CMSPlayer vs Miru
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Miru
This media player allows users to import poster walls and manage cached videos. It supports switching between multiple multimedia services and customizing the interface. Subscription unlocks advanced features like cache management and custom UI.
- Import poster walls
- Automatic cached video deletion
- Tab visibility control
- Edit folder information
- Switch multimedia services
- Manual cache deletion
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1. Support importing poster walls. 2. Support selecting when to automatically delete cached watched videos. 3. Support choosing to show or hide tabs. 4. Support editing folder information (automatically pops up the editing page after 3 quick taps on iOS.). 5. Support switching between multiple multimedia services. 6. Support manually deleting cached images, including poster walls. Additionally,there has been an update to the settings interface. It's an alist player support xiaoya alist resources. [About subscription] -- The subscription features include cache management, custom UI, and value-added features in future versions. -- Subscription Period: 1 month (monthly subscription), 12 months (annual subscription). -- Subscription Price: $0.99 for monthly subscription, $3.99 for annual subscription. -- Payment: Upon user's confirmation and payment, it will be charged to the Tunes/Apple ID account. -- Renewal: The Apple Tunes account will be charged within 24 hours prior to expiration. After successful payment, the subscription period will be extended by one subscription period. -- Canceling Renewal: To cancel the renewal, please manually disable the automatic renewal feature in the Tunes/Apple ID settings management before 24 hours prior to the end of the current subscription period. -- Privacy Policy: http://qupfile.cloudvdn.com/privacy-pilicy-en.txt -- User Agreement: http://qupfile.cloudvdn.com/term-of-use_en.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: CMSPlayer at 80% against Miru's 0%. CMSPlayer also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 6). Miru's advantage is price (Free vs $2.99). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Miru is free to download; CMSPlayer costs $2.99 up front. Miru sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. CMSPlayer asks for nothing beyond the download.
CMSPlayer holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CMSPlayer has 158 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of CMSPlayer's written reviews are positive against 0% of Miru's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CMSPlayer | Miru |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (158 ratings) — better | 3.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 158 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Best chart rank | #116 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yuzhou Zhuang | 瑞 张 |
Customer experience
CMSPlayer
Miru
Bugs and requests
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
Miru
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CMSPlayer
No in-app purchases
Miru
- Monthly Subscription2 variants$0.991 Month
- Annual Subscription2 variants$3.991 Year
- Lifetime Subscription$3.99
- Lifetime Subscription$89.99








