Elmedia Video Player - Ratings and Reviews

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"Elmedia Player is a high-quality media player application that is designed specifically for Mac systems. The design of the app is intuitive and the UI is aesthetically pleasing. The price is comparable to other apps in this category and there are many different controls the user has over their media library. While the app itself is easy to use, there are many different paths online to get to the app and there are two different versions of the same app in the App Store. This gets confusing for someone attempting to find the app by searching."

Nicholas Calderone
macsources.com
"Elmedia is one of the best media players for MAC because of its versatility and user-friendliness. Although the free version offers ample features, however, if you need more! You can always upgrade it at a nominal cost."

Lucas Brown
reviewsed.com
"Elmedia Player is particularly so good that chances are you will never want to switch to any other media player again. No matter how you want to use it, you won’t be getting any issue of any kind. With many extra things to offer from the other media players; Elmedia Player is definitely one of the best media players for Mac users in the market at present."

Editorial Staff
techolac.com
"There are a lot of video players on the market, however it is easy to see why Elmedia Player is so popular among Mac users and why it has received so many five star reviews."

Kevin Muldoon
kevinmuldoon.com
"Elmedia Player is a good media player for the normal media playing needs and an excellent one for the advanced needs such as streaming your files or downloading the online videos for offline viewing. The interface is simple, it can play high-quality videos, doesn’t have any bugs."

Muhammed Swalih
thetechhacker.com
"Elmedia Player Pro is an inexpensive, more powerful alternative to QuickTime Player, and if you need it, the ability to download web content is easily worth the paid upgrade."

J.R. Bookwalter
macworld.com

Mac App Store reviews 4.5 out of 5 ( 11950 Ratings )

RyanBlanco
05/19/2020

A good go-to player

This player is really good -- it reminds me of VLC in a lot of ways... but its free version is nearly perfect. It has everything you need in order to enjoy your media. And the key commands (or "smart keys") are familiar and sensible. it was so good, i eventually paid for the full version! i gave it 4 stars because i feel that 5 stars is a perfect score, and not very many things are perfect. I can't remember the things about this app that aren't perfect, or to my precise liking, so… They're unimportant details, I guess. Anyway, great app. You should get it. Pay for the full version, if you're not broke.

Mac App Store reviews

RyanBlanco
05/19/2020

A good go-to player

This player is really good -- it reminds me of VLC in a lot of ways... but its free version is nearly perfect. It has everything you need in order to enjoy your media. And the key commands (or "smart keys") are familiar and sensible. it was so good, i eventually paid for the full version! i gave it 4 stars because i feel that 5 stars is a perfect score, and not very many things are perfect. I can't remember the things about this app that aren't perfect, or to my precise liking, so… They're unimportant details, I guess. Anyway, great app. You should get it. Pay for the full version, if you're not broke.
cjnwo4life
08/25/2021

Great

Overall, best video player in the market. Fast, easily adaptable to any video codec available and most importantly its ability to stream easily to other devices is exceptional. Subtitles can be a challenge, especially if you are streaming to another device as there appears to be no real conformity to a standard excepted from one device to another. Other than that, this is the best player on the market.

Mac App Store reviews

cjnwo4life
08/25/2021

Great

Overall, best video player in the market. Fast, easily adaptable to any video codec available and most importantly its ability to stream easily to other devices is exceptional. Subtitles can be a challenge, especially if you are streaming to another device as there appears to be no real conformity to a standard excepted from one device to another. Other than that, this is the best player on the market.
some other guy II 2
05/23/2022

Superior, but...

Finally, a media player without some completely incapacitating glaring gross functional shortcoming. (Why has there never been another in the apple store?) This one i just might subscribe lifetime. One small but hobbling issue, though : there appears to be no way to add tracks/titles to the playlist, for subsequent rearrangement, without interrupting the currently-playing track and beginning immediate playback of the first track being added — Most embarrassing when trying to build a playlist realtime at 165 decibels...

Mac App Store reviews

some other guy II 2
05/23/2022

Superior, but...

Finally, a media player without some completely incapacitating glaring gross functional shortcoming. (Why has there never been another in the apple store?) This one i just might subscribe lifetime. One small but hobbling issue, though : there appears to be no way to add tracks/titles to the playlist, for subsequent rearrangement, without interrupting the currently-playing track and beginning immediate playback of the first track being added — Most embarrassing when trying to build a playlist realtime at 165 decibels...
gunangf
09/06/2022

Taking Screenshots Takes Forever

I love the program but however, I do have one issue: the screenshots. I love how you can get every frame, but I do find it annoying that it takes FORVER to get all the screenshots that I want. I would suggest for a future update that users select a start point and an end point of where they want to take their screenshots and it'll put it all in your folder for you. It shouldnt take a half hour to get a whole bunch of screenshots. It should take at least three minutes.

Mac App Store reviews

gunangf
09/06/2022

Taking Screenshots Takes Forever

I love the program but however, I do have one issue: the screenshots. I love how you can get every frame, but I do find it annoying that it takes FORVER to get all the screenshots that I want. I would suggest for a future update that users select a start point and an end point of where they want to take their screenshots and it'll put it all in your folder for you. It shouldnt take a half hour to get a whole bunch of screenshots. It should take at least three minutes.

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What Elmedia Player’s customers say

trixivian, appfigures
11/10/2024

Highly recommended.

I am extremely impressed by this app. I had previously tried using the FFᴘʟᴀʏ utility to play back VVC video, but it had such high CPU utilization that I couldn’t watch 4K content. Elmedia Video Player, on the other hand, is so efficient that it only uses about 3/8ths of my M3 MacBook Air’s CPU to play back 4K HDR VVC — the most computationally intensive video format available!
Siya
9/15/2022

Highly recommended.

I have used Clementine and it was my top music player Mac app. Unfortunately, the app is not supported anymore. Have tried several from this list before I came along with Elmedia. Highly recommended.
Charles
9/14/2022

Elmedia player is my new favourite video player!

Elmedia player is my new favourite video player. So an attractive UI/UX design and is very smooth on my MacBook pro!
Eesa
9/14/2022

The Elmedia player is awesome.

Very smooth and intuitive Ui/UX design. Worth to enjoy the premium version.
Ricky
8/3/2022

Nice media player.

Nice media player. The free offerings are sufficient for most users, and advanced features can be unlocked via app purchase. Played all the videos I tried without a problem.
Daniela
7/13/2022

The best ever media player for Mac!

The best ever media player for Mac , very convenient and powerful application that handle almost every video or audio formate with a ton of features like fully customizable appearance for video brightness and contrast , audio equalizer, a-b loop , extensive support for subtitles , take screenshots from videos and create playlist and watch online videos , I replaced my QuickTime player in the dock with it and very happy with the application. It deserves more than 5 stars seriously.
Daniela
5/23/2022

Superior, but...

“Finally, a media player without some completely incapacitating glaring gross functional shortcoming. (Why has there never been another in the apple store?) This one i just might subscribe lifetime. One small but hobbling issue, though : there appears to be no way to add tracks/titles to the playlist, for subsequent rearrangement, without interrupting the currently-playing track and beginning immediate playback of the first track being added — Most embarrassing when trying to build a playlist realtime at 165 decibels…”
Aliza
3/10/2022

is just great and simple

Downloaded Elmedia for Mac m1 ….is just great and simple …thanks
Jasmine
2/23/2022

Definitely a very useful app.

Definitely a very useful app. My favorite video player. I would recommend it to everyone
Lana
2/12/2022

I love Elmedia Player

I love the app, it works great and it lets me switch audio tracks, have had it for a while and absolutely no issues
Fern
2/5/2022

Thanks Elmedia player Pro.

this app solved me a lot of problem specially with films multilingual on my Mac. the native Mac app does not do this in the rightway.
Sherri
12/12/2021

thank you for Elmedia!

Life saver!! thank you for Elmedia. It runs my subtitles. I am new to Mac after a lifetime of window – user. It is a difficult transition when you are used to certain apps.
Ember
11/9/2021

The player is great

I will be honest when I had a problem my initial thoughts were; just another con. well I have to say that was not right, they have been very helpful and always kept in touch even though they were having troubles. I am happy with their attention and can say be surprised they are great even with a small problem and the player is great!
Lennie
9/25/2021

My choice is Elmedia

My choice for more than 4 years is Elmedia. Nice interface, intuitive controls, many cool playback features.
Jack
8/25/2021

Great

Overall, best video player in the market. Fast, easily adaptable to any video codec available and most importantly its ability to stream easily to other devices is exceptional. Subtitles can be a challenge, especially if you are streaming to another device as there appears to be no real conformity to a standard excepted from one device to another. Other than that, this is the best player on the market.
Lillie Johnson
6/27/2021

Excellent Video Player!

I normally don’t like to write reviews, but I did see some low marks and wanted to balance it out for people that haven’t tried it. It’s only been less than a day, so we’ll see how things work out, but so far I was having trouble with another video player playback — out of sync, laggy — but when I downloaded and tried it with Elmedia, the video ran perfectly
Herbert Vo
5/5/2021

Works great for me but big battery consumpsion.

Works great for me but big battery consumpsion. I’ve used Elmedia for several years and i’ve been happy with it. I like it over quicktime because of the playlist and I like the clean interface and the dark backbground. recently, though, i’ve noticed that it’s a battery drain on my 2013 macbook pro running mojave…
Tommy
5/2/2021

This is a gotta have for your Mac!

This is a gotta have for your Mac!!! It has no rival, no close competitor. For audio or video it is most excellent!!!
Samira
3/20/2021

Best Video Player for Mac!!

I think it’s the best video player
Gillian Bruce
2/15/2021

I downloaded Elmedia Player instead Apple Music

I just downloaded the free version of Elmedia to try it out because I just hate Apple’s Music app (which sure is pretty, but just awful/frustrating to use). I wanted to see how Elmedia lets me organize and play my music library etc. but for the life of me I couldn’t figure out how to import my library from the Music app. I also have an extensive movie database but I thought I’d start with the music first. A subsequent email to the support line and Etima (the makers of Elmedia) say importing from the Music app is not possible. So I guess this is just like an alternate version of QuickTime Player or VLC – that’s fine, but I guess I don’t much see the point these days of people using something like this to listen to their music if everything needs to be located in the Finder or an Open dialog box beforehand.
Jeanette Girard
8/12/2020

Excellent lecteur multimédia avec de nombreuses fonctionnalités, il consomme peu de CPU, donc il fonctionne rapidement.

I just downloaded the free version of Elmedia to try it out because I just hate Apple’s Music app (which sure is pretty, but just awful/frustrating to use). I wanted to see how Elmedia lets me organize and play my music library etc. but for the life of me I couldn’t figure out how to import my library from the Music app. I also have an extensive movie database but I thought I’d start with the music first. A subsequent email to the support line and Etima (the makers of Elmedia) say importing from the Music app is not possible. So I guess this is just like an alternate version of QuickTime Player or VLC – that’s fine, but I guess I don’t much see the point these days of people using something like this to listen to their music if everything needs to be located in the Finder or an Open dialog box beforehand.
Lennon Ross
8/7/2020

Plays AVI with no problems

One of my AVI videos is not properly played in Quicktime, but I managed to play this file format in Elmedia Player with good resolution and no bugs.
Kerry
8/5/2020

Works well

Elmedia player works well. It has some nice features, such as air-play or streaming via chromecast. Use it often to watch movies on the bigger screen of my Samsung smart TV. It can also take snap shots at any point on a video file, while it’s being played.

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Elmedia Player

Universal video player for Mac

4.5 rank (Learn more)

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Requirements

Requirements: OS X 10.12+

Latest version

Latest version: v8.20(3430), released 10 Oct, 2024 Release notes