Comparison

CMSPlayer vs Miru

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Seamless playback experience
  • Playback speed adjustment
  • AirPlay and Picture in Picture support
  • Manage multiple VOD sources
  • Aggregate search with history
  • iCloud sync across platforms
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Import poster walls
  • Automatic cached video deletion
  • Tab visibility control
  • Edit folder information
  • Switch multimedia services
  • Manual cache deletion
Features
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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

Screenshots

CMSPlayer4 screens
Miru3 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
CMSPlayer versus Miru: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCMSPlayerMiru
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (158 ratings) — better3.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings158 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
Best chart rank#116 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple TV
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB19 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperYuzhou Zhuang瑞 张

Customer experience

CMSPlayer

All ratings158 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral0.6%
Negative4.4%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

Miru

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

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
Show 3 more
  • 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

None

CMSPlayer

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Miru

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription2 variants$0.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription2 variants$3.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime Subscription$3.99
  • Lifetime Subscription$89.99

Questions

Is CMSPlayer free?
CMSPlayer costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Miru free?
Miru is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, CMSPlayer or Miru?
CMSPlayer is rated higher. CMSPlayer averages 4.8 out of 5 from 158 ratings, while Miru averages 3.0 from 3 ratings.
Do CMSPlayer or Miru have ads?
Neither CMSPlayer nor Miru shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CMSPlayer or Miru?
CMSPlayer ships an update every 9 days, and Miru every 9 days. Most recently, CMSPlayer was updated on October 14, 2026 and Miru on September 26, 2026.

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