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Last updated on: 2025-06-20
Android Apps > Video Players & Editors > VLC for Android
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VLC for Android

3.6.5
Videolabs
4.10
1,792,966 reviews
100,000,000+
Downloads
Free

VLC for Android is the best open source video and music player, fast and easy!

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About VLC for Android

VLC for Android is a video players & editors app developed by Videolabs. The APK has been available since February 2015. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded about 3.5 million times.
It's top ranked.
It's rated 4.10 out of 5 stars, based on 1.8 million ratings. The last update of the app was on May 7, 2025. VLC for Android has a content rating "Everyone".
VLC for Android has an APK download size of 46.32 MB and the latest version available is 3.6.5. Designed for Android version 11+. VLC for Android is FREE to download.
Description
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.
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More data about VLC for Android

Price Free to download
Total downloads 430 million
Recent downloads 3.5 million
Rating 4.10 based on 1.8 million ratings
Ranking Top ranked
Version 3.6.5
APK size 46.3 MB
Number of libraries 34
Designed for Android 11+
Suitable for Everyone
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App Achievements

#27 in Apps launched in 2015
#26 Where is my Train
#27 VLC for Android
#28 YouTube for Android TV
#12 in Video Players & Editors Apps
#11 SnackVideo
#12 VLC for Android
#13 Screen Recorder - XRecorder

Google Play Rating history and histogram

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Downloads over time

VLC for Android has been downloaded 430 million times. Over the past 30 days, it averaged 120 thousand downloads per day.

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Developer information for Videolabs

Videolabs

android-support@videolan.org

Website

18 rue Charcot
75013 Paris
France

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★★★★★ VLC is the best video player I have ever seen thank you 💕
★★★★★ Repeat function is now broken in a way that renders the app useless for albums. Repeat off stops playback after a single track at any point in a playlist and repeat all is now the same as repeat one. Edit: 3.6.5 has released, and the problem has not been fixed. Edit 2: correction - this has been fixed but is an option that is inexplicably hidden in display settings, which is hidden inside a menu that isn't settings. Don't know why that's a cheat code, but VLC is 5/5 again
★★★★★ Images of certain videos prior to playing do not correlate with the actual video being played.
★★★★★ This is as close to being the perfect media player as I've been able to find. Clean, unintrusive, and plays pretty much every format going. My only gripes are that there's a slight gap between audio tracks, which is really jarring especially when listening to an album, and that the mobile version doesn't yet seem to have the ability to play Bluray ISOs, which would really come in handy for my home media server. And where did the equalizer go?
★★★★★ The user appreciates the app but suggests adding a “Don’t play alone” checkbox to prevent music playback from stopping during actions like recording or video playback. They also report an issue where MP3 files placed in a specific folder; especially where it put together with the video, sometimes don’t appear, and the video player lacks support for custom secondary audio tracks. They hope these features will be considered in a future update.
★★☆☆☆ Update took away Skip buttons. Why??? Please put Skip buttons back. Now I can't skip videos with one touch. Now I have to back out of a video, then go down the line and find what I want then click on it and that's a pain to do when it's a long TV series cuz I then have to back track and retract a lot.
★★☆☆☆ Scrolling through the videos tab sometimes causes me to switch to the playlists tab which has nothing in it since all my videos are grouped by folder already. It would be nice if we could do away with the playlists tab and also having an easier to grab scroll bar instead of having to touch the absolute edge of the screen and it not being successful half of the time would be great, thanks
★★☆☆☆ I had the app for years and I was very satisfied with it but after a recent update it won't play my wav audios that previously was playing with no issues. I only downloaded it specifically to play wav files so I don't need the app anymore... I'm disappointed Update: It plays wav now, but it keeps stopping playing when I switch to other apps even tho I have my settings set to continue playing no matter what. They fix one thing and something else appears... I hope they fix everything soon...
★★☆☆☆ Had to uninstall as vlc would randomly start playing music on my phone with no interaction from me. Shame as I used to like this app

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Technologies used by VLC for Android

VLC for Android is requesting 29 permissions and is using 36 libraries.
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