Folder Video+ vs FlowCaster Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Folder Video+
This app plays videos stored in cloud folders or offline, helping to free up smartphone space. It allows users to select entire folders or individual videos for playback, with options for background audio and loop control.
- Cloud video playback
- Offline video playback
- Folder-based video selection
- Individual video selection
- Background audio playback
- Loop control options
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Cloud folder Video player. (Video image related files) This app is a video player that plays videos in the cloud. Video Player can free up space on your smartphone. You can select a folder and watch the entire video in the folder. You can also select and watch each video in the folder. When listening to music videos in the background, you can save battery by playing only the sound. Use the folder video app. You can select a folder and play the entire video in the folder. Or you can select and run each video in the folder. You can also select No loop, Repeat all videos, or Repeat 1 video. Play videos quickly and easily with this folder video app. Background playback function has been added.
FlowCaster Player
This app enables secure, low-latency remote monitoring of creative software and media. It allows remote editors and artists to achieve pixel-perfect displays on their iPhone and iPad devices, supporting various video resolutions and frame rates.
- Secure monitoring connection
- Remote access to creative software
- Pixel-perfect display for remote users
- SRT protocol for video transport
- Low latency and error recovery
- Supports standard video resolutions and frame rates
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The FlowCaster Player provides a secure monitoring connection from your creative software/system. FlowCaster lets you keep your creative software and media in your facility or cloud, while allowing your editors and artists working remotely to get the pixel perfect display they need to create their magic on both iPhone and iPad devices. The FlowCaster family provides direct plugin for most creative software, and bridging software to share any other software you need to work with. The video is transported via the Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) protocol, with full end to end encryption, low latency and excellent error recovery. Any standard video resolution and frame rate is supported, and quality settings allow for even low bandwidth connections to take advantage of FlowCaster.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: FlowCaster Player at none against Folder Video+'s shown. FlowCaster Player also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Folder Video+'s advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
FlowCaster Player holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Folder Video+ has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Folder Video+ ships an update fortnightly, FlowCaster Player every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Folder Video+ | FlowCaster Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | EONSOFT | Drastic Technologies Ltd |
Customer experience
Folder Video+
FlowCaster Player
In-app purchases
Folder Video+
No in-app purchases
FlowCaster Player
No in-app purchases
Questions
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