VLC media player

Name: VLC media player
Rating: 3.7 (5403 reviews)
Author: VideoLAN

Photo & Video

Free

5.4K Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Photo & Video
Developer

VideoLAN
Language

EN
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Size

194.1
MB

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player. It can play all your movies, shows and music in most formats directly without conversion. It allows file synchronization with Dropbox, GDrive, OneDrive, Box, iCloud Drive, iTunes, direct downloads and through Wi-Fi sharing as well as streaming from SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS, UPnP/DLNA media servers and the web. VLC offers support for advanced subtitles including full SSA compatibility, multi-track audio, playback speed control and rendering through Chromecast. VLC is completely free and open source.

Ratings & Reviews

3.7

out of 5

5.4K Ratings

Works most of the time
06/18/2023

Diray Acosta
It’s cool when it works. I don’t like that the settings I make like equalizer and video filters and playback delay are reset every time I reopen the app. This one isn’t that big a deal but it’d be nice to give it a minor tweak, when I try to add subtitles from Opensubs I have to scroll up when trying to click it because it doesn’t let me otherwise, despite it being in plain view, maybe it thinks it’s under the screen or something idk. Also I made a playlist by accident and now I can’t delete it. Aside from that, the serious bugs are the ones like for some reason if you try to open videos too much it’ll just give you a black image even though you can see every UI aspect fine, through my 1 week of experience the only way to fix it is to just restart your device. Second serious app breaking bug, when accessing my FTP server and tapping too many times I guess? it just crashes the app. :/ Furthermore, two great additions to the app I’d like to see is custom presets, such as audio equalizer presets and video filter presets, etc. + the ability to zoom in by pinching your fingers on the screen, I know there’s the resize button but if I wanna see a minute detail on the screen this just doesn’t cut it. If you think this could interfere with the watching experience there’d always be the lock interface option for anyone having trouble.
Works most of the time
06/18/2023

Diray Acosta

It’s cool when it works. I don’t like that the settings I make like equalizer and video filters and playback delay are reset every time I reopen the app. This one isn’t that big a deal but it’d be nice to give it a minor tweak, when I try to add subtitles from Opensubs I have to scroll up when trying to click it because it doesn’t let me otherwise, despite it being in plain view, maybe it thinks it’s under the screen or something idk. Also I made a playlist by accident and now I can’t delete it. Aside from that, the serious bugs are the ones like for some reason if you try to open videos too much it’ll just give you a black image even though you can see every UI aspect fine, through my 1 week of experience the only way to fix it is to just restart your device. Second serious app breaking bug, when accessing my FTP server and tapping too many times I guess? it just crashes the app. :/ Furthermore, two great additions to the app I’d like to see is custom presets, such as audio equalizer presets and video filter presets, etc. + the ability to zoom in by pinching your fingers on the screen, I know there’s the resize button but if I wanna see a minute detail on the screen this just doesn’t cut it. If you think this could interfere with the watching experience there’d always be the lock interface option for anyone having trouble.
It’s nearly perfect, one huge thing is missing!
Mar 19

clayman100man
I’d love the ability to rename tracks and artists of the MP3’s I upload to the music player of the app. Sometimes artists are named differently depending on the file and because of that they get mixed up. If we have the option to rename tracks, artists for tracks, or albums that would be amazing! The autosort is okay, but not perfect. It’s also be great to upload the album art picture instead of depending only on the autosort metadata. Other than that, great app! I love the presence features of the stop play and skip in Dynamic Island and as the notification banner, great touch on the details! :)Update: You can rename tracks! I just got a secondary app to rename albums/metadata etc. for the time being. After using this for a while I can safely say it’s fantastic! I saw some other comments also mentioning but the delay in the playback controls is really the only thing that needs fixing I know of, that one other feature request in my comment above is my only suggestion! Great app :)
It’s nearly perfect, one huge thing is missing!
Mar 19

clayman100man

I’d love the ability to rename tracks and artists of the MP3’s I upload to the music player of the app. Sometimes artists are named differently depending on the file and because of that they get mixed up. If we have the option to rename tracks, artists for tracks, or albums that would be amazing! The autosort is okay, but not perfect. It’s also be great to upload the album art picture instead of depending only on the autosort metadata. Other than that, great app! I love the presence features of the stop play and skip in Dynamic Island and as the notification banner, great touch on the details! :)Update: You can rename tracks! I just got a secondary app to rename albums/metadata etc. for the time being. After using this for a while I can safely say it’s fantastic! I saw some other comments also mentioning but the delay in the playback controls is really the only thing that needs fixing I know of, that one other feature request in my comment above is my only suggestion! Great app :)
Updated 3 to 5 stars
01/17/2024

cme100160
This is the most advanced & compatible video player Apple has when it comes to playing other companies formats. Also it is the only player that plays clips CONTINUOUSLY on any Apple product. How they managed to do that is worth 5 stars alone.Previous review:Wow. I’m new to Apple & quite frankly the resolution & camera is all it’s got. 2 years ago this was the only player that I could figure out to work & the highest rated. I mean after transferring all my mp4s it couldn’t find them. It or the iPad or iPhone corrupted half my files on a separate disc after I discovered a way into not being forced to upload them to iCloud for a price. Like $1000 for my phone & $500 for the pad wasnt enough? Or having the glory of being a $3-trillion company to smear it in bill gates face wasn’t enough ya gotta try to force new customers to buy storage? I have my own storage stop harassing me it gets old & it’s rude, very rude. Anyways…. So a few days ago this app just stops working. I have 2.86GB of free space I mean come on… to cheap to give me 64GB? Or want me to buy iCloud by building less storage? Idk I’m tired of this crap. This app is like Dinosaur Windows Media Player. It plays good but very few controls to mess with it really is like the old days. Very shocking & really pisses me off about Apple. Wow
Updated 3 to 5 stars
01/17/2024

cme100160

This is the most advanced & compatible video player Apple has when it comes to playing other companies formats. Also it is the only player that plays clips CONTINUOUSLY on any Apple product. How they managed to do that is worth 5 stars alone.Previous review:Wow. I’m new to Apple & quite frankly the resolution & camera is all it’s got. 2 years ago this was the only player that I could figure out to work & the highest rated. I mean after transferring all my mp4s it couldn’t find them. It or the iPad or iPhone corrupted half my files on a separate disc after I discovered a way into not being forced to upload them to iCloud for a price. Like $1000 for my phone & $500 for the pad wasnt enough? Or having the glory of being a $3-trillion company to smear it in bill gates face wasn’t enough ya gotta try to force new customers to buy storage? I have my own storage stop harassing me it gets old & it’s rude, very rude. Anyways…. So a few days ago this app just stops working. I have 2.86GB of free space I mean come on… to cheap to give me 64GB? Or want me to buy iCloud by building less storage? Idk I’m tired of this crap. This app is like Dinosaur Windows Media Player. It plays good but very few controls to mess with it really is like the old days. Very shocking & really pisses me off about Apple. Wow
CarPlay is Broken
05/05/2023

ScoobyScrub
I’ll preface my review by saying I am on a 2016 iPhone SE running iOS 15. Maybe that’s exacerbating the issues I’m experiencing, and maybe not.The iOS VLC app has been a bit buggy for as long as I’ve used it, but always within the realm of usability. I use it because it lets me transfer local music files to my phone without the trash heap that is iTunes, and for that I can put up with occasional skipped tracks on albums and similar minor annoyances.Enter the most recent update which introduced CarPlay support. I was excited when I first saw the changelog as the car is where I do most of my listening, and proper CarPlay support should only make that easier… or so I thought. But after wrangling with it all day yesterday, I’ve found that the app is so buggy as to be genuinely unusable at this point. It’s extremely slow and causes not just CarPlay but my phone itself to lock up while it loads, the skip and rewind buttons work only on rare occasions, and somehow the audio queue feature is completely broken. I’ll start an album, and after the first song it will play another at random (changes every time, as if shuffle is enabled even though it is not) before the “queue” ends. At this point if I try to return to the main menu on CarPlay nothing happens, and the app on my phone is locked up as well so I’m forced to force close it and start over.All in all, it just isn’t usable in the car at the moment. Hopefully this is fixed soon or, in the meantime, an option is provided to let us disable CarPlay.
CarPlay is Broken
05/05/2023

ScoobyScrub

I’ll preface my review by saying I am on a 2016 iPhone SE running iOS 15. Maybe that’s exacerbating the issues I’m experiencing, and maybe not.The iOS VLC app has been a bit buggy for as long as I’ve used it, but always within the realm of usability. I use it because it lets me transfer local music files to my phone without the trash heap that is iTunes, and for that I can put up with occasional skipped tracks on albums and similar minor annoyances.Enter the most recent update which introduced CarPlay support. I was excited when I first saw the changelog as the car is where I do most of my listening, and proper CarPlay support should only make that easier… or so I thought. But after wrangling with it all day yesterday, I’ve found that the app is so buggy as to be genuinely unusable at this point. It’s extremely slow and causes not just CarPlay but my phone itself to lock up while it loads, the skip and rewind buttons work only on rare occasions, and somehow the audio queue feature is completely broken. I’ll start an album, and after the first song it will play another at random (changes every time, as if shuffle is enabled even though it is not) before the “queue” ends. At this point if I try to return to the main menu on CarPlay nothing happens, and the app on my phone is locked up as well so I’m forced to force close it and start over.All in all, it just isn’t usable in the car at the moment. Hopefully this is fixed soon or, in the meantime, an option is provided to let us disable CarPlay.

· add footer view to album collection to show more metadata · close playback screen when session ends · misc. performance and stability improvements · various smaller UI improvements notably on iOS 9 and 12 · fix crash when enabling CarPlay with very large media libaries · export smaller snapshots to the Spotlight service to decrease the memory impact · fix opening very large files from within the Files app

Version 3.7.2

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