Flux Player vs Half Staff App
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.
Half Staff App
This app sends push notifications to your iOS device, reminding you to set the American flag to half staff. It tracks presidential proclamations and pre-determined remembrance days. Users can request state-specific notifications.
- Push notifications for half staff days
- Tracks presidential proclamations
- Includes pre-determined remembrance days
- Reminders for Patriot Day, Memorial Day, etc.
- State-specific notification requests
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Never forget to set your flag to half staff again with the Half Staff App! Receive a push notification to your iOS device the night before the American flag needs to be at Half Staff. This simple app tracks when the President issues a half staff proclamation, as well as on pre-determined days such as Patriot Day, Memorial Day, Peace Officers Memorial Day and Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Do you want notifications by state? Leave a review with your state, and we'll add states based on the most reviews! Terms and Conditions found here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Half Staff App at 3.4 against Flux Player's 1.8. Half Staff App also leads on review sentiment (63% vs 22%). Flux Player's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 22 months). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. Half Staff App sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Flux Player asks for nothing beyond the download.
Half Staff App holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 1.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 45 and 97 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 22% of Flux Player's written reviews are positive against 63% of Half Staff App's.
Flux Player ships an update every 2 months, Half Staff App every 22 months. Both last shipped on October 23, 2026.
| Parameter | Flux Player | Half Staff App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (45 ratings) | 3.4 (97 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.4% of reviews | 63.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 45 | 97 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 22 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Flux Digital GmbH | The Jed Mahonis Group |
Customer experience
Flux Player
Half Staff App
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
Half Staff App
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Flux Player
No in-app purchases
Half Staff App
- Full App Access3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Full App Access3 Days trial$19.991 Year
