Helium Streamer vs AMI Player Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Helium Streamer
Stream your personal music library from your PC to your iOS device. Access playlists, search your collection, and view track details, all through a Wi-Fi or cellular connection. Enjoy your music anywhere, away from your computer.
- Stream music from PC
- Multi-user support
- Play/Pause and track selection
- Set rating and favorite status
- Album artwork and details
- Search music library
- Scrobble to Last.fm
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Helium Streamer enables you to playback your personal music collection on your iOS device. It streams music from Helium Streamer on your PC. This application is ideal if you want to listen to your Helium music collection away from your PC. It uses the Wi-Fi connection to receive streamed music from Helium from anywhere in and around your home and 3G/4G if you are out and about. Helium Streamer enables the playback of Playlists, Searches and User Favourites. Details of the currently playing track are shown; as is information about the playing track's artist. Helium Streamer interacts with Helium Streamer's in-built Web Service to stream and download music to the device. Features +Easily stream music from Helium Streamer on your PC +Full support for Helium's multi-user capability +Play or Pause your music +Select Next or Previous track +Set rating and favourite status for the playing track +Album artwork and details shown for the playing track +Built in play queue handling +Search Heliums library for albums, artists, titles, genre, recording years, release years and publishers +Browse Playlists / Smart Playlists +Browse Playlist / Smart Playlist contents +Browse Favourite Album, Artist and Tracks and play them +Scrobble played music to Last.fm Requirements +This App requires Helium Streamer 5. +Wi-Fi or 3G/4G connection to the PC running Helium Streamer 5.
AMI Player Pro
This advanced media player offers a rich audio experience with numerous post-processing effects for both video and audio playback. Enjoy features like volume boosting, various audio effects, and hardware acceleration for smooth playback on your devices.
- Advanced audio post-processing effects
- Volume Booster up to 5dB
- HD video playback
- Hardware acceleration
- Automatic media file identification
- Intuitive media player UI
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AMI Video Player is an Advanced Media Impresa Player of Video and Audio. It is the first ever Video Player which gives different audio post processing effects for any Video. Almost 19 audio effects, 9 voice effects and 13 convolution reverberation effects are available( in AMI Player Pro Version). Same effects work with audio only playback as well. It gives excellent listening experience on Phones and Tablets. It comes with attractive and easy media player UI to apply different effects on any video/audio playback. It gives Volume Booster of 5dB extra on maximum allowed volume of the device. Sure It is the best Video and Audio player in recent times which comes with different audio post processing like equalizer, modulation and convolution reverberation effects. Supported iOS Version: 8.0 and above Key Features: • Automatic identification of all the video/audio files in the device, show in thumbnail display • Play, Pause, Next, Previous operation • HD Play back of video files • Volume Booster of about 5dB more • Audio Post Processing effects like Bass Boost, Studio, Attack, Stereo Widening, Full Bass, Full Treble • Voice effects like Echo, Feedback • Fun effects like Voice Changer, Whistles • Convolution reverberation effects like SmallHal, MusicRoom • Battery status, Date and Time display • Hardware Acceleration for Video and Audio decoding • Drains less battery than software based players • Can play 1080P files if HW acceleration supported in the device • Smaller memory foot prints Upgrade to "AMI Player Pro" for full features.
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Verdict
Helium Streamer and AMI Player Pro both sit at 3.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of AMI Player Pro's written reviews are positive against 0% of Helium Streamer's. AMI Player Pro also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks) and chart position (#183 vs unranked). Helium Streamer's advantage is price (Free vs $2.99). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Helium Streamer is free to download; AMI Player Pro costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.0 for Helium Streamer against 3.0 for AMI Player Pro. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of Helium Streamer's written reviews are positive against 100% of AMI Player Pro's.
Helium Streamer ships an update every 6 weeks, AMI Player Pro fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and June 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Helium Streamer | AMI Player Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #183 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Imploded Software AB | Anil D |
Customer experience
Helium Streamer
AMI Player Pro
In-app purchases
Helium Streamer
No in-app purchases
AMI Player Pro
No in-app purchases
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