CMSPlayer vs BeeJoy
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.
BeeJoy
This app acts as a versatile local video player, supporting various network protocols and media servers. It offers advanced features like HDR/DV display and Dolby Atmos for an enhanced viewing experience, along with IPTV playlist integration.
- WEBDAV/SMB/FTP/SFTP/NFS support
- Emby/Jellyfin/Plex/fnOS integration
- IPTV playlist playback
- HDR/DV original image display
- Dolby Atmos support
- Remote/local Blu-ray ISO playback
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- Support WebDAV / SMB / FTP / SFTP / NFS - Support Emby / Jellyfin / Plex / fnOS - Support IPTV Playlists - Support HDR / Dolby Vision original image display - Support Dolby Atmos - Support remote or local playback of Blu-ray ISO files and BDMV folders - More useful features waiting for you to discover...
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: BeeJoy at Free against CMSPlayer's $2.99. BeeJoy also leads on device support (6 vs 4) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). CMSPlayer's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and ratings volume (158 vs 13). On review sentiment, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
BeeJoy is free to download; CMSPlayer costs $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 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CMSPlayer has 158 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of CMSPlayer's written reviews are positive against 84% of BeeJoy's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
CMSPlayer ships an update every 9 days, BeeJoy fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CMSPlayer | BeeJoy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (158 ratings) — better | 4.5 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 84.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 158 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #39 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Vision Pro | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 108 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yuzhou Zhuang | 伟锋 李 |
Customer experience
CMSPlayer
BeeJoy
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
BeeJoy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CMSPlayer
No in-app purchases
BeeJoy
No in-app purchases
