Version history
VLC for Android
40
ASO score
Text
25/100
Reviews
100/100
Graphic
40/100
Other
0/100
App Rating
4.1
Votes
211.52M
App Age
10y 10m
Last Update
Jan 20, 2021
iAP
$0.99 - 11.99
Compare with Category Top Apps
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Metrics
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Current App
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Category Top Average
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Difference
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Installs
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446.1M
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112.6M
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+296%
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Rating
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4.07
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4.29
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-5%
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Number of Ratings (Voted)
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166.7M
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129.9M
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+28%
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App Age
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10y 10m
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6y 4m
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+70%
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In-app Purchases Price
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$6
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$93
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-93
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Update Frequency
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1786d
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76d
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+2 248%
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Title Length
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15
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24
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-38%
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Short Description Length
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78
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70
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+11%
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Description Length
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3 005
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3 024
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-1%
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Number of Screenshots
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2721
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1074
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+153
%
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Has Video?
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No
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0% has videos
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Size
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0MB
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0MB
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Category Ranking in United States
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Downloads
Downloads Graph
Total
444.9M
Last month
3.2M
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VLC for Android
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VLC for Android is the best open source video and music player, fast and easy!
Description
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VLC media player is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player that plays most multimedia files as well as discs, devices, and network streaming protocols.
This is the port of VLC media player to the Android™ platform. VLC for Android can play any video and audio files, as well as network streams, network shares and drives, and DVD ISOs, like the desktop version of VLC.
VLC for Android is a full audio player, with a complete database, an equalizer and filters, playing all weird audio formats.
VLC is intended for everyone, is totally free, has no ads, no in-app-purchases, no spying and is developed by passionate volunteers. All the source code is available for free.
Features
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VLC for Android™ plays most local video and audio files, as well as network streams (including adaptive streaming), DVD ISOs, like the desktop version of VLC. It also support disk shares.
All formats are supported, including MKV, MP4, AVI, MOV, Ogg, FLAC, TS, M2TS, Wv and AAC. All codecs are included with no separate downloads. It supports subtitles, Teletext and Closed Captions.
VLC for Android has a media library for audio and video files, and allows to browse folders directly.
VLC has support for multi-track audio and subtitles. It supports auto-rotation, aspect-ratio adjustments and gestures to control volume, brightness and seeking.
It also includes a widget for audio control, supports audio headsets control, cover art and a complete audio media library.
Permissions
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VLC for Android needs access to those categories:
• "Photos/Media/Files" to read your all media files :)
• "Storage" to read your all media files on SD cards :)
• "Other" to check network connections, change the volume, set the ringtone, run on Android TV and display the popup view, see below for details.
Permission Details :
• It needs "read the contents of your USB storage", in to order to read your media files on it.
• It needs "modify or delete the contents of your USB storage", in order to allow deletion of files and store subtitles.
• It needs "full network access", to open network and internet streams.
• It needs "prevent phone from sleeping" in order to prevent... your phone from sleeping when watching a video.
• It needs "change your audio settings", in order to change audio volume.
• It needs "modify system settings", in order to allow you to change your audio ringtone.
• It needs "view network connections" in order to monitor whether device is connected or not.
• It needs "draw over other apps" to start the custom picture-in-picture widget.
• It needs "control vibration" to give feedback on the controls.
• It needs "run at startup" to set recommendations on Android TV launcher screen, only used on Android TV devices.
• It needs "microphone" to provide voice search on Android TV devices, only asked on Android TV devices.}
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Additional Information
| Rating: | |
| Voted: | 211.52M |
| Google Play Link: | |
| Website: | |
| Email: | |
| Privacy Policy: | |
| Categories: | Video Players & Editors |
| Size: | - |
| iAP: | 0.99 - 11.99 $ |
| Installs: | 444.91M |
| App Age: | 10 years 10 months |
| Release Date: | Feb 04, 2015 |
| Last Update: | Jan 20, 2021 |
| Version: | Varies with device |
Version history
Varies with device
Jan 20, 2021
* Fix Chromecast playback<br> * Allow sorting albums by artist<br> * Fix some RTL issues<br> * Improve playback resume<br> * Persist audio player time mode<br> * Crash fixes
Mar 12, 2018