UnPlay vs CMSPlayer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
UnPlay
Enhance your home with a customizable clock and DLNA receiver. Stream videos from web pages, enjoy diverse clock styles with sound effects, and control playback with various options. Personalize your experience with different app icons and clock formats.
- DLNA video streaming
- Customizable clock styles
- Scene sound effects
- Playlist creation
- Playback controls
- Video rotation
- Multiple clock formats
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UnPlay is a clock and DLNA receiver app that offers users a variety of scene-based experiences. Different clock styles are specially designed for iPhone, with added scene sound effects to bring more fun to home life. Various app icon styles are available and can be switched at will. DLNA screen receiver 1. HTTP Push: Push videos from web pages and combine them into a playlist. 2. Support for next track (on-demand, live streams, songs) on HomePod and Tmall Genie — an essential feature for Apple TV. 3. Single-track loop playback (ideal for children's songs, music, and MV playback). 4. Player menu options (playback speed, audio track selection, subtitle track selection, screen flip, aspect ratio adjustment, playlist loop mode). 5. Video rotation (default, 90°, 180°, 270°). 6. Looping modes: continuous loop, single track loop, playlist loop. 7. Aspect ratio options (stretch to fill, fit to screen). 8. Support DLNA · Server · Log · Debug Clock 1. Switch between 24-hour and 12-hour formats. 2. Show or hide seconds. 3. Various clock styles: flip clock, minimalist clock, square clock, LED clock, vintage clock.
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 and iPad - 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 rating: CMSPlayer at 4.8 against UnPlay's 3.9. CMSPlayer also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 67%) and ratings volume (156 vs 18). UnPlay's advantage is chart position (#98 vs unranked) and price ($1.99 vs $2.99). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
UnPlay costs $1.99 and CMSPlayer $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
CMSPlayer holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CMSPlayer has 156 ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of UnPlay'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 September 21, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | UnPlay | CMSPlayer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 3.9 (18 ratings) | 4.8 (156 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 18 | 156 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #98 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Vision Pro |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Changzhou Yizhong Yijia Health Management Co., Ltd. | Yuzhou Zhuang |
Customer experience
UnPlay
CMSPlayer
In-app purchases
UnPlay
No in-app purchases
CMSPlayer
No in-app purchases
