8player vs SCORPIO PLAYER 2025
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
8player
This versatile media player allows you to stream, download, and enjoy videos, music, and photos from various sources. It offers a clean interface, offline playback, and supports a wide range of file formats across iOS and Apple TV devices.
- Stream from cloud and network services
- Download for offline playback
- Supports DLNA/UPnP, SMB, FTP
- Wide range of video, audio, and image format support
- Create and manage music playlists
- Cast to DLNA and Chromecast devices
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Enjoy your media, your way. 8player is an all-in-one video, music and photo player for iPhone and iPad. Stream, download and enjoy your favorite media anytime, anywhere. Available on the App Store since 2010, 8player combines powerful playback, flexible connectivity and a clean, intuitive design. WHY 8PLAYER? • Beautiful and intuitive interface • Smooth streaming from cloud storage, NAS devices and network servers • Available on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV • Your media stays private. 8player does not collect your data PLAY FROM ALL YOUR SOURCES • DLNA/UPnP media servers • SMB network shares • FTP and SFTP servers • Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive • Local files on your device PACKED WITH FEATURES • Download files for offline playback • Play on TVs and other devices using DLNA, Chromecast and AirPlay • Create and manage music playlists • Use subtitles and switch between multiple audio tracks • Adjust playback speed • Continue watching with Picture in Picture • Use intuitive gesture controls • Access compatible DLNA/UPnP servers remotely over mobile networks or through a VPN Remote access setup guide: https://08software.com/8player-remote-access SUPPORTED FORMATS • Video: mp4, mkv, avi, mov, ts, webm and more • Audio: mp3, flac, aac, alac, wav and more • Images: heic, jpeg, png, gif, tiff and more Your media. Your device. Your control. Standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
SCORPIO PLAYER 2025
This app is a versatile media player for Apple devices, supporting a wide range of file formats and sources. It offers features like subtitle generation, live translation, and integration with debrid and media servers for seamless streaming and content management.
- Plays any video, audio, image, or playlist file
- Supports debrid services and media servers
- AI subtitle generation and live translation
- Resume playback and control playback speed
- Dark and light theme options
- Cross-device sync for playback progress and watchlists
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Scorpio Player is the ultimate modern video player app for your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Silicon devices. It lets you play any video, audio, image, or playlist file with ease and convenience. It is a iOS native video player: Experience the best video playback quality with the iOS native video player and its powerful decoding engine. You can also control the playback speed, resume playback, enable hardware acceleration. With Scorpio Player, you can enjoy the following features: plays everything from anywhere You can also access your favorite content from various sources, such as debrid services, scorpio player server, web servers, cloud services, indexers, and more. from Files to OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, DropBox, SAMBA/CIFS, SFTP/SSH/WebDAV, Specially Scorpio Media Server for high performance lossless streaming, from your home Windows PC, Docker server to mobile device - SCORPIO+ service: Discover movies and TV shows with metadata, watch trailers, add to your Watchlist, view trending and popular titles, and more. You can also search movies and TV shows and open IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, and Metacritic websites with one tap. - SCORPIO+ user account: Create multiple profiles to have separate browse history and continue watching where you left off from your last session. - SCORPIO+ service provide syncs with your account to configure favorite media collection settings specific to your account. - SCORPIO+ service provide syncs your playback progress across your devices. - SCORPIO+ service provide syncs your watchlists across your devices. - Use AI Subtitle generation and trascription - Search for and download subtitles within the app for your video content. - Live translation available for foreign language subtitles for you. - Built-in web browser transfer server from you device: Transfer files from your Mac/PC/Devices by using Browser to your device with a simple tap. - Debrid services support: Stream content from your own account from Real-debrid, All-debrid, Premiumize.me, and other debrid services. - Media Server Support: Connect to your own Scorpio Media Server to access your media library anytime, anywhere. Now also compatible with Jellyfin Media Server and Emby Media Server. - Web servers support: Stream content from you own WebDAV, SFTP, FTP, NFS, SMB/CIFS, SMB2, IPTV m3u Playlist, Dropbox, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, ASP.NET File Server, and more. - Download client support: Link to download client aria2, Synology Download Station, and other download clients to enqueue your next download task. - Indexers integration with SCORPIO+: Browse and search content from Jackett API, Sonarr API, Radarr API, and other indexers. - Dark and light theme: Choose between dark and light theme to suit your preference and device settings. - Multiple languages support: Enjoy Scorpio Player in English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, and more languages. - support Format mp4, mkv, mp3, avi, rmvb, flac, webm, opus, wav, m2ts, flv, mpg, m3u, mov, vob, mpeg, wma, f4v, rm, H264, H265, HEVC,VP9, AV1 and other mainstream format and codecs. - support subtitles format srt, ssa, ass, sup, lrc, smi, MicroDVD, SubRip, Substationalpha, SubViewer, ttml, WEBVTT, Youtube specific XML format, HDMV PGS Image Subtitle and other mainstream formats. And Lyrics! Scorpio Player is the ultimate media player app for your Apple devices. Download it today and enjoy your media like never before. Terms of Use (EULA) REF: https://spimdb.scorpioplayer.com/documents/tou_eula.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SCORPIO PLAYER 2025 at 4.6 against 8player's 2.8. SCORPIO PLAYER 2025 also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.6). 8player's advantage is ratings volume (177 vs 11). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. 8player sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per year and SCORPIO PLAYER 2025 sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
SCORPIO PLAYER 2025 holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 8player has 177 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of 8player's written reviews are positive against 50% of SCORPIO PLAYER 2025's.
8player ships an update fortnightly, SCORPIO PLAYER 2025 every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 8player | SCORPIO PLAYER 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (177 ratings) | 4.6 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.2% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 177 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 96 MB | 316 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 8soft Ltd | SCORPIOX, INC LIMITED |
Customer experience
8player
SCORPIO PLAYER 2025
Bugs and requests
8player
Reported bugs
4 issues- SMB connectivity issues after recent updates
- Subtitles not displaying correctly for some video files
- Playback freezes or stops when minimizing the app
- Inconsistent behavior when playing next/previous tracks
Requested features
5 requests- Add gapless playback for music
- Implement a more robust file sorting/browsing system
- Integrate Chromecast support
- Introduce an equalizer for audio customization
- Add password/security protection options
SCORPIO PLAYER 2025
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
8player
- Pro Annual7 Days trial$9.991 Year
SCORPIO PLAYER 2025
- SCORPIO+ PREMIUM$2.991 Month









