Flux Player vs Alpha+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flux Player
Access and manage various content types like videos, audiobooks, music, and ebooks on your iPhone or iPad. It supports content from commercial services and provides cloud-based access, syncing your progress and bookmarks across devices.
- Download and access content
- Supports DVDs, videos, audiobooks, music, ebooks
- Access commercial content
- Local and cloud content management
- Syncs activities and bookmarks
- Tracks recently used content
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With Flux Player you can use your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch for download and access of content such as DVDs, videos, audio books, music, ebooks and packaged content. The content may be obtained from commercial services, products. Flux Player offers full access and different views for both local and cloud based content. It keeps track of your most recently used content and syncs your activities and bookmarks with other devices you may own.
Alpha+
This app helps elevator mechanics interact with Lykos and Lobos controllers. It provides details on alarms and faults, suggests remedies, and allows for software updates on compatible controllers.
- View alarm and fault descriptions
- Access remedy information
- Read extra bytes
- Update Lykos controller software
- Update Lobos controller software
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The Alpha+ App was designed to help elevator mechanics simplify their interaction with the Lykos and Lobos elevator controllers. Users can view alarm and fault descriptions, remedies, and extra bytes, and update software on their Lykos and Lobos Controllers.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Alpha+ at 100% against Flux Player's 22%. Alpha+ also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.8) and update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). Flux Player's advantage is ratings volume (45 vs 5) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Alpha+ holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flux Player has 45 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 22% of Flux Player's written reviews are positive against 100% of Alpha+'s.
Flux Player ships an update every 2 months, Alpha+ monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flux Player | Alpha+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (45 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 45 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Flux Digital GmbH | Alpha Elevator Control, Inc |
Customer experience
Flux Player
Alpha+
Bugs and requests
Flux Player
Reported bugs
4 issues- Login failures
- Incompatibility with newer iOS versions
- Freezing and white screens
- Inconsistent video playback quality
Requested features
4 requests- Add printing capability
- Improve highlighting and annotation tools
- Integrate with iTunes for seamless content management
- Implement sleep timer and bookmarking features
Alpha+
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Flux Player
No in-app purchases
Alpha+
No in-app purchases
