A simple material you video player based on Media3
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.
Download Statistics
Next Player has been downloaded 360 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 14 thousand times. It is ranked #181 in video players & editors.
User Ratings
Next Player is rated 4.40 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 3 thousand ratings.
App Information
Next Player is FREE to download. The APK download size is 12.73 MB. The latest version available is 0.16.3. The last update was on April 8, 2026.
Technical Requirements
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: - Player playlist view - Added Search functionality - Thumbnail generation strategies - Fixed audio boost not working in background play mode - Other fixes and improvements
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Really like Next Player - the UI is clean, modern, and lightweight, with a great library view and smooth navigation. One request: please improve AV1 software decoding on devices without AV1 hardware support. In comparison, VLC handles these files more smoothly. Overall, fantastic app! With some optimization, it could easily become the best FOSS video player on Android.
★★★★★Aiman Khatib· May 4, 2026
Amazing UI and smooth aswell, I would like if u could add more theme color options and UI layouts, the buttons look very big if only we can have more minimal UI with thinner Volume and Brightness seeker lines. Overall this app is amazing and exactly what I was looking for
★★☆☆☆Avisek Das· Apr 23, 2026
Great minimal UI, but a major issue: it uses a separate audio stream that bypasses system effects (DSP, Dolby, etc.). This breaks audio enhancements I rely on. Please add an option to choose the audio stream and default it to music. Until then, I’m using another player.
★★☆☆☆ARslan Ahmad· Apr 27, 2026
After too many updates this app is still unstable. If one bug fixed some other feature stop working. For instance, Picture-in-picture mode was fine earlier but with new update after adding search, multi-select and all that this mode is annoying and never works. You can't use touch in this mode. Some other bugs I found are following: - Showing total time over folder icon that is useless. - Always need to refresh every time, to fetch for new videos. It should be auto. - Last played is annoying.
★☆☆☆☆Choko Coco· May 24, 2026
This ... Thing just Deleted my videos Without my Confirmation Permanently. And with no possibility for recovery. There was No Recycle Bin or any other Folder for Deleted files. NOTHING. I even tried to find them with several types of Recovery-Apps to no use. They are Just GONE. DON'T USE THIS APP.
★☆☆☆☆Mujtaba Ahmadi· May 7, 2026
This is a good video player, but we can't play audios. I also confused that how can I bring subtitle in a video.
★☆☆☆☆Mike Diaz· Apr 5, 2026
The update broke the app...the app ui for volume overlaps with the phone app and if your watching something with subtitles the video progress bar overlaps with it when you touch the screen hiding it...don't fix something isn't broken it just makes things iller than improve
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Next Player is requesting 9 permissions and is using 13 libraries.
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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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