Filebar vs Tampermonkey
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Filebar
A versatile multimedia player that handles video and music playback from local files, cloud services, and media servers. It also includes robust file management capabilities for both local and remote storage.
- Plays numerous video formats (MP4, MKV, AVI, etc.)
- Supports local and cloud music playback (MP3, FLAC)
- Manages cloud services (SMB, WebDAV, FTP, SFTP)
- Browse and play from media servers (Plex, Emby)
- Comprehensive file management (move, copy, delete)
- Batch renaming for files and folders
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# Filebar Filebar is a modern multimedia player that offers video player, music player, cloud services and file management features. ## Main features ### Video player Filebar offers a powerful video player that allows you to play more video formats, including standard MP4, M4V and MOV, plus MKV, AVI, WMV, FLV, OMG, OGV, 3GP, RMVB and more. You can browse and play videos from your mac, pc, NAS, FTP, and also support playing videos from media servers (such as Emby/Plex/Jellyfin media server), and you can also play videos from cloud services. ### Music Player Filebar provides a nice local music player for playing local and cloud music, supported audio formats are MP3/M4A/FLAC. ### Cloud Services Cloud services are another core feature of Filebar. With Filebar you can easily manage cloud services, including creating folders/deleting/playing/batch renaming/viewing information. It also provides support for remote protocols. The supported protocols are SMB, WebDAV, Synology, FTP, SFTP. ### File Management Filebar also provides a file manager. You can manage your local and remote files: move, delete, edit, copy, upload, batch rename, etc. ## Customer Support Feel free to contact us if your have any suggestions or ideas. - Website: https://fileball.app - Email: filebox.app@outlook.com
Tampermonkey
Enhance and customize web pages with custom JavaScript programs. This tool allows users to easily create, manage, and run these scripts across all major browsers, adding new features or modifying existing ones on any website.
- Userscript management
- Web page customization
- JavaScript execution
- Cross-browser compatibility
- Script creation and editing
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Tampermonkey is a widely popular browser extension compatible with all major browsers. It lets you customize and enhance web pages using userscripts—small JavaScript programs that add or modify features. Easily create, manage, and run these scripts on any website with Tampermonkey.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Filebar at Free against Tampermonkey's $2.99. Filebar also leads on rating (4.3 vs 3.1) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 8 months). Tampermonkey's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and chart position (#21 vs unranked). 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
Filebar is free to download; Tampermonkey costs $2.99 up front. Filebar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tampermonkey asks for nothing beyond the download.
Filebar holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Filebar has 345 ratings behind it against 58, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Filebar's written reviews are positive against 58% of Tampermonkey's.
Filebar ships an update every 2 weeks, Tampermonkey every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Filebar | Tampermonkey |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (345 ratings) — better | 3.1 (58 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 67.1% of reviews — better | 58.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 345 — better | 58 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #21 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 142 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 水峰 徐 | Jan Biniok |
Customer experience
Filebar
Tampermonkey
User reviews
Filebar
From 345 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy and convenient to use
- 🚀 Fast and responsive
- 🔒 Secure file management
- 💡 Excellent media playback capabilities
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
- 🔥 Overheating issues on certain devices
- 🕰️ Slow loading times for large media libraries
- 🚫 Lack of support for certain cloud storage services
Tampermonkey
From 58 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Well executed
- 👍 Essential plugin/extension for all browsers
- 💡 Sync userscripts across browsers
- 👍 Needed this
- 👍 Good
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bug on iPad
- 🐛 Glitching on iPad
- 🐛 Unable to install scripts
- 🐛 Unusable on iPadOS
- 🐛 No response on iPad
Bugs and requests
Filebar
Reported bugs
4 issues- Playback issues with 4K and high-bitrate videos
- Inconsistent behavior when connecting to SMB/FTP servers
- Subtitle display problems, especially for Chinese characters
- Inability to resume playback from the last position
Requested features
5 requests- Add support for Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos
- Implement a more intuitive and customizable user interface
- Introduce a background download/upload feature
- Add a built-in subtitle search and download functionality
- Implement a cross-device playback sync feature
Tampermonkey
Reported bugs
4 issues- Plugins cannot be installed properly
- Screen continuously flickers
- Not usable in Chrome
- Features not working as expected
Requested features
2 requests- Set cookie feature
- Dark mode option
In-app purchases
Filebar
- Filebar Pro Lifetime$9.99
Tampermonkey
No in-app purchases
