# Next Player

> A simple material you video player based on Media3

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/dev.anilbeesetti.nextplayer](https://chrome-stats.com/d/dev.anilbeesetti.nextplayer)

## Overview

- **ID:** `dev.anilbeesetti.nextplayer`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Anil Kumar Beesetti
- **Category:** VIDEO\_PLAYERS
- **Downloads:** 402,874
- **Rating:** 4.33 / 5 (3,432 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.17.5
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-09
- **First published:** 2023-07-21
- **Publisher country:** IN
- **Size:** 17 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-03
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.anilbeesetti.nextplayer)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/anilbeesetti/nextplayer](https://github.com/anilbeesetti/nextplayer)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anilbeesetti/nextplayer/main/PRIVACY](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anilbeesetti/nextplayer/main/PRIVACY)

## Description

Next Player is a native Android video player crafted with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, featuring a clean Material You interface. It supports a wide range of audio and video formats including Vorbis, Opus, MP3, H.263, H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, and AV1, as well as streaming protocols such as DASH, HLS, and RTSP.

Designed for simplicity and usability, Next Player offers features like audio and subtitle track selection, gesture controls for brightness, volume, and seeking, playback speed adjustment, pinch to zoom, multiple resize modes, volume boost, external subtitle support, controls lock, and picture-in-picture mode. The app is completely free, open source, ad-free, and respects user privacy by avoiding excessive permissions. Explore and contribute to the development through its GitHub repository.

## Rankings

- #111,696 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MEDIA_PLAYBACK`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.READ_MEDIA_VIDEO`
- `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK`
- `dev.anilbeesetti.nextplayer.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`

## Review summary

Next Player is praised for being ad-free, open-source, lightweight, and easy-to-use with smooth playback and broad format support. Recurrent issues center on updates that hurt usability and performance, volume control being imprecise, unreliable resume/playback, and subtitle problems (delay, small text, lack of VTT encoding).

### Pros

- Ad-free and free to use
- Clean, modern UI with Material 3 design and good customization
- Open-source and privacy-respecting
- Smooth playback with broad format support and easy to use
- Lightweight, low-resource video player

### Cons

- Major updates degraded usability and performance: UI changes slow things down and make the app harder to use
- Volume control is inconsistent after updates; precise level setting is not possible
- Resume/playback frequently breaks or cannot resume correctly
- Subtitle issues include delays, small font size, and lack of VTT encoder support
- New UI changes are disliked by users and some wish for older UI or more design polish

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/dev.anilbeesetti.nextplayer)