Wavr Stream vs CarCast Player

Wavr is a powerful streaming media player that lets you play, organize, and share your favorite audio and video streams — all from one beautifully designed app. PLAY ANYTHING Wavr supports a wide range of streaming formats including HLS, MP4, MKV, RTSP, FLAC, and many more. With dual playback engines — Apple's native AVPlayer and VLCKit — Wavr automatically selects the best engine for each stream, or lets you choose manually. YOUR STREAM LIBRARY Build your personal streaming library with ease. Add streams by URL, organize them into custom folders with icons, mark your favorites, and search across your entire collection. Wavr remembers where you left off so you can resume playback right where you stopped. SHARE WITH ANYONE Share individual streams or entire collections with friends using QR codes or the standard iOS share sheet — send via Messages, WhatsApp, AirDrop, email, or any sharing app. Recipients with Wavr can add shared streams with a single tap. FULL PLAYBACK CONTROL Adjustable playback speed (0.5x to 2.0x) Multiple audio track selection Subtitle track support Skip forward/backward controls Sleep timer with preset durations Resume from last position EVERYWHERE YOU GO AirPlay to stream on your TV or speakers Picture-in-Picture for multitasking CarPlay integration for hands-free control while driving Apple Watch companion app for playback control from your wrist Lock screen and Control Center controls Background audio playback PRIVACY FIRST Wavr collects no data. No tracking, no analytics, no accounts. Your entire library is stored locally on your device. The camera is only used for scanning QR codes to add shared streams. SUPPORTED FORMATS Audio: MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, OGG, OPUS, M4A, AIFF, and more Video: MP4, MKV, AVI, MOV, FLV, WebM, TS, and more Streaming: HLS (m3u8), RTSP, RTMP, DASH (mpd), HTTP/HTTPS Requires iOS 17.0 or later. Optimized for iPhone and iPad. Terms Of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

CarCast is a player and cast receiver that puts your own videos, playlists and self-hosted media server on your iPhone, with CarPlay audio in the car. A fresh install of CarCast has no sources at all: everything it plays is something you added. CarCast only plays it — we don’t provide sources, don’t store them, and don’t recommend any. Before you add a source, make sure the rights are yours: either you own it, or you’re licensed to use it. PLAY YOUR OWN SOURCES • M3U / HLS playlists: paste one link or an entire config and CarCast works out what it is; if the address is in a QR code, just scan it • Connect your self-hosted Jellyfin or Emby media server to browse libraries, pick episodes, and choose subtitles and audio tracks • Import videos from Photos or the Files app • Common formats play in the system player; formats it cannot play switch to the built-in VLC playback engine (open source, LGPL) CARPLAY • Browse channels, libraries and favorites with CarPlay lists and play them; the sound comes through the car CAST RECEIVER • CarCast can act as a DLNA cast receiver on your Wi‑Fi: tap Cast in another app that has a Cast button, choose CarCast, and the video plays in CarCast PRIVACY • No sign-up or login, no data collection, no ads • Your server username and password live in this iPhone’s Keychain and go nowhere except the server you entered Available in 16 languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Indonesian, Turkish, German, Italian, Japanese, French, Thai, Dutch, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Spanish, Vietnamese, Malay and Arabic.