Comparison

NaboTV vs DreamPlayer

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

Head to head
About

NaboTV

Features
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NaboTV brings everything you can watch into one place, no matter where it lives. Instead of opening app after app to work out what to watch and where it is playing, you get a single library built around you and the services you already pay for. WHERE TO WATCH, INSTANTLY Search any movie or show and see exactly where it is available. NaboTV tracks streaming availability across services, so you know at a glance whether something is included with a subscription you already have, available to rent or buy, or already sitting on your own server. One tap opens the right app at the right title. YOUR OWN MEDIA, BUILT IN Connect a Plex, Emby, or Jellyfin server and your personal library sits right alongside everything else. Your movies, shows, and episodes become searchable, resumable, and ready to play, with subtitles and audio handled for you. PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Continue Watching follows you from room to room. Start an episode on the television, finish it on your phone, and your progress, your on-deck episodes, and your season tracking stay in sync. DISCOVER SOMETHING WORTH YOUR TIME Browse a deep catalog with real detail: cast and crew, ratings, reviews, and collections. Filter by genre, decade, rating, or what you can actually watch tonight, then save any search you like as a row on your home screen. Build watchlists and keep the good stuff organized. MADE FOR THE BIG SCREEN NaboTV is designed for television first and is at home on iPhone and iPad. Cast to the big screen, or use your phone as a remote for the room. WATCH TOGETHER Add friends, send recommendations, and talk about what to watch next. You stay in control, with the ability to block or report anyone at any time. BUILT FOR A WHOLE HOUSEHOLD Every profile can have its own maximum rating, blocked genres, daily time limit, and viewing window. The service enforces these settings, not the app on the television, so a bedtime cannot be lifted by changing the clock on the TV. Blocked titles become a request an adult can approve from their own device, and any profile can be locked with a PIN. New kids profiles start restricted rather than open. WHEN NOBODY IS WATCHING Let the screen go idle, and NaboTV drifts into an ambient mode with artwork, local weather, and trivia, so the television is worth looking at between shows. YOUR VIEWING IS YOURS NaboTV collects only what it needs to make the experience work, and location is entirely optional. GETTING IN NaboTV is in early access and requires an account. If you do not have one yet, join the waitlist at nabo.tv, and we will send you an invitation.

About

DreamPlayer

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DreamPlayer โ€” the video player for your entire collection. Plays virtually any video and audio file you throw at it โ€” MKV, MP4, TS, AVI, WebM and more, with hardware decoding and a buttery native refresh rate. AUDIO THAT JUST PLAYS DTS, DTS-HD MA, TrueHD (incl. Atmos), E-AC3 JOC, AC3, FLAC, AAC. No codec hunting. YOUR FILES, WHERE THEY ARE โ€ข Local: Files app, SD card, USB โ€” add any folder to Your Library โ€ข NAS / Network: SMB, WebDAV, Jellyfin/Emby, FTP/SFTP, UPnP/DLNA, or direct http(s) URL โ€ข iPad: Files "Open with", bookmarked folders, WebDAV/Jellyfin/SMB โ€ข TMDB posters, backdrops, cast, trailers, season/episode stills โ€” cached offline PLAYER THAT STAYS OUT OF THE WAY โ€ข Gestures: brightness, volume, horizontal seek โ€ข Subtitles: embedded + sideloaded (SRT, ASS, VTT, TTML, SAMI, MPL2) โ€ข Continue watching, watched marks, Picture-in-Picture, background audio LIBRARY, NOT A FILE BROWSER Add folders once โ€” DreamPlayer groups series, fetches TMDB metadata and keeps resume state. Pull to refresh, manual groups, per-episode details. PRIVACY & NO ACCOUNT Passwords stored in Keychain, never logged. No login required โ€” core playback and all sources work free, connections are only to servers you own. DREAMPLAYER PREMIUM โ€” in-app purchase An optional subscription or one-time purchase unlocks extra features: Dolby Vision / HDR10+ playback, subtitle styling, playback speed, A-B loop, sleep timer, download to device, and online subtitle search. โ€ข Advanced Monthly โ€” auto-renewing subscription โ€ข Advanced Yearly โ€” auto-renewing subscription โ€ข Advanced Lifetime โ€” one-time purchase 7-day free trial for new users. Subscriptions auto-renew; cancel anytime in your Apple ID Settings. Free users can restore purchases anytime. Terms of Use: https://mangeshghodke.github.io/DreamPlayer/terms Privacy Policy: https://mangeshghodke.github.io/DreamPlayer/privacy

Screenshots

NaboTV4 screens
DreamPlayer2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NaboTV at none against DreamPlayer's 3. NaboTV also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly) and device support (4 vs 2). On price and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. DreamPlayer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. NaboTV asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NaboTV ships an update every 2 days, DreamPlayer weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences ยท 2 level
NaboTV versus DreamPlayer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNaboTVDreamPlayer
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 days โ€” betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size76 MB61 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperWatchBetter, Inc.Mangesh Ghodke

In-app purchases

None

NaboTV

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

DreamPlayer

Subscriptions2
  • DreamPlayer Premium โ€” Monthly$1.991 Month
  • DreamPlayer Premium โ€” Yearly$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • DreamPlayer Premium โ€” Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is NaboTV free?
NaboTV is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DreamPlayer free?
DreamPlayer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do NaboTV or DreamPlayer have ads?
Neither NaboTV nor DreamPlayer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NaboTV or DreamPlayer?
NaboTV ships an update every 2 days, and DreamPlayer weekly. Most recently, NaboTV was updated on October 14, 2026 and DreamPlayer on October 24, 2026.

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