AllPlayer Pro vs Aether Player

AllPlayer is an all-in-one media player and manager for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro. Play local files, Photos, NAS, cloud media, and online streams, and bring your personal movies and TV shows together in one library. -- Main Features -- -- Unified Media Center -- Index folders from local storage, LAN servers, and connected cloud drives. Automatically match movies and shows, browse seasons and episodes, and search indexed content by title, cast, or filename. Pause, resume, and refresh scans. -- Versions and Personal Library -- Group sources for the same title, choose a preferred version, and correct matches or merge and split entries. Keep track of playback progress, watched items, favorites, and Watch Later. -- Custom Home and Movie Wall -- Choose and reorder home sections. Browse posters, ratings, descriptions, cast, and file details. Generate fallback artwork from video frames when online posters are unavailable. -- Video, Audio, Photos, and Images -- Play MP4, MOV, M4V, MKV, AVI, FLV, WMV, TS, MTS, M2TS, MPG, MPEG, VOB, RMVB, 3GP, WEBM, and OGV. Supports MP3, M4A, AAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF, OGG, OPUS, WMA, APE, and ALAC. Browse JPG, PNG, HEIC, GIF, BMP, TIFF, and WEBP, plus videos and images in Photos. -- ISO and Disc Folders -- Play ISO images and Blu-ray / BDMV and DVD / VIDEO_TS folders, with disc title selection where available. -- LAN and Media Servers -- Connect SMB, WebDAV, FTP, SFTP, NFS, DLNA / UPnP, Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby. Discover servers and browse NAS devices, shared folders, and home media libraries. -- Cloud Storage and NAS -- Connect OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, pCloud, Yandex.Disk, Baidu Netdisk, Quark Drive, MEGA, Synology NAS, and fnOS. fnOS supports direct connections with FN Connect fallback. -- Remote Access and Network Tools -- Use Tailscale to access media on your private network. Test internet download and upload speeds and read speeds from LAN or cloud media. -- Online Streams -- Add m3u8, FLV, MP4, MOV, and supported live-room links. Group, search, sort, and share stream lists, choose available quality levels, and cache or save authorized streams. -- Multi-Stream Playback -- Watch up to four streams with five layouts, adjustable split ratios, and independent audio, mute, and channel controls. -- Subtitles -- Load external SRT, VTT, ASS, and SSA subtitles, including matching files in the same folder. Search and download online subtitles with OpenSubtitles and switch subtitle tracks. -- Playback Controls -- Choose decoders and audio tracks. Use speed controls, A-B repeat, custom aspect ratios, playlists, resume playback, and autoplay next media. On iPhone and iPad, hold for 2x speed or swipe to skip 10 seconds in fullscreen. -- Picture and Sound -- Adjust brightness, contrast, and saturation, and fine-tune sound with audio presets and a 10-band equalizer. -- Casting and Background Playback -- Use AirPlay, Picture in Picture, and background playback where supported. Receive DLNA / UPnP casts from devices on the same network. AirPlay reception is available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. -- File Management and Sync -- Search, sort, create folders, copy, move, rename, and delete files. Import files and links from the share sheet. Import, export, share, and sync server, cloud, and stream configurations across Apple devices. -- Apple TV -- Enjoy big-screen playback with remote-friendly navigation. Scan QR codes with AllPlayer on your phone to send connection details and simplify supported sign-ins. -- Apple Watch -- Control playback, seek, and switch media items on your paired iPhone from your wrist. -- Apple Vision Pro -- Enjoy immersive cinema with adjustable screens, environments, subtitles, playlists, and spatial controls. Supports side-by-side and over-under 3D videos. Feature availability depends on the platform, media format, decoder, and connected service.

Aether is a personal media player for Plex, Jellyfin, Emby and your own files — built natively for every Apple screen. Connect your server and your whole library appears: movies, shows, music, Continue Watching, Recently Added. Add a second server and both merge into one deduplicated view, with a picker that tells you which copy is the better file. Your media, not theirs. PLAY ANYTHING • Direct play or server-transcoded — Aether follows the best path automatically, per title. • MKV, HEVC, Dolby Vision, DTS: formats other players choke on play through a modern engine, GPU-accelerated for smooth 4K. • Picture in Picture, AirPlay, Dolby Atmos, lock-screen controls. • Switch audio and subtitle tracks mid-playback on every platform. • Offline downloads, including whole seasons — and Smart Downloads that keep the next unwatched episodes ready. EVERYONE IN THE HOUSE • Profiles: separate Continue Watching, watchlist, ratings, Home rails and trackers, with a PIN on the way in and per-profile library visibility. • A child's profile can be held to an age rating. • Pair a profile to your Plex Home profile, or to its own Jellyfin or Emby user, so watched state stays separate on the server too. • Two profiles are included; up to five with Supporter. SUBTITLES, DONE PROPERLY • Aether reads subtitle files itself and times them against the picture, so they sit where you put them — in the black bars or over the video, in your own style, with sync and size adjustable in the player. • Search OpenSubtitles from a title's own page in thirty-one languages, ranked against the exact file you're playing. YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR WAY • One library across every connected source, filtered by genre, year, rating, country, audio language, server or the libraries you curated on them. • Continue Watching, Up Next and a Discover tab with trending titles and Where to Watch availability in your region. • Person pages, franchise collections, and ratings from IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb. • Music as its own tab — artists, albums, playlists, and a player built for it, with the catalog kept on disk so it opens offline. • Live TV from a playlist you already have, with a full guide, categories you make yourself, Xtream Codes accounts and HDHomeRun tuners. Bring-your-own: Aether provides no channels. BEAUTIFUL ON EVERY SCREEN • iPhone and iPad: cinematic hero art, a page that grows out of the poster you tapped. • Apple TV: precision focus design, and your Continue Watching in the top shelf. • Apple Vision Pro: an auditorium around the picture — raked seating, masking walls, house lights down. • Mac: a native app with a menu-bar mode, a series browser, and Apple's own decoder for what it can play. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Aether connects only to the servers you configure. No account of ours, no cloud, no ads, no cross-app tracking. Your ratings, watchlist and resume positions live on your devices and in your own iCloud. Optional anonymous usage statistics can be turned off any time. SOURCES • Plex (multi-server, multi-account) • Jellyfin (multi-server) • Emby (multi-server, Live TV, music) • Silo • SMB / network shares, with Bonjour discovery • WebDAV • Local files Optional, all bring-your-own: connect your own Seerr to request what you don't have, your own Trakt or Simkl account to track what you watch, and your own OpenSubtitles account for subtitle search. Aether requires a Plex, Jellyfin, Emby or Silo media server, an SMB or WebDAV share, or local video files. It is not a streaming service and does not provide any content. Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, Silo, Trakt, Simkl and OpenSubtitles are trademarks of their respective owners. Aether is an independent, third-party client and is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by them. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://aetherplayer.com/privacy