Comparison

Continuous Player vs WakeTok

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

Head to head
About

Continuous Player

This app automatically plays videos and photos from your selected album or custom playlist. It offers extensive playback customization, offline viewing, and a child-lock feature. Enjoy background playback and live captions with no ads or tracking.

Highlights
  • Automatic album playback
  • Custom playlist creation
  • Playback speed and timing control
  • Offline viewing
  • Child lock feature
  • Background playback
  • Live captions
Features
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Pick an album in your Photos library. Everything inside plays, one after another, without stopping. No tapping every clip to start it again, no black screen the moment a video ends. Made for showing your kids only the videos in one folder, looking back at a trip with its photos and videos together, or leaving your footage running while you work. PICK AN ALBUM, THAT'S IT - Play an album from Photos as it is. No importing, no converting - Videos and photos mixed together play as one queue (photos stay on screen for as long as you set) - Or build a playlist of just the items you want, in the order you want TUNE THE PLAYBACK - Sort: date taken (oldest or newest first), duration (longest or shortest first), random - Filter: everything, videos only, or photos only - Filter by date taken: today, the last 3, 7 or 30 days, or an exact range you pick - Timing: how long a photo stays on screen (1-30 sec), and when to move on from a video (play in full, or 3-60 sec) - Repeat: off, the whole album or playlist, or just the video you're on - Speed: 0.5x to 2.0x in 0.25 steps, plus 3x, 5x and 10x PLAY IT OFFLINE - Copy videos and photos onto the device and they play where there's no signal - Filter to "downloaded only" to play just what you saved, back to back - Keep it running on the move or on a plane, without watching your data A LOCK FOR HANDING IT TO A CHILD - Lock the playback screen so taps and swipes no longer interrupt anything - Unlocking takes a long press, so it won't come undone by accident - To keep them from leaving the app entirely, pair it with Guided Access in iOS Settings FIND YOUR WAY BACK - Pin favorite albums to the top of the list - The last video or photo you played is marked, so you know where you left off - Show the date taken on thumbnails and during playback (optional) - Calendar view: thumbnails sit on the days they were taken. Tap a day to play from there, jump to any month, or tap Today to come back WHILE IT PLAYS - Press and hold either edge of the screen to fast-forward at twice your chosen speed, only while held - Double-tap the right or left side to skip 10 seconds forward or back - Background playback: sound keeps going with the screen off, with controls on the Lock Screen and in Control Center - Picture in Picture: keep it running in a small window while you use other apps LIVE CAPTIONS - The audio is recognized as it plays and shown as captions over the video - Switch the language it listens for without stopping playback - it doesn't have to match the app's language - Recognition happens entirely on your device. No audio is sent anywhere - When it can't make anything out, it tells you why NO ADS, NO IN-APP PURCHASES, NO TRACKING Buy it once and it's yours. No ads. No in-app purchases. Nothing about you is collected or sent anywhere. Your videos and photos are read and played on your device. LANGUAGES Japanese, English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Dutch, Polish. You can set the app's language separately from your device language. BEFORE YOU START - Access to your photo library is required. Limited access (selected photos only) works fine - Live captions need permission for speech recognition - Items kept in iCloud but not on your device are downloaded as they play, which uses data

About

WakeTok

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Wake what you saved — A local-first vertical scrolling app for rediscovering your own photo and video library. Years of photos and videos can sit in your library, rarely seen again. WakeTok brings them back: swipe up and down through them full screen, one at a time, Live Photos included. On your device. No account. Nothing uploaded to WakeTok. CHOOSE WHAT TO BROWSE, AND IN WHAT ORDER • Browse your whole library, only photos, or only videos — there is no limit on how many items you can browse. • Or build a pool from the albums you choose and browse just those. Save the pool and come back to it whenever you like. • Choose the order: Shuffle, Newest → Oldest, or Oldest → Newest. Shuffle your whole library and you will come across photos and videos you'd forgotten were there. Reach the end and WakeTok starts a fresh round. ORGANISE, SHARE OR DELETE AS YOU GO • Swipe left to add what you are looking at to the WakeTok album in Photos — a bookmark for later. Nothing is moved or copied. • Add to Favourites, or add to one of your own albums. • Share through the iOS share sheet. • Delete with the usual iOS confirmation; items go to Recently Deleted. MADE FOR YOUR LIBRARY • Live Photos, videos and animated GIFs play full screen. Tap a video to pause or resume, scrub to any moment, and long-press a Live Photo to replay it. • Pinch to zoom into a photo. • See when each item is from: 3 months ago, 11 years ago. • Works with iCloud Photos. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-in. • No ads, no analytics, no tracking. • Nothing is uploaded to WakeTok. • WakeTok stores your pools and settings on your iPhone. Privacy policy: https://dennycgan.github.io/waketok-site/privacy/

Screenshots

Continuous Player4 screens
WakeTok4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: WakeTok at Free against Continuous Player's $4.99. Continuous Player's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly) and chart position (#179 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

WakeTok is free to download; Continuous Player costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Continuous Player ships an update weekly, WakeTok fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Continuous Player versus WakeTok: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterContinuous PlayerWakeTok
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#179 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.618.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSuguru YamadaCHENWEI GAN

In-app purchases

None

Continuous Player

No in-app purchases

None

WakeTok

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Continuous Player free?
Continuous Player costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is WakeTok free?
WakeTok is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Continuous Player or WakeTok have ads?
Neither Continuous Player nor WakeTok shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Continuous Player or WakeTok?
Continuous Player ships an update weekly, and WakeTok fortnightly. Most recently, Continuous Player was updated on October 31, 2026 and WakeTok on October 24, 2026.

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