VLC media player

Name: VLC media player
Rating: 3.7 (5430 reviews)
Author: VideoLAN

Photo & Video

Free

5.4K Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Photo & Video
Developer

VideoLAN
Language

EN
+ 47 More
Size

195.3
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.
Almost perfect
11/12/2024

jax4txt
I'm really in love with this app! It checks a lot of my boxes for what I've been looking for in a music player, especially being able to transfer my music from my pc through the app over wifi (since my phone's charger port doesn't work). Also even if it's not what I downloaded the app for, being able to download videos to watch later offline is a great bonus. The only issue I've had was that when turning my phone on and off, the sound stops for a second and then continues (not the worst issue, doesn't really bother me much). However, I rated 4/5 stars as the "play next in queue" and "append to queue" buttons doesn't work unless shuffle is off, which is kinda inconvenient. Additionally, I know VLC is supposed to be very bare and minimal in terms of its UI, but I'd really love the option of being able to add a photo as a cover for my playlists. Haven't found anything I liked better than this app however, so I'm really happy with what's offered and will continue using it. :)
Almost perfect
11/12/2024

jax4txt

I'm really in love with this app! It checks a lot of my boxes for what I've been looking for in a music player, especially being able to transfer my music from my pc through the app over wifi (since my phone's charger port doesn't work). Also even if it's not what I downloaded the app for, being able to download videos to watch later offline is a great bonus. The only issue I've had was that when turning my phone on and off, the sound stops for a second and then continues (not the worst issue, doesn't really bother me much). However, I rated 4/5 stars as the "play next in queue" and "append to queue" buttons doesn't work unless shuffle is off, which is kinda inconvenient. Additionally, I know VLC is supposed to be very bare and minimal in terms of its UI, but I'd really love the option of being able to add a photo as a cover for my playlists. Haven't found anything I liked better than this app however, so I'm really happy with what's offered and will continue using it. :)
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.

This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included. · 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 Mar 30

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Information

Seller: VideoLAN
Size: 195.3 MB
Category: Photo & Video
Compatibility: Requires iOS 9.0 or later.

iPhone
Requires iOS 9.0 or later.

iPad
Requires iPadOS 9.0 or later.

iPod touch
Requires iOS 9.0 or later.

Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.

Apple TV
Requires tvOS 11.0 or later.
Languages: English and 47 more

English, Afrikaans, Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Breton, Cambodian, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Faeroese, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Malay, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sardinian, Simplified Chinese, Singhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian
Age Rating: 4+

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Ratings & Reviews

Works most of the time

Almost perfect

Updated 3 to 5 stars

CarPlay is Broken

What’s New

App Privacy

Data Not Linked to You

Accessibility

Supported Features

VoiceOver

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Dark Interface

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Reduced Motion

Captions

Audio Descriptions

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Supports

Siri

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