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24 alternatives to Material Player

A beautiful video player built on the same engine as VLC.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

1
Material Files – Open Source Material Design File Manager for Android▲163
Features: - Open source: Lightweight, clean and secure. - Material Design: Follows Material Design guidelines, with attention into details. - Breadcrumbs: Navigate in the filesystem with ease. - Root support: View and manage files with root access. - Archive support: View, extract and create common compressed files. - NAS support: View and manage files on FTP, SFTP and SMB servers. - Themes: Customizable UI colors, plus night mode with optional true black. - Linux-aware: Knows symbolic links, file permissions and SELinux context. - Robust: Uses Linux system calls under the hood, not yet…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
2
OneLinePlayer▲190
The simple and beautiful embed video player for web
2019 · onelineplayer.com · its alternatives →
3
Play Embedded Player▲169
A handy tool to narrate your Medium articles
2017 · its alternatives →
4
Material▲204
A beautiful graphics framework for Material Design in Swift
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
5
Player.style▲321
Video & audio player themes for every web player & framework
2024 · player.style · its alternatives →
6
Materialette▲177
A material design color palette on macOS / Windows / Linux
2016 · mike-schultz.github.io · its alternatives →
7
Timber▲118
Open source material design music player
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
8
🐵 MotionMonkey 1.3.0▲92
Streamlined Web + BitTorrent player from a VLC developer
2021 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
9BA
Building a VLC-like Media Player in JS (Using Ffmpeg as WebAssembly)▲23
2020 · bestmediaplayer.org · its alternatives →
10
Sato Video Player▲144
Build custom video players to match your UI without coding
Nov 2025 · satoplayer.com · its alternatives →
11
WXPlayer▲72
HD video player for Android with all-in-one video format
2022 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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CloudPlay - A music player for YouTube, SoundCloud, and more▲54
2012 · cloudplay.fm · its alternatives →
13
GridPlayer▲72
Play videos side-by-side
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
14
VLC Media Player▲8
A free and open source cross-platform multimedia player
2014 · videolan.org · its alternatives →
15
Play▲92
Music lovers, rejoice. Music videos with insider song facts.
2017 · its alternatives →
16
Onix Music Player▲72
The best music video streamer and music player app
2016 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
17
Mp, a hybrid isomorphic web/desktop music player▲23
Hybrid music player. Contribute to ondras/mp development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
18
Rocks Video Player▲8
HD Video Player All Formats
2024 · rocksplayer.com · its alternatives →
19
Player.html – the one file video library and player for any HTTP server▲20
One file drop-in media player web app for using video and audio files served using basic HTTP directory listing - pseudosavant/player.html
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
20
Vimeo Player▲59
The (new) HTML5 player
2014 · vimeo.com · its alternatives →
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Materialistic – Hacker News Android client with material design▲11
2015 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
22
Playback▲7
Video player built using Electron and IO.js
2015 · mafintosh.github.io · its alternatives →
23
Ambient Media Player▲6
Play media seamlessly and continuously without interruption.
2023 · amp.ka2.org · its alternatives →
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Material Audiobook Player▲5
audio player, audiobook, android
2016 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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