Most third-party video players for Android have ads that interrupt your experience. So, we’ve compiled a list of ad-free video players that let you fully immerse yourself in your favorite movies or shows. While these apps are free, some offer premium features for a fee.
1 VLC
VLC needs no introduction. It has been a popular choice for playing videos on desktops and smartphones for a very long time. In fact, you might be reading this article because you’re looking for an alternative to VLC. But we had to include it anyway.
VLC allows you to stream audio and video files, along with the ability to play files saved on your local storage. The app supports all types of video and audio formats.
You can easily browse files in your media library and play anything you want with ease. VLC offers many other features, including auto-rotation, subtitles, aspect-ratio adjustments, gesture-based volume controls, a day-night mode, an Android TV interface, and playlists.
Download:VLC (Free)
2 KMPlayer
KMPlayer is another popular video player for desktops and smartphones. The app offers excellent features for a great video-watching experience. For instance, you can adjust the brightness and create the environment of your movie night according to your mood.
You can also create playlists to watch later. The app also supports Chromecast, URL streaming, private server connections, playing music from the cloud, and subtitles.
KMPlayer offers themes as well, some of which are VIP themes. You have to pay for its VIP features, such as torrent playback, video and audio cropping, and an MP3 converter. However, the app’s video playback capabilities are available for free.
Download:KMPlayer (Free, in-app purchases available)
3 Nova Video Player
Nova Video Player picks all the videos from your phone’s storage for convenient playback. The app also lets you stream online videos and download and use subtitles for shows and videos in foreign languages.
This video player supports all major media file formats. It allows instant access to the recently added videos in your library and supports automatic retrieval of videos from where you left them watching.
Being free and ad-free, Nova Video Player provides an uninterrupted video-watching experience for online and offline videos.
Download:Nova Video Player (Free)
4 Visha Video Player
Visha Video Player is one of the more premium-feeling video players thanks to its minimal design and extremely responsive user interface. I never experienced any delay whatsoever, even when searching and loading large video files.
The app has a History tab that lets you see the videos you’ve partially watched, so you can continue watching from right where you left off.
It also has a built-in web browser, which you can use to download videos from the internet conveniently. However, downloading YouTube videos is forbidden as it goes against the platform’s Terms of Service.
Unlike KMPlayer, Visha Video Player allows you to convert videos to MP3 files for free. All your converted MP3 files will show up in a separate space, perfectly organized, so they don’t get mixed with the rest of your audio or video files.
Download:Visha Video Player (Free)
5 Night Video Player
Night Video Player is perfect if you like to use dark themes and prefer watching movies and TV shows at night while lying in bed.
As soon as you open the app, you will see the list of your phone’s video folders. You can easily select the media files you want to play or even add a specific video URL to play it instantly from the open stream option.
Night Video Player also has various audio-related features like voice enhancement, increasing speech volume, amplification, and normalization. The app can pretty much do anything you’d expect from a modern video player. The best part is that it’s free.
Download:Night Video Player (Free)
6 Just (Video) Player
Just (Video) Player is pretty straightforward and doesn’t offer any complicated features. It lets you play a video in any format and add subtitles if you want.
You can control the playback speed and change the brightness and the size of your video screen while playing your files. In addition, the app also supports video streaming.
You can download and use Just Player for free. The app doesn’t ask for any excessive permissions after installation.
Download:Just (Video) Player (Free)
7 Video Player KMP
KMP Video Player, a lighter and faster version of KMPlayer, offers many useful features. And it’s completely free.
A handy feature of this app is the ability to bookmark a video to play later. While playing a media file, the app lets you zoom in to the screen and allows you to change the playback speed.
KMP supports Chromecast and video streaming and lets you add subtitles to a video with ease from within the app. Moreover, you can personalize KMP with themes and home screen shortcuts.
Download:Video Player KMP (Free)
8 CM Player
CM Player has a simple interface and offers most of the standard video player features. As with other apps on this list, you can adjust the brightness and volume with gestures while playing a video. It also lets you change the playback speed.
Other than that, the app has several other miscellaneous features like resizing the video screen, multiple subtitle support, and themes for customization. It also lets you share videos with others over Wi-Fi.
Download:CM Player (Free)
9 Lark Video Player
Lark Video Player resembles the premium look and feel of Visha Video Player and adds a few extra features. For instance, it automatically identifies and organizes all the music videos saved on your phone in a separate folder, so you don’t have to bother searching for them manually.
The app even allows queuing saved videos or adding them to a playlist, which I thought was very clever. If you like to watch videos on your phone while cooking, for instance, this feature is a life-saver because you don’t have to select a new video every time the current one ends.
You can also loop videos, play them in a floating window (aka picture-in-picture), adjust their scale, and more. That said, it doesn’t support URL streaming or video-to-audio conversion.
Download:Lark Video Player (Free)
10 Next Player
Next Player is for those who want the essentials and nothing else. The app’s user interface strongly resembles Google’s Material You design language and changes the color theme based on your wallpaper, making it feel like a native app instead of a third-party one.
You can also customize video playback gestures, change themes, sort videos based on various parameters, and select folders on your phone that you want excluded from the media library.
Download:Next Player (Free)
All these apps offer smooth functioning and are generally well-received among Android users. Choosing the right app from this list depends on what features you are looking for, the look and feel of the app, and your personal preferences.
