CMSPlayer vs iPlay
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, 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.
iPlay
Watch your videos anytime with this powerful media player. It supports adding Emby sites as content providers, offering a convenient way to access your media library across devices.
- Powerful video playback
- Emby content provider support
- Cross-platform compatibility
- Watch videos anytime
- Access media library
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A powerful video player that supports playback of various video formats. Add your media sources and enjoy watching your videos anytime, anywhere. Terms of Use: [https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/](https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: CMSPlayer at 80% against iPlay's 17%. CMSPlayer also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.6) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). iPlay'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
iPlay is free to download; CMSPlayer costs $2.99 up front. iPlay sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. CMSPlayer asks for nothing beyond the download.
CMSPlayer holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CMSPlayer has 160 ratings behind it against 5, 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 17% of iPlay's.
CMSPlayer ships an update every 9 days, iPlay weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CMSPlayer | iPlay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (160 ratings) — better | 3.6 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 16.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 160 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Vision Pro | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 281 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Yuzhou Zhuang | Guangzhou Panyu Huanyu Life Software Studio |
Customer experience
CMSPlayer
iPlay
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
iPlay
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CMSPlayer
No in-app purchases
iPlay
- Monthly Pass$0.991 Month
- Yearly Pass$1.991 Year
- Lifetime Pass$4.99









