browser supporting streaming from WebDAV, FTP, SMB, DLNA, Emby Server and Plex Server. Please note that the SVP engine requires a recent and powerful CPU. At least Apple A13 performance level is highly recommended for 1080p playback with frame rate conversion enabled. SVPlayer WILL drain the battery like top games do and it MAY NOT WORK at all on old/slow devices. Please don't write bad reviews just because your device can't handle it. Based on mpv video player which supports: * All video and audio formats out there; * Hardware video decoding; * Network stream playback; * High quality scaling and rendering; * AFR (adaptive frame rate) * HDR tone mapping; * Audio normalization and equalization; * Direct mpv.conf access; * and much more... See more info and desktop applications on our website! (*) 120 fps support depends on hardware and iOS version. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Spatial Control3 screens
SVPlayer4 screens

Verdict

The call

Spatial Control and SVPlayer both sit at 4.3 stars, but that hides the real split: 69% of SVPlayer's written reviews are positive against 0% of Spatial Control's. SVPlayer also leads on ratings volume (83 vs 11). Spatial Control's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6). On price, rating, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. SVPlayer sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per year. Spatial Control asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Spatial Control against 4.4 for SVPlayer. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SVPlayer has 83 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of Spatial Control's written reviews are positive against 69% of SVPlayer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spatial Control ships an update monthly, SVPlayer every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Spatial Control versus SVPlayer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpatial ControlSVPlayer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (11 ratings)4.4 (83 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews68.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1183 — better
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple TV
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB84 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSpatial Inc.Konstantin Dondoshanskii

Customer experience

Spatial Control

All ratings11 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

SVPlayer

All ratings80 ratings
Positive83.8%
Neutral6.3%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews51 reviews
Positive68.6%
Neutral7.8%
Negative23.5%

Bugs and requests

Spatial Control

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

SVPlayer

Reported bugs

17 issues
  • Unable to verify license error offline
  • Crashes constantly during navigation
  • Pressing eject button crashes app
  • Navigating to directory and going back crashes app
  • Opening/closing video and navigating crashes app
Show 12 more
  • Infinite loading overlay when skipping to next video
  • Can only browse entire movie library, can't search
  • Error checking license on Apple TV
  • Doesn't open most HLS streams and other online videos
  • App asks to buy again after purchase
  • Lag sometimes
  • Frame rate feature sometimes doesn't work
  • App stopped working on Apple TV
  • Timebomb placed in app
  • Overheating and throttling on powerful devices
  • Significant brightness reduction after 10-15 minutes
  • Audio not playing on external speakers when playing from iPad

Requested features

23 requests
  • Support iOS 15 system
  • Connect to Jellyfin option
  • Reorder bottom navigation bar
  • Move Svpcast to video settings
  • Pop view option
Show 18 more
  • Save frame rate converted videos
  • Make voices deeper when slowing down video
  • Use AI for improved capabilities
  • Save videos
  • Save upscale videos on iPhones
  • Save videos to photos
  • Access YouTube videos by URL
  • Option to replace duplicate frames
  • Export videos
  • New shader (e.g., 25)
  • Allow saving videos
  • Save enhanced videos
  • Option for Vsync
  • See actual frame rate/frame time graph
  • Support 120fps for iPad Pro
  • Audio EQ with preamp
  • Button to select audio output
  • Improve UI for better usability

In-app purchases

None

Spatial Control

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

SVPlayer

Subscriptions3
  • Yearly Premium (iOS)$2.991 Year
  • Yearly Premium +TV (upgrade)$5.991 Year
  • Yearly Premium +TV$7.991 Year
One-time3
  • Lifetime Premium (iOS)$9.99
  • Lifetime Premium +TV (upgrade)$17.99
  • Lifetime Premium +TV$24.99

Questions

Is Spatial Control free?
Spatial Control is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SVPlayer free?
SVPlayer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Spatial Control or SVPlayer?
SVPlayer is rated higher. Spatial Control averages 4.3 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while SVPlayer averages 4.4 from 83 ratings.
Do Spatial Control or SVPlayer have ads?
Neither Spatial Control nor SVPlayer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Spatial Control or SVPlayer?
Spatial Control ships an update monthly, and SVPlayer every 2 months. Most recently, Spatial Control was updated on October 7, 2026 and SVPlayer on October 30, 2026.

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