Web Images Lite vs Plain Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Web Images Lite
Browse websites and set any image as your wallpaper. This app collects images from web pages, allowing you to view them full screen, save them to your photo roll, or use them as wallpapers. It also provides features to manage website links and bookmarks.
- Browse websites for images
- Set images as wallpaper
- Save images to photo roll
- Table and list view of images
- Save website bookmarks
- View images from any URL (upgrade)
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Description Browse the web and set any image from a website as your wallpaper. This application collects the images from web pages (HTML and CSS). Click the image to see it full screen and take a screenshot so that you can use it as your wallpaper image or just save the image to the photo roll. More Features: - table and list view of the images - different backgrounds in full screen mode - it collects the links of the website so that it is easy to start at the home page and follow the links until you reach the page with the images you want - save bookmarks - toggle word wrap (tap on source) - open the URL in the web browser and send it by email - view images from any URL (after upgrade)
Plain Player
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Plain player: a simple, convenient and very lite video & audio player. It can play many popular video formats like avi, mp4, mkv… and almost audio formats. It has various settings that can help you easily to watch videos & audio in the way you want. It supports many gestures like double-tap, swipe to seek, change brightness, volume and zoom. You can easily choose the orientation of the video, so that you don’t need to change your device orientation setting whenever watching movie. It can also support local subtitle. You can transfer subtitle file with the same name of the video to the same folder, and it will automatically show when you play video. Currently it only support srt format, but in the future, it can support other formats, too. You can import video & audio files using a computer, or using app Files or Photos to copy video & audio files on your device to the app. The app interface is very simple, plain and intuitive, so you can easily know how to use all the features of app on the first sight. It has some sort options and search function to help you find the video & audio you want. You can also edit metadata of mp3 files. It even has a web view inside used to watch YouTube videos without ads. On iPad, you can watch up to 4K videos. So you don’t need to open your browser app when you need to watch YouTube videos. The youtube player also supports some gestures like swipe to seek, change brightness and volume. Now you can listen to your youtube video/music while screen is turned off with picture in picture mode.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Web Images Lite at none against Plain Player's shown. Web Images Lite also leads on iOS requirement (6.0 vs 16.0). Plain Player's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 14 months). On price, 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. Web Images Lite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Plain Player sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Web Images Lite ships an update every 14 months, Plain Player every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Web Images Lite | Plain Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Piet Jonas | Son Hoang Thai |
In-app purchases
Web Images Lite
- Web Images Upgrade$0.99
Plain Player
- Remove ads forever$4.99
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