Screenbox AlternativesMedia Players and other similar apps like Screenbox

Screenbox is described as 'Modern video player that cares about performance and ease of use on a wide range of device types. It features a beautiful, friendly user interface while being fast and lightweight' and is a Media Player in the video & movies category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Screenbox for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Flathub apps. The best Screenbox alternative is VLC Media Player, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Screenbox are MPC-HC, MPV, SMPlayer and MPC-BE.

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  1. VLC Media Player icon

    VLC Media Player

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    Enjoy seamless media experiences with this cross-platform, ad-free player supporting multimedia files, DVDs, streaming, Chromecast, 4K, and no tracking. Customize with themes, play offline, and get privacy-focused service without registration. Fully extensible by plugins.

    166 VLC Media Player alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • BSD
    • iPad
    • AppImageHub
    • Apple Watch
    • Snapcraft
    • Google Chrome
    • Apple TV
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • F-Droid
    • Kindle Fire
    • Haiku
    • Android TV
    • Homebrew
    • Chocolatey
    • HUAWEI AppGallery
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    • VLC Media Player is the most popular Windows, Android, Mac & iPhone alternative to Screenbox.

    • VLC Media Player is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Screenbox.

    • VLC Media Player is Free and Open SourceScreenbox is also Free and Open Source
    • VLC Media Player is CustomizableScreenbox is not according to our users
  2. MPC-HC icon

    MPC-HC

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    A lightweight open-source media player for Windows, giving support for all video/audio formats. It boasts no ads, dark themes, codec support, and seamless YouTube playback. Developed by longtime contributors, it's mature software with community improvements and crash fixes.

    140 MPC-HC alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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  4. MPV icon

    MPV

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    MPV is an audio and movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2. It supports a wide variety of video file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.

    112 MPV alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • BSD
    • F-Droid
    • Haiku
    • Xfce
    • Chocolatey
    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft
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  5. SMPlayer icon

    SMPlayer

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    SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more. SMPlayer remembers the settings of all files you play.

    130 SMPlayer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • mpv
    • Snapcraft
    • PortableApps.com
    • Haiku
    • MPlayer
    • Flathub
    • Homebrew
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  6. MPC-BE icon

    MPC-BE

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    Media Player Classic - Black Edition (MPC-BE) is a fork of MPC and MPC-HC. It moved away from MPC's aim to mimic the look and feel of Windows Media Player with updated player controls and provides additional features on top of MPC-HC such as a video preview tooltip when...

    118 MPC-BE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. IINA icon

    IINA

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    IINA is born to be a modern macOS application, from its framework to user interface. It adopts the post-Yosemite design language and keeps up the pace of new technologies like Force Touch, Touch Bar and Picture-in-Picture.

    45 IINA alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • mpv
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  9. LLPlayer icon

    LLPlayer

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    A media player to enhance your language skills with dual and AI-generated subtitles powered by OpenAI Whisper. Real-time OCR, translation with Google/DeepL, and word lookup boost learning. Supports 134 languages, fully customizable shortcuts, and it's free & open-source.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. MPlayer icon

    MPlayer

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    MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation). 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.

    134 MPlayer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • AmigaOS
    • Xfce
    • MorphOS
    • Haiku
    MPlayer on Ubuntu (Linux)
     
  11. MX Player icon

    MX Player

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    Powerful video and music player with advanced hardware acceleration and subtitle supports

    135 MX Player alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Chrome OS
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  12. Celluloid icon

    Celluloid

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    Celluloid (formerly GNOME MPV) is a simple GTK+ frontend for mpv. Celluloid interacts with mpv via the client API exported by libmpv, allowing access to mpv's powerful playback capabilities.

    60 Celluloid alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • mpv
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  13. Windows Media Player icon

    Windows Media Player

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    Windows Media Player is a video and audio player developed by Microsoft for Windows 11 and Windows 10. It is the successor to Groove Music (previously Xbox Music), Microsoft Movies & TV and the original Windows Media...

    219 Windows Media Player alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Windows Media Player screenshot 1
     
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