VLC for Android

Name: VLC for Android
Rating: 4.038817 (2011718 reviews)
Author: Videolabs

Videolabs

★ 4.0 (2,011,718 ratings)

⬇ 500,000,000+ downloads

Est. actual: 517,820,834

Free

Released: Feb 4, 2015

No in-app purchases

No ads

Rated: Everyone

Signals

4 this week · 2 positive · 1 warning All of this week's signals →

📈Last 7 days +1.4M installs — 5% slower than the week before (+1.5M) · 172K/day since Sep 26
🏆Among Video Players & Editors apps top 1% by installs gained this week (112 peers growing)
⭐Rating steady at ★ 4.04 since Sep 26
🛠Updates actively updated · updated 28 days ago · every ~156 days (2 updates tracked)

Estimates · last 30 days ⓘModelled figures, not reported by the store. Use them for scale and trends, not exact numbers.

Downloads ⓘTotal measured from the store install counter over the last 30 days. The split by country is estimated from chart positions in 20 markets with our own model — not figures reported by the store.

4.2Mmeasured · last 30 days

🇮🇳 India52%2.2M
🇩🇪 Germany6%272K
🇦🇺 Australia5%216K
🇨🇦 Canada4%168K
Other markets33%

Installs since launch

+7,240,148 installs · +6,670 ratings since Sep 26

Reviews

No reviews in the last 30 days (100 stored since Sep 25).

Update history

— Oct 14, 2026 · seen Oct 18, 2026

* Remote Access improvements and audio/subtitle tracks management * Video player fixes: 4K crop issue and screen off resume * TV equalizer improvements and volume reset fix * Audio player: load album arts at display resolution * General crash, security, and behavior fixes

VARY May 11, 2026 · seen Sep 26, 2026

* Equalizer fixes * Remote access: allow playing audio media in the browser * Add back the deletion for multiple file sin the browser * Update the remote access OTP code length * Improve the feedback UI * Add more size options for the subtitle size * Crash fixes

VLC for Android is a video players & editors app by Videolabs with 500,000,000+ downloads (about 518M estimated). +1.4M installs in the last 7 days. Rated 4.0 from 2M ratings. Released Feb 4, 2015. Install growth, rank history, SDKs and ad networks.

From the store listing: “VLC media player is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player that plays most multimedia files as well as discs, devices, and network streaming protocols. This is the port of VLC media player to the Android™ platform. VLC for Android can play any video and audio files, as well as network streams,…”