# Media Bar

> Media playback controls and progress indicator for your Status Bar!

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/apps.ijp.mediabar](https://chrome-stats.com/d/apps.ijp.mediabar)

## Overview

- **ID:** `apps.ijp.mediabar`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** IJP
- **Category:** MUSIC\_AND\_AUDIO
- **Downloads:** 161,372
- **Rating:** 3.61 / 5 (723 ratings)
- **Version:** MB\_2.8\_BETA
- **Last updated:** 2025-09-16
- **First published:** 2021-05-17
- **Publisher country:** IN
- **Size:** 25 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-16
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=apps.ijp.mediabar)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.ijp.app/privacy-policy](https://www.ijp.app/privacy-policy)

## Description

**Media Bar** (beta) transforms your device's status bar into an intuitive media controller and progress indicator. It allows you to see and control media playback—whether music, podcasts, or videos—directly from the status bar without disrupting your activities. Features include a thin progress bar at the top or bottom of the status bar, swipe gestures to scrub through content, and 3 customizable invisible buttons for play/pause, skip, and more.

Users can personalize the Media Bar with adjustable thickness, position, transparency, and color coding modes such as solid, dynamic, segmented, and gradient colors reflecting media progress or album art. Media Bar requires enabling Accessibility and Notification Access services but ensures privacy as it doesn't collect any personal data. This extension is perfect for multitaskers who want seamless media control while browsing, gaming, or working on their devices.

## Rankings

- #177,079 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_TOPICS`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.BIND_NOTIFICATION_LISTENER_SERVICE`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES`
- `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK`
- `apps.ijp.mediabar.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`
- `apps.ijp.mediabar.INTERNAL`
- `com.android.vending.BILLING`
- `com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE`
- `com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE`
- `com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID`
- `com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES`

## Review summary

Media Bar is widely praised as a useful, one-of-a-kind media control tool that many users find valuable when it works. However, repeated issues across devices and updates hinder adoption: frequent crashes/not functioning, overlay in landscape blocking touch and video/notifications, billing frustrations (per-device subscriptions and failed restore purchases), One UI compatibility/accessibility problems, and occasional auto-disappearances requiring reactivation. The concept and overall sentiment are positive, but reliability and cross-device compatibility must improve for broader user satisfaction.

### Pros

- Valuable, unique media control bar that many users find useful.
- Generally positive reception with reviewers calling it good, great, amazing, and one-of-a-kind.
- App is appreciated when updated and improvements are acknowledged.

### Cons

- Frequent crashes and not functioning on various devices and after updates.
- Overlay in landscape blocks touch and interferes with full-screen video and the notification shade.
- Billing frustrations (per-device subscriptions, donations) and failed restore purchases.
- One UI/accessibility issues (can't pull down the control center / access control panel).
- Bar disappearing automatically requiring reactivation / accessibility toggle friction.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/apps.ijp.mediabar)