Comparison

SPECTAREA vs SNPlayer

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

Head to head
About

SPECTAREA

Experience three-dimensional images without special glasses. Explore immersive 3D landscapes, architecture, and objects through a unique viewing technique. Unlock more content with the PRO version for an expanded journey into the third dimension.

Highlights
  • 3D image viewing without glasses
  • Explore 3D landscapes and objects
  • Special viewing technique required
  • Includes instructions and tips
  • SPECTAREA-PRO for more content
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Discover a new dimension of vision. SPECTAREA opens your way into the third dimension even without special glasses. On a magical stage the curtain opens and suddenly three-dimensional images appear ... three-dimensional landscapes ... three-dimensional architecture ... three-dimensional objects ... three-dimensional worlds. Get the SPECTAREA app on your iPhone or iPad and just try out if you can succeed the exciting journey into the third dimension. But you’ll need to look at SPECTAREA by using a special technique. As a help, you will also find some mysterious instructions and several tips And then you can also discover the entire three-dimensional world of SPECTAREA-PRO with many more magical images and numerous mysterious phenomena.

About

SNPlayer

Stream your M3U playlists with this intuitive player for live TV, movies, and series. Enjoy buffer-free HD playback, organized content, and a user-friendly interface with gesture controls. Supports AirPlay and Picture-in-Picture for seamless viewing across devices.

Highlights
  • M3U/M3U8 playlist support
  • Xtream Codes login
  • Live TV and VOD streaming
  • EPG TV Guide
  • AirPlay and Picture-in-Picture
  • Gesture controls
  • Parental controls
Features
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SNPlayer plays your own M3U and Xtream Codes playlists on iPhone and iPad. You bring the playlist, SNPlayer turns it into an app: live TV with categories and favourites, a TV guide, and your movies and series on a poster wall that remembers where you stopped. YOUR PLAYLISTS Add M3U and M3U8 playlists by URL, or sign in with Xtream Codes. SNPlayer keeps the categories your playlist already has, so channels, movies and series land where they belong. Channel logos come from the playlist when it carries them, and from a clean numbered tile when it does not. LIVE TV Browse by category, star the channels you actually watch, and switch channel from inside the player. Now and next appear on the channel rows as soon as an EPG is loaded. TV GUIDE A full timeline with a now line, a day picker, and a reminder you can set for a programme that has not started yet. The guide is only as good as the EPG your provider supplies, and SNPlayer tells you when there is none instead of showing empty rows. MOVIES AND SERIES Posters, genres and search. Series are grouped by season and episode. Continue watching picks up where you left off, and My List keeps the things you meant to get back to. SEARCH One search across channels, movies and series, with the live results kept apart from the on demand ones. PICTURE IN PICTURE AND AIRPLAY HLS and MP4 streams play in Picture in Picture and send picture and sound to Apple TV over AirPlay. Streams that need the fallback engine, which is MPEG TS, MKV, RTMP and the other formats AVFoundation cannot open at all, play inside the app, and there AirPlay carries the sound only. PROFILES Profiles live on the device, each with its own My List, continue watching and recents. Nothing is uploaded and there is no account to make. FOR LATE EVENINGS A sleep timer that stops playback after 15 to 120 minutes. A PIN lock on the app. Dark and light with four accent colours, and a layout built for both iPhone and iPad. FREE • one playlist • live TV with categories and favourites • search • one profile SNPLAYER PRO • unlimited playlists • the full TV guide • movies and series, with My List and continue watching • profiles • Picture in Picture • AirPlay • sleep timer • PIN lock Pro is a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one time lifetime purchase. Prices are set by the App Store for your country and are shown in the app before you buy anything, so see in-app for the current price in your currency. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and it can be managed or cancelled in Settings, Apple Account, Subscriptions. The lifetime purchase is paid once and does not renew. Anyone who already bought Pro in an earlier version keeps it. SNPlayer is a media player. We do not provide, host or distribute any TV channels, streams or media content, and there is nothing to watch in the app until you add a playlist you obtained legally yourself. Privacy policy: https://snplayer.app/privacy.html Terms of use: https://snplayer.app/terms.html

Screenshots

SPECTAREA4 screens
SNPlayer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: SNPlayer at 100% against SPECTAREA's 0%. SNPlayer also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly). SPECTAREA's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. SNPlayer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. SPECTAREA asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SPECTAREA ships an update monthly, SNPlayer weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
SPECTAREA versus SNPlayer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSPECTAREASNPlayer
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—6 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size137 MB57 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoachim HartwigSN Web

Customer experience

SPECTAREA

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

SNPlayer

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

SPECTAREA

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

SNPlayer

Subscriptions2
  • SNPlayer Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • SNPlayer Pro Yearly$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • SNPlayer Pro - Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is SPECTAREA free?
SPECTAREA is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SNPlayer free?
SNPlayer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SPECTAREA or SNPlayer have ads?
Neither SPECTAREA nor SNPlayer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SPECTAREA or SNPlayer?
SPECTAREA ships an update monthly, and SNPlayer weekly. Most recently, SPECTAREA was updated on October 2, 2026 and SNPlayer on October 9, 2026.

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