Leawo Blu-ray Player Ratings and Reviews

The app was confusing at first, definitley not user friendly. Once you get the hang of it though it is a life saver! I am using a macbook pro with retina and an external LG blu ray drive. When you open the app you should see a box with the name of your movie. simply double cick and it will bring you to all the files within the disc. This is where it got confusing, but the good news is, all you have to do is look at the bottom right and click ‘open’ and your movie should load. This worked for me on many movies, and I was able to even see the title menu and navigate to chapters, scene selection, pt 1, pt2, etc, just as you would on a normal tv. The hitch came when I put in a blu ray disc for a tv show, instead of a movie. It does not play the ad’s like it normally would before bringing you to the disc menu, not to mention that it doesnt even do that! I get no menu at all, it simply just plays the first episode immediatley. This wouldnt be all that bad if it was in some ‘play all’ mode, but that is not the case either. For me, as soon as I watch or skip past the first episode on the disc, it reruns that episode. there is no way to access later episodes.

This app is great for watching movies even though it may be frustrating to work at first, but it is terrible for watching tv shows as their is no menu for those.

so far this player software is excellent, the BD’s load, you get the authentic menus and navigation and can easily right click on the screen within the player to bring up subtitle/language options etc. I paid about $50 for the Aiseesoft player which is junk in comparison. With Aiseesoft half the BD’s won’t play, they will load to a garbage looking menu, then crash… some play, many won’t play at all and you have to select language version via the ‘other titles’ junk menu which is laughable. The latest version of the Aiseesoft player even crops off the sides of the image just a hair, which is annoying… I’m only mentioning that player because I hate it and paid for it.

This apparently free player is amazing since it functions just like a stand alone BD player. The picture quality is great this Leawo player offers brightness and contrast adjustments… the gamma seems locked? anyway it’s great so far after just having down loaded it. So far I’m impressed in comparison to Aiseesoft junker.

UPDATE, yes with Catalina it stopped working entirely and I was prompted to update Java runtime? I did... still didn't work so I deleted everything. Now with update for Catalina I re-installed and got the same exact prompt to update Java, not even going to bother. It was a premium free BD player, but now it's a headache. I went back and reinstalled Aiseesoft.

First, I did not have the problem The__Ogre did. I suspect he was confused by the program’s rather unintuitive interface. Sometimes it shows you a file-select dialog, and he may have tried to open one of the internal files rather than just clicking Open. The program plays just fine for me, with one glaring exception; it seems unable to access the disc menu. It just starts playing the main feature. Thus, I was unable to access the Special Features that are included on most all discs these days. There is a “Menu…" option available, but it is greyed out. I don’t know if I am missing something, but this is a major drawback for me.

This application has worked flawlessly for me on several Mac models with different optical drives. The only time it did not work was when I had an old optical disk drive attached that wasn’t capable of playing Blu-ray disks. I suspect that many of the negative reviews could be hardware related and not directly related to the Leawo software.

In another instance, I purchased an external 3rd party optical drive that didn’t work on the Mac with the supplied cable. I used it with a Thunderbolt-3 to USB-2 adapter, since the cable didn’t have a Thunderbolt-3/USB-C connector. Even though it worked for playing DVDs, it didn’t work for Blu-ray. When I changed cables to one that was natively USB-C on the Mac end, it played Blu-ray disks through the Leawo Blu-ray Player without any issues. So unfortunately there might need to be some trial and error if you are not using a modern Apple supplied optical drive that is Blu-ray compliant. This is most likely a hardware problem, not the software player problem.

Picked up a Pioneer BDR-XS06 mainly to be able to watch my ever expanding collection of BluRays and then realized I needed a player to do so. After finding the vast selection of two in the App Store, I opted for this free one. The reviews are mixed so I was hesitant but figured, “It’s Free.” In stereotypical “man” fashion, I loaded a disc in, waited for the activity wheel to quite spinning and proceeded to watch “Unstoppable”. All this without ever stopping to read, or even look for, any of the instructions. With a little patience for spool-up and buffering, the movie played in incredibly clear resolution. Additionally, there was no flaws in playback of either video or audio.

In short, for a free App, Thanks to the developers for that, by the way, this one is better than one would hope for, does what it is intended to do and has a very simple interface. Should you choose to utilize it, don’t over think it and you will be able to enjoy watching your BluRay discs.

My system: Mid 2010 iMac, 27”, i7 2.9Ghz, 16 GB RAM, running El Capitan, with the above mentioned player/burner.

I downloaded this app after purchasing a Blu-ray player for my MacBook Air and finding out that I need an aftermarket app to allow for Blu-ray playback. So far the app seems to be working. I also have a bunch of movies on HD in mostly .avi format which Quicktime refuses to play but with this app I can play all of my movies from my library!! I have yet to play a movie at full length to give a true review of how the app works throught the movie so as time goes on I will update my review if needed but, as for now, the app seems to work great!! No issues going to the folders to find a movie and no issues starting a movie from disc and no issues navigting the interface. Good Luck

A special thank you for the person or company who made this app free! I’m not sure of the problem that other folks were having, but I just watched "The Martian” on Blu-Ray with no problem at all and in perfect HD video quality and sound. If anything, give the program time to load and bring up the menu by using both click buttons and take time to understand the menu selection options. Hopefully after the nay-sayers give this program a second go around after reading the aforementioned - they’ll retract their previous statements. Awesome program!

... And I can't find a way to change the text to another language, including English. This makes the app impossible to use for most people. And it doesn't have to be that way! I don't understand how this blunder occurred. You can download the app directly from the developer site and it provides English control text. That version sadly requires legacy Java 6 to be installed, but at least it's usable for most people. (I've downloaded it twice from the App Store to verify this isn't a fluke).

IOW: FIX THIS APPLE and DEVELOPER! This is a ridiculous and entirely unnecessary situation. FIX IT NOW PLEASE!

It’s free and it plays blu-rays. I couldn’t be happier. The UI isn’t mind blowing but it works, may be a little tough for some users to get the hang of but if all you’re looking for is to play blu-rays, you have everything you need. Other software is $50 and I’d rather just buy a player at Costco lol I definitely would pay for something, but $50 seems too much so this is beyond awesome. I’m sure some more functionality will be added later but I’m definitely happy.

Saw to many reviews saying this wasnt a great app. on the i-mac this program works amazing with my samsung external drive. It was probably the easiest app ive personally ever used. Just open up, insert disk, open app, press play and blue ray your movie away.

THanks to the makers of this app for making it accessible, Hostly its worth money, but free is definately better! ;)