MX Player vs Crowd Challenge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MX Player
This app plays almost all video formats in HD and ultra HD, offering hardware acceleration for smooth playback. It includes features like privacy protection for sensitive files, a floating pop-up player for multitasking, and advanced sound effects.
- Plays HD & Ultra HD videos
- Supports all video formats
- Hardware acceleration for smooth playback
- Privacy protection for video files
- Floating pop-up video player
- Advanced equalizer and bass booster
- Network stream video playback
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MX Media Player with full features is a simple but powerful & fast video player, which you can play HD & ultra HD videos of almost all formats on your device without any trouble! HD Video Player uses the hardware decoding, with the most smallest size and smaller memory usage, which make your video play more faster and smoother HD playback! Key Features of MX Media: - Hide video files, protect your privacy - Protect private videos via encryption, the safest place for your sensitive files. - Ultra HD video player, support 4K - Support ALL video formats - Floating pop-up Video player - Powerful equalizer & bass booster - Auto-rotation, aspect-ratio, screen-lock - Sound-switching, screen-cutting - HD video playback depth memory - Support subtitle - All Media Player - Delete, rename, share videos - Intuitive list & grid view videos - Multiple sets of stylish, gorgeous themes - Material design, simple Play Local & Network Stream Videos: HD MX Player could detect all local videos in internal storage. Built-in powerful and intuitive multimedia files manager with automatic identification of all video files on your device. The featured hot & trending online videos are all collected by HD Video Player for you. Last but not least, you could also input the video URL on the Network Stream to play whichever you want in the HD Video Player. High Quality Video Player: HD MX Player plays HD, full HD & 4k videos with a very smoothly quality, which makes you could enjoy smoother and better quality videos. Full hardware acceleration supports for faster and smoother HD video playback. In the HD Video Player, you could also easy to control volume, brightness and playing progress by swiping on playback screen. Floating pop-up Video player: HD MX Player supports to watch your videos in full screen or use the floating pop-up for multitasking. HD Video Player defaults the best size of the screen for you to enjoy the floating pop-up window. And you could move the floating pop-up window through HD Video Player wherever you want on the screen. Amazing sound effects : HD MX Player with the powerful equalizer, bass booster, and stereo surround sound effect, makes you feel like being in the cinema. Enjoy the best feel of the videos & movies freely just you want! HD MX Player is the best powerful video player for you to enjoy local & Stream online videos!HD Video Player is really easy and convenient for you to play any video without troublesome conversion. Please enjoy smooth playback of the HD Video Player experience! Play HD videos and movies now! Get unlimited access to all premium files media storage Subscribe Monthly MX Player at $1.99 and Yearly MX Player Pro at $9.99 to use ads free versions of the premium app which can cancel anytime. • Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/bhuvangupta-pp • Terms of Use: https://sites.google.com/view/bhuvangupta-tos Its powerful features like all format support like MKV playback, HD video playback, subtile support will give you the best possible movie & video watching experience!!!
Crowd Challenge
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Crowd Challenge is an interactive platform where creativity meets competition. Discover exciting challenges, showcase your talent, and engage with a growing global community of creators and participants. Whether you want to participate in trending challenges or create your own competitions, Crowd Challenge makes it simple, fun, and rewarding.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Crowd Challenge at none against MX Player's shown. MX Player's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. MX Player sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Crowd Challenge sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
MX Player ships an update every 6 weeks, Crowd Challenge every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MX Player | Crowd Challenge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (25 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Bhuvan Gupta | SACHIN NIROULA |
In-app purchases
MX Player
- MX Player Monthly$1.991 Month
- MX Player Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
Crowd Challenge
- Standard Membership - 1 Month$0.99
- Premium Membership - 1 Month$2.99
- Premium Plus Membership - 1 Month$3.99
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- Standard Membership - 1 Year$3.99
- Premium Membership - 1 Year$7.99
- Premium Plus Membership - 1 Year$12.99
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