Compare the Top Media Players for iPad as of December 2025

What are Media Players for iPad?

Media players, also known as video players, are software applications that enable users to play a wide range of video, audio, image, and media file formats. Third party media players and video players typically offer a wider range of features and file format compatibility than default media players. Compare and read user reviews of the best Media Players for iPad currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    VLC Media Player
    VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. VideoLAN is open-source software. This means that if you have the skill and the desire to improve one of our products, your contributions are welcome.
    Starting Price: Free
  • 2
    RealPlayer

    RealPlayer

    RealPlayer

    Save videos on your phone to your computer seamlessly. Or transfer those downloaded videos on your PC to your phone in one click. RealPlayer Mobile is a fantastic media player, downloader, and streamer for all video lovers, and continues to be the must-have companion for PC users of RealPlayer! Back-up your videos to the RealPlayer Cloud, and access them from any device. Cast any video from your phone to the big screen with Chromecast or AirPlay. Access your RealPlayer PC library from anywhere with secure remote access. Sync downloads between your phone and your PC and vice versa. The fastest, easiest, and most fun way to build your video collection. Save videos on your phone to your computer seamlessly. Or transfer those downloaded videos on your PC to your phone in one click.
    Starting Price: Free
  • 3
    HiBy Music

    HiBy Music

    HibyMusic

    Hiby Music Player is a free hi-fi lossless audio player designed for music lovers and music fans. New features include support for direct USB audio on Android 7.x, and HiByLink to control lossless playback on affiliated remote devices, giving you a first-class music experience wherever you go. Wide lossless/lossy audio format support, including DSD(DSF, DFF, DST), ISO, WAV, FLAC, AIFF, M4A, AAC, MP3, and Ogg Vorbis. CUE sheets and ISO images are also directly supported. High precision decoding with 32 bits output, 64 bits floating point decoding, and 128 bits internal precision, all for the best quality audio. External USB DAC is supported with DXD/DoP output. You can get Native DSD or 384kHz, 32-bit DXD audio streams easily. Gapless playback, and 10-band graphic EQ. All new user interfaces bring a new user experience, new pictorial quick guide added. Expanded output sample rate on the device to 44.1 and 48 kHz, adapting to phones with different Android system sample rates.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Yxplayer

    Yxplayer

    Mobilesoft

    Yxplayer is a powerful video player for mobile devices and desktops, With Yxplayer you can enjoy your movies and music anywhere you go anytime you like. DropBox, Google Docs, and Box services are supported! Support MPEG, MOV, mp4, Flv, WMV/asf, Mkv, WebM, jpeg, and Rmvb files. supports MPEG1/2/4, H264, Divx/Xvid, RM/RMVB, and WMV7/8/9. Supports Mp3, AAC/AAC+, WMA, FLAC, APE, OGG, ALAC, and PCM. Network streaming (Samba, UPNP/DLNA, RTSP, HTTP, FTP, MMS, m3u8, etc.) Video streaming with built-in browser. Support MKV multi-track language and subtitles. Support embedded and external subtitles. File upload with HTTP/FTP server. Streaming movies/music between Yxplayer. PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, HTML viewer, etc. iPod music library playback. Fast TV-out support, as well as zip and rar support. We are a group of experienced engineers, and we provide multimedia software products and solutions for mobile devices and PC.
    Starting Price: Free
  • 5
    ALLPlayer

    ALLPlayer

    ALLPlayer

    ALLPlayer 8.9.4 is the next build of the player, which in the latest version is fully compatible with Windows 11. The latest version has received an update to the newest ffmpeg codec version 5.1, we also fixed some minor issues reported by users. ALLPlayer is probably the most popular program for watching movies and listening to music, with a modern, intuitive interface known more from smartphones and tablets than Windows. All functions are readily available, the precise moment they are needed, and thanks to codecs built-in, ALLPlayer can play virtually any media file format.
    Starting Price: Free
  • 6
    PlayerXtreme

    PlayerXtreme

    PlayerXtreme

    The best media player for movies, videos, music & streaming. It is a video player to play all formats. PlayerXtreme was designed with the idea that Videos and Movies should be easy to play and available on all devices across your home. PlayerXtreme is not limited to your drawing room. You can take it to school, use it for a presentation or just pass time while waiting for your flight. PlayerXtreme is for everyone, it is for you first. Download the PlayerXtreme Media Server software, the central brain that organizes all of your media. PlayerXtreme recognizes just about any kind of video, music, or photo format and displays all of your content in an easy-to-navigate interface. Install PlayerXtreme apps on any of your devices so you can enjoy your beautifully organized media wherever you are. You'll be up and running with PlayerXtreme after just 3 easy steps. PlayerXtreme is the best hardware accelerated media player.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Air Playit

    Air Playit

    Air Playit

    Air Playit is a free video streaming software app designed to stream videos/audio/movies from PC/Mac to Apple iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Google Android OS mobile devices. Providing free media streaming service, Air Playit is capable of streaming 320 different video & audio formats to your mobile devices via WiFi, 3G, and 4G networks. It acts as your personal audio video cloud server and lets you watch HD movies and listen to lossless music on the go. Download and install the AirPlayit server on a PC or Mac. Add movie file(s) to the shared folder. Download and install Client on an iOS/Android device, discover your local or remote server, choose a movie file under your server folder, click "play" and watch the streamed media on iPhone, iPad, etc. WinX DVD Ripper can help you rip & copy any DVDs to the video library on your PC or Mac. Then stream the DVD movies to your iPhone or iPad with Air Playit.
    Starting Price: Free
  • 8
    PLAYit

    PLAYit

    PLAYit

    PLAYit App is a powerful video player, and now PLAYit for PC is also available. You can easily use PLAYit to play videos on Android and Windows. Download the official PLAYit now! WAV , MP3, AAC, 4k, 1080p, MKV, FLV, 3GP, M4V, TS, and MPG. Auto-identify video files on Android devices and SD cards, making it easy to sort and share media files. An online HD video player with a built-in search engine allows video searching and online streaming for you. Turn on the floating play window so that you can chat with others or work with other apps while watching videos or listening to music. One-click to convert videos to audio and enjoy audio/music playing. Multi-play option and easy gesture control to change playback speed, brightness, and volume. Locate and manage all music files. Music player with lyrics support. Intelligent sleep timer. Automatically pause playback when your headset is unplugged.
    Starting Price: Free
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    foobar2000

    foobar2000

    foobar2000

    foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Supported audio formats include MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND, and more with additional components. Gapless playback with easily customizable user interface layout. Advanced tagging capabilities. Support for ripping audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the converter component. Full ReplayGain support. Customizable keyboard shortcuts. The open component architecture allows third-party developers to extend the functionality of the player. Appearance can be customized with skin files (basic black and white themes included with the app). Supports playback and downloading of music from UPnP media servers. Automatic playback volume adjustment. Enabled decoding of Opus audio in MP4 files. Additional advanced options, plus an added help button.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Plexamp

    Plexamp

    Plexamp

    Experience your music collection as you’ve never seen it before, with our UltraBlur backgrounds, over a dozen hypnotic visualizers, and four visual themes to satisfy every taste. Radios built from your library and your cooler friends' collections. Travel through time, pick a style or mood, or listen album-by-album like the purist you are. Use the Mix Builder to explore and craft your perfect blend. Explore your personal charts and see what you were into last Fall or your top albums from the 60s. Grab a few hours of your favorite playlist or stations with just a few taps. Download a custom mix or artist radio for the plane. Simple but powerful offline support for when you’re in the woods or run out of cellular data. Loudness leveling, true gapless playback, Sweet Fades™, soft transitions, a configurable preamp, custom EQ profiles, and more. Perfection for golden ears, buttery smooth touches for the rest of us. Custom pre-caching so your music keeps playing.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Onkyo HF Player
    Get greater control of how music sounds on your Android device with our touch-adjustable linear-phase FIR equalizer, offering 16,384 discrete bands of HD equalization with zero loss of audio quality. Create and save your own EQ presets or select an optimized filter created by professional musicians. HF Player for Android also supports playback of high-resolution audio formats, including FLAC, 192kHz/24-bit WAV, and DSD at no extra charge. Enjoy impressive audio quality anywhere you want by adding an Onkyo DAC-HA200 or DAC-HA300, Pioneer XPA-700 D/A converter, and headphone amplifier to enable direct digital connection to your AOA-compliant Android device 2.0 (Android open accessory). via a USB cable. OTG (On The Go) cables make it easy to connect digitally to external devices that support USB audio: simply purchase our unlock app and upgrade to the full version of Onkyo HF Player for Android to enable Hi-Res audio output.
    Starting Price: Free
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    KMPlayer

    KMPlayer

    KMPlayer

    KMPlayer is a world-renowned multimedia player that can play movies, dramas, music, and other content with an average of 1.5 billion plays a month. Supports various codecs and high-definition services such as 3D, 4K, UHD, and you can enjoy images with vivid image quality. In addition to playing large files smoothly, you can freely adjust the video screen and sound with advanced image processing functions such as noise reduction and super high speed mode. The new KMPlayer is a player optimized for high-end PCs such as 8K and 60FPS. It is a powerful player that plays all the files such as 4K, 8K, 60FPS, and has greatly improved performance to increase the playback speed of high quality content in high-end PC. We also removed all advertisements to provide the best viewing experience for our users, and reorganized them into a more streamlined menu structure.
    Starting Price: Free
  • 13
    Kodi

    Kodi

    Kodi

    Kodi puts your smart TV to shame. Kodi plays almost every kind of media you can find and looks great while doing it! Here are just a few things Kodi excels at: Your music collection has never looked this good! Support for almost every format, playlist, party mix and more. So much better than a pile of DVDs on a shelf. Kodi brings your movie collection to life with artwork, cast, genres and more. Perfect for binge-watching or the occasional catch-up on your favorite show. Kodi keeps all your tv organized like nothing else. Kodi allows you to watch and record live TV all from an easy-to-use interface. It works with a number of popular backends including MediaPortal, MythTV, NextPVR, Tvheadend and many more. Kodi isn't just for passive entertainment media. You can also play games on Kodi. Pick from a large number of emulators, or even play a stand-alone game. There's even extensive support for game controllers.
    Starting Price: Free
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    CnX Player

    CnX Player

    CnX Player

    Enjoy a breathtaking visual experience while playing 4K UHD & HDR videos on mobile, iPhone, iPad, PC, or tablet. 100% safe & reliable video player certified by Microsoft, Google, and Apple. Download only from the Play Store. Best movie player with brilliant hardware decoding of AV1, HEVC(H.265), H264(AVC), VP9, VP9 enabling buttery smooth movie playing. Save hours of file conversions and enjoy watching all video formats (MKV, Webm, MP4, XVID, AVI, TS, WMV, ASF...) Switch between different audio tracks linked to the video. No stuttering, silky smooth HDR video playback. Enjoy TRUE HDR colors with highly optimized hardware and software codecs. Save battery while watching 4K videos on mobile or tablet. Highly optimized video codecs for best battery usage. Watch movies in the preferred language of subtitles. Attach all external subtitles to the video and add more comfort. 4K 10-bit HDR video playback aided by Intel-based hardware decoding for Windows 10 PC & tablet.
    Starting Price: Free
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    GOM Player

    GOM Player

    GOM Lab

    GOM Player's subtitle library contains data collected over 10 years! Automatically search and synchronize the subtitles of the movie that is playing. In addition to playing 360-degree videos, you can enjoy a high level of immersion. Provides a comfortable playback environment that does not display ads. Service inquiries and technical support have priority.
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    jetAudio

    jetAudio

    jetAudio

    jetAudio is the highest-rated and most downloaded media player on CNET.COM and now you can listen to the same high-quality sound on your Android phone using jetAudio. It plays almost any type of digital music files you have (.wav, .mp3, .ogg, .flac, .m4a, .mpc, .tta, .wv, .ape, .mod, .spx, .opus, .wma and more) and, it provides a very high-quality sound with various effects and enhancements such as Wide, Reverb, X-Bass. It comes with 32 equalizers presets that will provide a wide array of listening experiences. For those who would like to customize their own sound experience, it also allows 10/20 bands graphic equalizer and other advanced playback functions including playback speed control, crossfading, AGC and much more. It can stream music from shared folders on local home networks or WebDAV servers. It works with shared folders from Windows, USB drives attached to routers, Network drives (NAS), or WebDAV servers.
    Starting Price: $5.04 one-time payment
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    Neutron Music Player

    Neutron Music Player

    Neutron Code Limited

    Neutron Music Player application is an advanced music player with the bare-metal 32/64-bit Neutron HiFi™ Audio Engine which delivers the best possible Hi-Fi grade quality of sound. It offers high-resolution audio playback without frequency resampling and bits truncation if internal/external DAC supports it. It supports all major platforms - Google's Android, Apple's iOS, Microsoft's Windows 10 (UWP). Thanks to input/output network capabilities Neutron is the only application in the market capable of sending audio to the network renderers (UPnP/DLNA, Chromecast) with all DSP effects applied including true gapless playback. Neutron can source music files from device or network sources such as SMB/CIFS, UPnP/DLNA, FTP, WebDAV and send audio either to headphones, or directly to USB DAC or to UPnP/DLNA or Chromecast renderer without a format limitation!
    Starting Price: $8.99 one-time payment
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