Profile Shot vs Plain Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Profile Shot
Easily capture profile photos with automatic background removal. This tool is ideal for social media avatars and group shots, ensuring consistent framing and zoom. It offers a 'smile to shoot' feature for hands-free operation and allows previewing with different backgrounds.
- Automatic background removal
- Face detection and crop frame
- Automatic zoom to crop frame
- Smile to shoot functionality
- Preview with different backgrounds
- Save to Photo Library
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This app lets you take a profile photo with the background automatically removed. Useful for example for social media avatars and profile images. It detects your face and shows a crop frame. When you take the shot, it will automatically zoom the photo to the crop frame. Thus you can take profile shots of your whole football team, all with the same size and zoom. If your arms aren't long enough, enable the "smile to shoot" option, move away and smile when you are satisfied. Tap the photo to preview with different backgrounds, and finally save to your Photo Library. Note that the background is not saved with the photo; this is for viewing only. An iPhone with a depth capable camera is required.
Plain Player
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Plain player: a simple, convenient and very lite video & audio player. It can play many popular video formats like avi, mp4, mkv… and almost audio formats. It has various settings that can help you easily to watch videos & audio in the way you want. It supports many gestures like double-tap, swipe to seek, change brightness, volume and zoom. You can easily choose the orientation of the video, so that you don’t need to change your device orientation setting whenever watching movie. It can also support local subtitle. You can transfer subtitle file with the same name of the video to the same folder, and it will automatically show when you play video. Currently it only support srt format, but in the future, it can support other formats, too. You can import video & audio files using a computer, or using app Files or Photos to copy video & audio files on your device to the app. The app interface is very simple, plain and intuitive, so you can easily know how to use all the features of app on the first sight. It has some sort options and search function to help you find the video & audio you want. You can also edit metadata of mp3 files. It even has a web view inside used to watch YouTube videos without ads. On iPad, you can watch up to 4K videos. So you don’t need to open your browser app when you need to watch YouTube videos. The youtube player also supports some gestures like swipe to seek, change brightness and volume. Now you can listen to your youtube video/music while screen is turned off with picture in picture mode.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Profile Shot at none against Plain Player's 1. Profile Shot also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). Plain Player's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 27 months). On price and device support 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. Plain Player sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Profile Shot asks for nothing beyond the download.
Profile Shot ships an update every 27 months, Plain Player every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Profile Shot | Plain Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 27 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Imagine Technology AS | Son Hoang Thai |
In-app purchases
Profile Shot
No in-app purchases
Plain Player
- Remove ads forever$4.99
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