mconnect Player Lite vs HEOS 3D
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
mconnect Player Lite
Stream your videos, photos, and music to various devices like smart TVs and speakers. Enjoy gapless playback and support for high-quality audio formats. This version offers core media streaming functionalities.
- Stream video, photo, and music
- Support for UPnP and Google Cast
- Gapless playback
- DSD and FLAC audio playback
- Stream from cloud services
- Send media to AirPlay devices
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mconnect Player is a media player app to support UPnP/DLNA and Google Cast(Chromecast). - Send Video/Photo/Music to UPnP and Google Cast (Chromecast) devices. - Gapless Playback by App and to UPnP renderers. - DSD and FLAC music playback by App. - Play TIDAL, Qobuz and Bugs music & video to UPnP and Google Cast devices. - Send media files to Apple AirPlay compatible devices from PC, NAS and Internet. === mconnect Player Lite is a compact version of mconnect Player. This version does not have full functions of mconnect Player, such as Track Sorting, Folder Bookmarking, and Remembering Renderer. === You can play media files from any Servers to any Playback Devices with mconnect Player. [Media Servers] - Your iPhone and iPad. - UPnP compatible servers: PC and NAS. - Internet Music integrated into App: TIDAL, Qobuz and Bugs. - Cloud Server integrated into App: OneDrive and Dropbox. [Playback Devices] - Your iPhone and iPad. - UPnP compatible renderers: Smart TV, UPnP supported Audio, UPnP receivers. - Google Cast: Chromecast, Google Cast compatible Audio. - AirPlay compatible devices: Apple TV, Airport Express, AirPlay Audio. Note: If you send a media file to a remote playback device, the playable media format depends on the media decoder in the remote playback device. iPhone, iPad, AirPlay, Apple TV, and AirPort Express are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. Google Cast and Chromecast are registered trademarks of Google Inc. DLNA is a trademark of Digital Living Network Alliance. UPnP is a certification mark of the UPnP Forum in the United States and other countries. TIDAL is a trademark of ASPIRO AB. Qobuz is a trademark of XANDRIE SA. Bugs is a trademark of NHN Bugs Corp.
HEOS 3D
Explore home audio systems in augmented reality. Visualize how speakers and AVRs fit into your space, understand their functionality, and learn about multiroom audio setups before you buy.
- Augmented reality product visualization
- Interactive HEOS technology exploration
- Multiroom audio setup simulation
- Surround sound system configuration
- Product feature explanations
- X-ray function for speaker internals
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Use HEOS 3D’s augmented reality to explore in-depth how HEOS technology can bring new experiences to your home cinema, and fill your home with music. Thanks to its augmented reality technology, HEOS 3D can not only get you under the skin of HEOS products, but also find out how they work together to create not just surround-sound systems, also multiroom audio, allowing you to enjoy music wherever you want – and all without wires. HEOS 3D gives you a highly intuitive way of exploring our products, whether at home or in the shop, with pop-up explanations overlaid on your ‘real world’ view via your device’s camera. Move around the products to find out more, or zoom in on things you want to study more closely. You can also visualise how the products will fit into your home, and indeed see how they mix and match together – all in real-time and before your eyes. Watch as the app sets up a complete surround system in your room, or see how easy it is to add extra wireless speakers and access your own music, streaming services or even Internet radio stations from around the world. The app will show you how easy it is to connect a HEOS product, from your first speaker to the HEOS AVR at the heart of your home cinema system, and then explore features from music streaming to setting up surround sound, and the way everything is controlled using the simple HEOS control app. Explore the display and features of the new HEOS AVR, and even get inside the HEOS 1/3/5/7 speakers with a unique x-ray function, to see how they make music sound so good. At home you can scan the HEOS AVR card, and learn all about our smart surround solutions, or scan the HEOS flyer to explore multiroom streaming, while in-store you can scan codes on the products themselves for instant information before you buy. How does it work? It’s simple: download this free HEOS 3D app, then scan a code on the AVR card, the free flyer or even on the products in-store (see above), and start exploring HEOS using augmented reality. Both the card and the flyer are available from your local Denon retailer, or you can download and print them from the website link below. Then just scan – and let your HEOS adventure begin!
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Verdict
mconnect Player Lite and HEOS 3D both sit at 3.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 62% of mconnect Player Lite's written reviews are positive against 0% of HEOS 3D's. mconnect Player Lite also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (41 vs 7). HEOS 3D's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.5 for mconnect Player Lite against 3.6 for HEOS 3D. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: mconnect Player Lite has 41 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 62% of mconnect Player Lite's written reviews are positive against 0% of HEOS 3D's.
mconnect Player Lite ships an update every 3 weeks, HEOS 3D every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and August 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | mconnect Player Lite | HEOS 3D |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (41 ratings) | 3.6 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 41 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 174 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ConversDigital Co., Ltd. | D&M Holdings |
Customer experience
mconnect Player Lite
HEOS 3D
Bugs and requests
mconnect Player Lite
Reported bugs
4 issues- Tracks not playing in correct order
- Unable to connect to some NAS devices
- Album art not displaying properly
- Streaming issues after long periods of use
Requested features
5 requests- Add gapless playback
- Implement playlist/queue management features
- Add support for landscape mode on iPad
- Integrate Spotify support
- Improve Chromecast video casting
HEOS 3D
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
mconnect Player Lite
No in-app purchases
HEOS 3D
No in-app purchases
Questions
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