Ultimate Media Player vs Loft

Ultimate Media Player plays the media you already own. Point it at your own Jellyfin or Plex server, or an SMB, FTP or WebDAV share, and it builds a browsable library with artwork, cast, ratings and subtitles — with resume positions that follow you between your iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. Ultimate Media Player includes no content of its own and streams nothing from us. Everything you watch comes from a server or share that you control.

Loft is a native player for the media account you already own. Add it once and Loft turns it into a proper library: films, series and live channels, searchable in an instant, with artwork, descriptions and everything you are part way through in one place. Loft does not include, sell or recommend any content. It plays what your own account gives you access to. A REAL LIBRARY Favorites, a watchlist, lists of your own and a Continue Watching shelf that survives your provider reshuffling its catalogue. Loft remembers the title, not the link. PLAYS WHAT OTHERS REFUSE Matroska, AVI and transport streams play as they are. Loft rewrites the container on the device as it goes, so the picture starts while the rest is still being prepared. Audio tracks and subtitles appear in the system menus you already know. INSTANT, BECAUSE IT IS ALL HERE Your catalogue is stored on the device. Browsing, filtering and search never wait on a slow connection, and search answers as you type. THE PLAYER YOU ALREADY KNOW Picture in Picture, AirPlay and full screen, with the system controls and gestures Apple built. On Apple TV it is made for a remote rather than squeezed onto one. EVERY SCREEN, ONE LIBRARY Turn on sync and your watchlist, your lists and your place in everything arrive on your iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. It travels through your own iCloud, encrypted end to end. Nobody else can read it, including us. RESPECTS YOUR CONNECTION Most accounts allow one stream at a time. Loft gives the connection back the moment you stop, tells you which of your devices is using it, and lets you take over. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account to create. No tracking. No analytics. Your details live in the Keychain and the only server Loft talks to is the one you typed in. Try it before you type anything: a few openly licensed short films ship inside the app. Works with Xtream compatible accounts.