Next Player is a native Kotlin-based video player built with Jetpack Compose, delivering a simple, ad-free experience with Material 3 styling. It supports a broad range of audio, video, and subtitle formats, gesture controls, and Picture-in-Picture, all while remaining open source. With 100,000+ total downloads and 14K in the last 30 days, Next Player demonstrates solid growth in the MEDIA_VIDEO category.
Pros & Cons
Native Android app with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
Completely free and open source, with no ads or excessive permissions
Material 3 themed UI with You support and intuitive gesture controls
Broad media format support and easy audio/subtitle track selection
Competitors may offer broader format/codec support (e.g., MKV, HD, additional codecs)
Some advanced playback features common in larger players may be missing
About Next Player
Next Player is a video players & editors app developed by Anil Kumar Beesetti.
How many times has Next Player been downloaded?
Next Player has been downloaded 410 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 14 thousand times.
What is the rating of Next Player?
Next Player is rated 4.37 out of 5 stars, based on 3.3 thousand ratings.
Is Next Player free?
Next Player is free to download. The APK download size is 14.55 MB. The latest version available is 0.17.5. The last update was on August 8, 2026.
What are the requirements for Next Player?
The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play July 2023.
Description
Next Player is a native video player written in Kotlin and jetpack compose. It provides a simple and easy-to-use interface for users to play videos on their Android devices
This project is still in development and is expected to have bugs
* Native Android app with simple and easy-to-use interface * Completely free and open source and without any ads or excessive permissions * Material 3 (you) support * Audio/Subtitle track selection * Vertical swipe to change brightness (left) / volume (right) * Horizontal swipe to seek through video * Media picker with tree, folder and file view modes * Playback speed control * Pinch to zoom in and zoom out * Resize (fit/stretch/crop/100%) * Volume boost * External subtitle support (long press subtitle icon) * Controls lock * No ads, tracking or excessive permissions * Picture in picture mode
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Recent changes: - Hidden video vault with PIN lock and hide/unhide support - Copy and move actions for media files - Initial Android TV support - Add SMB, FTP, and WebDAV network playback - Improved media scanning - Some more fixes and improvements
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Best Video Player Ever!!!!!!. Even better than VLC and way too much better than MX Player.
★★★★★Rajvir· Jul 26, 2026
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Next Player is one of the best video players on Android. It has a clean UI, network video playback, playback speed, and a very useful Skip Silence feature. The only missing features are Audio Delay (Sync). Please add in a future update. This would make Next Player an even better video player. Thank you for this great app!
★★☆☆☆Snehasis Modak· Jul 19, 2026
Best video player app keep updating like that.... Please add feature like to move, copy, 10bit support etc... edited - move, copy added 10bit needed badly
★☆☆☆☆Un owen· Aug 23, 2026
Horrible. Most videos will not immediately play and can display spinning circle. Some will play after a long delay. Some videos will not play. Other players dot not have this problem
★★☆☆☆Hemayet Hossain· Jul 25, 2026
Fix those: 1. When swip or double tap to ff a buffering animation appears on mid-display it feels laggy playback, fix it 2. Add recently played video folder/options 3. Add video filters like warm, vivid, cool, high contrast etc., or add video scene adjusting options manually like contrast, gamma, saturation, brightness etc
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Trust & Safety: Open-source project with no ads; requests standard playback permissions (INTERNET, ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE, FOREGROUND_SERVICE, FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MEDIA_PLAYBACK, WAKE_LOCK, READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, READ_MEDIA_VIDEO) and DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION. Users should review permission scope on install.
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