Emby vs Baiskoafu
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Emby
Unite your personal videos, music, and photos into a single, accessible library. Stream your media to any device with automatic on-the-fly conversion and elegant organization. Share with friends and family, and manage access with robust parental controls.
- Personal media aggregation
- On-the-fly media conversion
- Elegant media organization
- Media sharing with friends/family
- Parental controls
- Cloud-synced media streaming
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Bringing all of your personal media together into one place has never been easier! Emby unites your personal videos, music, and photos and streams them to your devices. Get the free Emby Media Server from the Emby website (required as part of your Emby install). • Emby automatically converts your media on-the-fly to play on any device. • Emby organizes your media into an elegant display with artwork, rich metadata and related content. • Easily share your media with friends and family. • Rich parental control and management features allow the Emby Server administrator to easily control access for your entire family. • Stream your cloud-synced media (with installed cloud sync providers) The app is free to browse your media collection, and free to cast media to other devices. Playback requires a small one-time in-app purchase, or an active Emby Premiere subscription, also available in-app. Emby Premiere is available in-app as a monthly subscription for $6.99 USD per month. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account upon confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and the renewal cost is $6.99 USD. Subscriptions may be managed and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your Account Settings after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active subscription period. Our privacy policy can be found at https://emby.media/privacy. Please also see our terms of use at https://emby.media/terms. All content displayed here is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. The videos displayed are available on the Open Movie Project, found at http://www.blender.org/
Baiskoafu
Stream and download a wide variety of Maldivian audio and video content, including original productions and live TV channels. Create virtual collections by searching for songs, movies, and artists. Access limited content for free or subscribe for unlimited access.
- Stream and download Maldivian content
- Access original productions
- Live TV channel streaming
- Create virtual media collections
- Search for music, movies, and artists
- Free limited access
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Baiskoafu is a first-of-its-kind Streaming App offering unprecedented content that are all Maldivian-prone to its user base. Baiskoafu helps you to stream and download media(audio and video) content. You can search for songs, movies, albums and artists, and can add items to your library to create virtual collections. Just sign in into the application and access limited content as a free user. * You can subscribe to premium plan with In-app purchase to get unlimited access to all of Baiskoafu. * The subscription rate of Baiskoafu is $5.99 per month with a free trial of 14 days and is limited to single device at a time. * Once the free trial is over, the App store will automatically charge your Apple ID's default payment method. * If you cancel your subscription before the end of the free trial, you will still be eligible for the 14-day free trial offer and any unused part of the free trial will not be forfeited. * If you are not satisfied with your Baiskoafu premium purchase, you may cancel at any time. * If you cancel your auto-renewal before the end of your free trial, you will not be charged * Subscriptions will automatically renew unless cancelled with-in 24 hours before the end of the current period. * If you do not want to renew your subscription, don't worry! Go to your iTunes account settings. The main categories in Baiskoafu are; * Baiskoafu Original Content (including both audio and video as well as documentaries and sketches produced by Baiskoafu. * Content originally owned by an outside party/ies that Baiskoafu has the official Rights to stream. * The Rights to live stream all the Maldivian-based TV Channels viewable via Baiskoafu App. Banking Partner: Bank of Maldives (BML) Telecom Partner: Dhiraagu, Ooreedoo Digital Content Partner: Baiskoafu Studio Terms of Use: http://baiskoafu.com/terms-of-use.html Privacy Policy: http://baiskoafu.com/privacy-policy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Baiskoafu at 3.7 against Emby's 3.1. Emby's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and device support (5 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Emby sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Baiskoafu sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $11.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Baiskoafu holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 658 and 217 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 31% of Emby's written reviews are positive against 32% of Baiskoafu's.
Emby ships an update every 3 weeks, Baiskoafu every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Emby | Baiskoafu |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (658 ratings) | 3.7 (217 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 30.6% of reviews | 32.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 658 — better | 217 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 126 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Emby Media | ECOMXCHANGEMV PRIVATE LIMITED |
Customer experience
Emby
Baiskoafu
User reviews
Emby
From 658 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great app
- 👍 Awesome interface
- 🚀 Flawless performance
- 🚀 Smooth playback
- 👍 Customizable home screen
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes frequently
- 🐛 Buggy app
- 🐛 Unreliable Chromecast support
- 🔒 Paywall for basic functionality
- 🐛 Playback issues
Baiskoafu
From 217 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great app
- 👍 Very useful
- 👍 Best app in Maldives
- 👍 Excellent service
- 👍 One of the best app ever
Room to improve
- 🐛 Poor streaming speed
- 🐛 Too costly to watch
- 🐛 App crashes
- 🐛 Portrait mode is a joke
- 🐛 Movies take a lot of time to load
Bugs and requests
Emby
Reported bugs
7 issues- Playback errors
- Inability to play certain file formats
- Disconnection issues
- Syncing problems
- Crashes on launch
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- Orientation issues
- Transcoding problems
Requested features
7 requests- Picture-in-picture mode
- Swipe gestures for navigation
- Improved music management
- Offline playback enhancements
- Chromecast improvements
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- Faster server scanning/indexing
- Better codec/format support
Baiskoafu
Reported bugs
18 issues- Few glitches found
- App crashes while using
- Portrait mode issues on iOS
- Movies take a lot of time to load
- App crashes multiple times when opening
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- Data consumption too high
- Cannot fast forward or rewind from player duration line
- Search option doesn't work
- Continue feature not available
- Cannot subscribe from Android and iOS
- Movies download not working for offline viewing
- Payment error
- Unable to access premium content after subscribing
- High mobile data usage
- Application crashing on iPhone XR
- App keeps closing automatically
- Crash
- App not opening and consuming data
Requested features
8 requests- Support Apple TV
- Apple TV app
- Screen casting options (Chromecast)
- iPad version
- Airplay feature
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- Continue watching/resume feature
- More categories (Quran, music)
- Delete cache data option
In-app purchases
Emby
- Emby Premiere$6.991 Month
- Unlock Playback2 variants$4.99
Baiskoafu
- Premium3 Days trial$11.991 Month









