Comparison

CMSPlayer vs Reflix

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

Reflix

Discover trending movies and shows, track your viewing progress, and get smart recommendations. Seamlessly switch between Emby services, sync history across devices, and manage your favorites in one place. Enjoy an enhanced audio-visual experience with third-party player support.

Highlights
  • Discover trending movies and shows
  • Track viewing progress
  • Connect multiple Emby services
  • Smart content recommendations
  • Seamless resource switching
  • Multi-device synced viewing history
  • Centralized favorites management
Features
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Find your next favorite. Pick up where you left off. Reflix brings movie discovery, Emby playback and TV tracking together. Compare ratings, find a version in your libraries, keep up with your series and turn your watch history into a monthly recap. FIND THE FILM FIRST. CHOOSE A LIBRARY LATER. Explore IMDb top-rated titles, Rotten Tomatoes fresh picks and Douban trending charts. Browse by genre, studio or airing schedule, then save movies, shows and anime to Watch Later. Your watchlist is ready whenever you are. SEE THE RATINGS SIDE BY SIDE Compare IMDb, Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes, Trakt and more on one detail page, alongside the synopsis, cast and trailers. Spend less time looking things up and more time finding something you want to watch. Details update independently of your media server. BRING YOUR EMBY LIBRARIES TOGETHER Connect Emby on your NAS and your other Emby servers in one place. See available versions of a title across your libraries, then choose which to play. Manage multiple connection routes and paste server details to fill in the address and account automatically. KEEP UP WITH EVERY EPISODE See what airs today, what's coming next and how many episodes you have left. Bring viewing history from multiple libraries together, import existing progress and keep Want to Watch, Watching and Watched organized. PLAY IT YOUR WAY Switch episodes, versions and audio tracks from the player. Find subtitles online, adjust their appearance and use ASS subtitles. Intro and outro skipping and frame previews while seeking help you get back to the part you want to watch. PICK UP ON ANOTHER SCREEN Use iCloud to sync lists, playback progress and watch history across iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. Enjoy a big-screen experience designed for the remote, plus iPhone and iPad Home Screen widgets for Continue Watching, series progress and your viewing calendar. MAKE EVERY MONTH WORTH LOOKING BACK ON Turn your viewing history into a visual journal with a poster wall, calendar, watch time and monthly favorites. Discover your favorite genres and viewing habits, then share your month as a recap card. Start with your next watch. Build a viewing story that's yours. Playback requires your own Emby media library. Reflix does not supply movies or TV shows. Some features require Reflix Pro. Terms of Use: https://reflix.top/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://reflix.top/privacy/

Screenshots

CMSPlayer4 screens
Reflix4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Reflix at Free against CMSPlayer's $2.99. CMSPlayer's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 3.7) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). 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

Reflix is free to download; CMSPlayer costs $2.99 up front. Reflix sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 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 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CMSPlayer has 158 ratings behind it against 17, 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 62% of Reflix's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CMSPlayer ships an update every 9 days, Reflix weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
CMSPlayer versus Reflix: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCMSPlayerReflix
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (158 ratings) — better3.7 (17 ratings)
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews — better61.9% of reviews
Number of ratings158 — better17
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#172 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple TV
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB88 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperYuzhou Zhuang晶晶 许

Customer experience

CMSPlayer

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

Reflix

All ratings17 ratings
Positive64.7%
Neutral5.9%
Negative29.4%
Written reviews42 reviews
Positive61.9%
Neutral2.4%
Negative35.7%

User reviews

CMSPlayer

From 158 App Store ratings

What 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

Reflix

From 17 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 UI design is beautiful
  • 💡 Innovative recommendation page
  • 👍 One-stop for search, watch, record
  • 👍 Good user experience
  • 👍 Aesthetically pleasing

Room to improve

  • 😞 Developers have run away
  • 😞 No updates after payment
  • 😞 Buggy software
  • 😞 No cache for player
  • 😞 Cannot add Emby service

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

Reflix

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Emby service cannot be added
  • Many bugs
  • Player has no cache
  • Cannot add external subtitles
  • Does not support Dolby Vision decoding
Show 2 more
  • Crashes on macOS
  • Return button not functional

Requested features

8 requests
  • Update Apple TV app
  • Update iPad app
  • Lifetime subscription option
  • Support Dolby Vision
  • Support Trakt integration
Show 3 more
  • Adjust playback speed increments
  • Optimize macOS version
  • Add Apple TV version

In-app purchases

None

CMSPlayer

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Reflix

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Annually$12.991 Year
One-time2
  • Life time$9.99
  • Lifetime$24.99

Questions

Is CMSPlayer free?
CMSPlayer costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Reflix free?
Reflix is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, CMSPlayer or Reflix?
CMSPlayer is rated higher. CMSPlayer averages 4.8 out of 5 from 158 ratings, while Reflix averages 3.7 from 17 ratings.
Do CMSPlayer or Reflix have ads?
Neither CMSPlayer nor Reflix shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CMSPlayer or Reflix?
CMSPlayer ships an update every 9 days, and Reflix weekly. Most recently, CMSPlayer was updated on October 18, 2026 and Reflix on October 19, 2026.

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