Hermit Crab Alternatives

Hermit Crab is described as 'Video organizer and video player for Mac that offers Photos-like UI' and is an app in the video & movies category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Hermit Crab for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best Hermit Crab alternative is VLC Media Player, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Hermit Crab are MPV, SMPlayer, IINA and KMPlayer.

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  1. jetAudio icon
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    JetAudio is integrated, multimedia software made of a single compact rack. Not only does it play various music and video files, it also has features such as CD burning, recording, and conversion to other file formats.

    112 jetAudio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  2. Tomahawk icon
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    Tomahawk gives you to access to all of your favorite music in one powerful media player. Seamlessly jump from playing a song off your local machine, to one streaming from your other machines, to a recommendation from Spotify, to a pre-release on SoundCloud to your favorite...

    94 Tomahawk alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
     
  3. SPlayer icon
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    SPlayer is a player that supports all popular formats, including DVDRip, HDTV, RMVB, QuickTime, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AC3/DTS, VP3/6/7, Indeo, XVD, OGG / OGM, APE, FLAC, TTA, AAC, MPC, 3GP/AMR, and subtitles.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  4. UMPlayer icon
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    UMPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems. It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  5. WaveTime icon
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    WaveTime is a fast, lightweight media player for macOS with a focus on transparency and precision. Unlike QuickTime, it’s designed for creators who need more than just play and pause.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
    • WaveTime is the most popular commercial alternative to Hermit Crab.

    • WaveTime is Paid and ProprietaryHermit Crab is Free and Proprietary
    • WaveTime is LightweightHermit Crab is not according to our users
  6. Winyl icon
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    Winyl is a free digital audio player and music library application for organizing and playing audio on Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Vidi icon
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    The modern video player your Mac deserves. Vidi combines universal format support (MKV, AVI, WebM) with best-in-class performance and battery efficiency. Features include a Pro Audio Suite, Advanced PiP for multitasking, and seamless casting to AirPlay, Chromecast, and DLNA.

    44 Vidi alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. MPlayerX icon
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    MPlayerX is an open source project which aims to be the most powerful, beautiful, easy to use multimedia player on Mac OS X.

    95 MPlayerX alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Warning
    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • MPlayer
     
  9. Movist icon
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    Movist is a movie player for Mac OS based on QuickTime & FFmpeg.

    A Simple and clean interface and high codec compatibility make this a real challenger to VLC.

    91 Movist alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    Real Alternative allows your system to play Real Media files (.ra .ram) without having to install the full version of RealPlayer.

    47 Real Alternative alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    QuickTime Alternative is a trimmed-down version of QuickTime Player that contains only the essential components needed for playing QuickTime content that is embedded in webpages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Zoom Player icon
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    Zoom Player is a powerful, flexible and customizable DVD and media player for Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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