SenPlayer vs CMSPlayer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SenPlayer
This app is a powerful multimedia player supporting 4K/8K video, high frame rates, and HDR. It streams from various cloud services and media servers, offering a seamless playback experience with custom controls and advanced subtitle support.
- 4K/8K Ultra-HD playback
- Supports Plex, Emby, Jellyfin media servers
- Stream from cloud services (WebDAV, SMB, FTP)
- Custom gesture controls
- Blu-ray ISO disc playback
- Enhanced subtitle support
- Cross-device sync
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SenPlayer — Your personal media player, wherever you are. Enjoy videos from local storage, cloud drives, NAS, and your favorite media servers on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. From catching up on a series while traveling to movie night at home, make every title in your collection a pleasure to watch. • Your Media, Connected Connect to Emby, Jellyfin, Plex, and fnOS, or access your computer and NAS via SMB, WebDAV, and FTP. Stream from 115, 123 Cloud Drive, Aliyun Drive, and Baidu Netdisk, bringing your media sources together in one place. • Stunning Picture, Immersive Sound Enjoy popular formats including MKV, MP4, and MOV, with support for 4K, 8K, 120fps, hdr high resolution and high-frame-rate video.While Atmos and spatial audio deliver immersive sound with compatible media and devices. • Explore Your Blu-ray Collection Play Blu-ray ISO files, browse disc playlists, and navigate chapters. Switch between the main feature, bonus material, and other included content without extracting or converting files beforehand. • Enhance Your Viewing Experience On supported devices, use AI upscaling to improve clarity, frame interpolation for smoother motion, or SDR-to-HDR conversion to expand brightness range. Choose the ßenhancements that suit your videos and viewing preferences. • Your Collection, Beautifully Organized Browse posters, synopses, ratings, and cast details in your media libraries. Search across servers to find what you want, and bookmark favorite videos and folders for easy access. Keep everyday favorites close at hand as your collection grows. • Subtitles and Danmaku, Your Way Use embedded subtitles, load external files, or search for subtitles online. Display two subtitle tracks at once for movies or language learning. Adjust fonts, size, color, position, and timing during playback, with support for Simplified and Traditional Chinese subtitle conversion. Import danmaku files or connect custom sources, then personalize the style, speed, and display area of on-screen comments. • Flexible Playback, Everyday Convenience Adjust playback speed, switch audio tracks, navigate chapters, and skip intros and credits. Preview the timeline to find a scene, use Picture in Picture while multitasking, or casting and external display support bring your viewing experience to a bigger screen. • Pick Up Across Devices Sync server configurations, favorites, and playback history through iCloud. Add a media source on your iPhone and browse it on your iPad, Mac, or Apple TV. Continue Watching takes you back to where you left off, so it’s easy to move from one screen to another.
CMSPlayer
This app provides a seamless playback experience for VOD sources, offering features like playback speed adjustment, AirPlay, and Picture in Picture. It allows users to manage multiple sources, search for content, and track watch history. Optimized for Apple devices, it integrates with iCloud for cross-platform syncing.
- Seamless playback experience
- Playback speed adjustment
- AirPlay and Picture in Picture support
- Manage multiple VOD sources
- Aggregate search with history
- iCloud sync across platforms
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Cross-platform player for VOD sources. # Show and Episodes - Seamless play experience - Native app UI/UX, optimized for iPhone, iPhone Duo, iPad, Apple TV and Vision Pro - Display shows in grid or list - Browse show details including actors and descriptions - Quickly navigate to an episode with segment or season selection - Sort episodes alphabetically or in reverse order # Play experience - Playback speed adjustment - AirPlay, Picture in Picture, SharePlay - Auto-play next episode - Pan horizontally to adjust playback progress - Pan vertically to adjust brightness and volume - Skip intro and outro with manual configuration - Auto-playback from last seen timestamp - tvOS/visionOS: Next episode button in info view # Search - Aggregate search - Search history - Option to enable exact match # Manage my stuff - Favorite - Watch history - Navigate to show from history # Source management - Manage multiple sources - Edit, delete or sort sources - Hide certain sources - Import sources from JSON - Export sources to JSON - Manually add source # Apple feature integration - iCloud sync across all platforms (can be disabled) - tvOS TopShelf Icon Attribution: Television icons created by Freepik - Flaticon https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/television Disclaimer: This app doesn't provide, contain or distribute any VOD or video sources. All sources are provided and entered by the users. Users must provide copyright-free contents or ensure they have acquired the copyrights to play videos in CMSPlayer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: SenPlayer at Free against CMSPlayer's $2.99. SenPlayer also leads on ratings volume (1.2K vs 160). CMSPlayer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and chart position (#146 vs unranked). On rating, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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
SenPlayer is free to download; CMSPlayer costs $2.99 up front. SenPlayer sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. CMSPlayer asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for SenPlayer against 4.7 for CMSPlayer. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SenPlayer has 1.2K ratings behind it against 160, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 84% of SenPlayer's written reviews are positive against 80% of CMSPlayer's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SenPlayer | CMSPlayer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.2K ratings) | 4.7 (160 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.8% of reviews — better | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.2K — better | 160 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #146 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Vision Pro |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 137 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 军 王 | Yuzhou Zhuang |
Customer experience
SenPlayer
CMSPlayer
User reviews
SenPlayer
From 1.2K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great app with many features
- 🚀 Smooth and fast playback
- 💡 Highly customizable interface
- 🔒 No ads or data collection
- 🔥 Excellent Jellyfin/Emby support
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional crashes or playback issues
- 🔋 High battery consumption on some devices
- 💤 Lack of AirPlay support
- 📚 Limited subtitle customization options
CMSPlayer
From 160 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple, lightweight, excellent
- 👍 Powerful app, has most things
- 👍 Very easy to use
- 👍 Solved Apple TV viewing issues
- 👍 Great interface, powerful features
Room to improve
- 🐛 Account banned inexplicably
- 🐛 Few resources, inactive community
- 🐛 Too many ads, intrusive
- 🐛 App crashes on Apple TV
- 🐛 App seems abandoned
Bugs and requests
SenPlayer
Reported bugs
4 issues- Playback issues with certain video formats (e.g., TS, ISO)
- SMB connection problems on some networks
- Subtitle display bugs in landscape mode
- Inconsistent behavior when using Bluetooth headphones
Requested features
5 requests- Add support for Plex, Google Drive, and other cloud storage
- Implement a playlist feature
- Allow dual subtitle display
- Provide an Apple TV version of the app
- Add a download option for media files
CMSPlayer
Reported bugs
5 issues- iOS 18.1 system crashes
- Apple TV version keeps crashing
- App keeps prompting for rating
- Playback interface cannot switch episodes
- Playback interface cannot adjust brightness
Requested features
8 requests- Add more high-quality, ad-free sources
- Improve built-in player for smoother scrubbing
- Support Android TV Box protocol
- Add more protocols and fix UI
- Add iOS 12 system version
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- Add more high-quality web sources
- Add new features
- Add more high-quality web sources
In-app purchases
SenPlayer
- Lifetime Pro(Upgrade to Suite)$6.99
- Lifetime Pro(iPhone+iPad)$9.99
- Lifetime Pro(AppleTV)$9.99
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- Lifetime Pro(Mac)$9.99
- Lifetime Pro(Suite)$12.99
CMSPlayer
No in-app purchases








