Comparison

Media Player vs Plain Player

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

Head to head
About

Media Player

Enjoy your favorite music and videos offline with this advanced media player. It supports a wide range of audio and video formats, offering high-quality playback and easy control over volume, brightness, and playback speed. Organize your music library by album, artist, or song.

Highlights
  • Supports all audio and video formats
  • High-quality HD and 4K playback
  • Adjustable volume, brightness, and playback speed
  • Music library organization
  • Multi-playback options
  • Plays mobile and gallery videos
Features
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Great news for movie and music lovers! Media Player: HD Video Player is one of the best video music players and organizer apps. It is an easy-to-use app that enables you to enjoy your favorite music anywhere, any time offline. With its unique design and user-friendly interface, you can play your music files within the app without any long delays or buffering. This video is a media player: HD Video Player, new version, full HD 2021. a player is supported on all versions of the iOS HD Video Player with a high-resolution HD video editor, which can show you the best way with high quality to any video. Now, add your top favorite songs and play your music files via the Mc Music Player app, and enjoy your free time with good music. It is one of the most advanced music players that supports all kinds of formats without any delays or errors. An audio player for all types of audio formats, a music player Not only is it an MP3 player, but the Music Player also supports all music and audio formats, including MP3, MIDI, WAV, FLAC, AAC, APE, etc., and plays them in high quality on an HD video player. Key Features - It's simple to adjust the volume, brightness, and playback speed. - Multi-playback options: auto-rotation, aspect-ratio, screen-lock, etc. - It plays both mobile and gallery videos. - The auto-play option for videos works. - All music formats are supported. - Find a music library by album, artist, or all songs. -MKV, MP4, M4V, AVI, MOV, 3GP, FLV, WMV, RMVB, TS, and other video formats are all supported. - Ultra HD video player (supports 4K). - Adjust the volume by swiping up and down on the right side of the playback screen. - Control brightness by swiping up and down on the left side of the playback screen.

About

Plain Player

Features
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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.

Screenshots

Media Player4 screens
Plain Player4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Plain Player at every 8 days against Media Player's every 27 months. Media Player's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Media 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Media Player ships an update every 27 months, Plain Player every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Media Player versus Plain Player: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMedia PlayerPlain Player
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (349 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings349 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 27 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB47 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperStephan CullmannSon Hoang Thai

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Media Player

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$4.99
1 purchases

Plain Player

One-time1
  • Remove ads forever$4.99

Questions

Is Media Player free?
Media Player is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Plain Player free?
Plain Player is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Media Player or Plain Player have ads?
Both Media Player and Plain Player show ads.
Which is updated more often, Media Player or Plain Player?
Media Player ships an update every 27 months, and Plain Player every 8 days. Most recently, Media Player was updated on November 3, 2026 and Plain Player on October 25, 2026.

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