Video Player vs Plain Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Video Player
Play any video file format with this media player. It offers playback controls for speed, volume, and brightness, along with a lock mode to prevent interruptions. Organize your videos into personalized playlists.
- Supports all video formats (mkv, mov, mp4, avi, 3gp)
- Playback speed control
- Video lock mode
- Volume and brightness adjustment sliders
- Create and manage personalized video playlists
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This app helps you to play video with any video formats like mkv, mov, mp4, avi, 3gp and any other formats. This app also support volume adjustment, brightness adjustment, fast forward and backward and lock mode. Video Player allows you to create your own video playlists and manage videos with own personalize playlists. App Features:- - Support all video format - Playback speed control - Lock for for playing video - Volume control with slider - Brightness control with slider
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 update cadence: Plain Player at every 8 days against Video Player's every 2 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Video Player sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Plain Player sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Video Player ships an update every 2 months, Plain Player every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Video Player | Plain Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (41 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 41 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Hiren Merja | Son Hoang Thai |
In-app purchases
Video Player
- Remove Ads$1.99
Plain Player
- Remove ads forever$4.99
