Fotoshow Lite vs Smart Media Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fotoshow Lite
Create and play photo slideshows with music on your iPhone or iPod. Customize transitions, add background music, and control individual photo settings like display time and text overlays. Organize photos into albums and synchronize audio with video length.
- Create photo slideshows with music
- Customizable transition effects
- Add background music from library
- Control individual photo settings
- Add text and date overlays
- Organize photos into albums
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A tool for you to make and play photo slide show with music on iPhone / iPod. Professional user interface and very easy to use. Choose from transition effects for your slideshow. Choose background music for your album. And multiple music files for a single slide show is supported. Easily control for individual photos. Select different display times and transition settings for individual photos. You can add text, photo date on your photo. Easily to organize your photos into multiple albums. Auto/manual synchronize audio & video length. Features: add photo from iphone/ipod library add music from iphone/ipod library playing queue editable transition effects adjustable batch set transition and interval duration batch set slideshow image titles auto fit screen/full fill screen rotation lock/unlock sleep mode enable/disable transition effect preview copy slideshow email photos
Smart Media Player
Control video playback hands-free using facial expressions. Advanced face tracking allows you to pause, play, and forward videos without touching your device. Features include sleep detection and smart timers for an enhanced viewing experience.
- Facial expression video control
- Hands-free playback
- Advanced face tracking
- Sleep detection
- Inattentive mode
- Smart timers
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Smart Media Player (SMP) allows you to control video playback using facial expressions. Pause, play, and forward videos hands-free with advanced face tracking technology. The app also includes sleep detection, inattentive mode, and smart timers for a seamless viewing experience.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Smart Media Player at 4.8 against Fotoshow Lite's 1.0. Smart Media Player also leads on ratings volume (15 vs 1). Fotoshow Lite's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). On price, update cadence, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Smart Media Player holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Smart Media Player has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Fotoshow Lite ships an update every 2 months, Smart Media Player every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fotoshow Lite | Smart Media Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.8 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 8.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ZHENG WANG | Satya Venkata Krishna Achanta |
Customer experience
Fotoshow Lite
Smart Media Player
In-app purchases
Fotoshow Lite
No in-app purchases
Smart Media Player
No in-app purchases
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