We’ll review some of the best options available for Mac OS and Mac OS X users.Ī quick note: most Mac users will find that QuickTime and Photos app are perfectly sufficient to watching their own personal videos on the Mac, the options here are aimed at Mac users who are looking for a third party video player app with support for many video formats often found on the web, downloaded, or ripped from their personal collections. The open source IINA macOS media player is a free download, and you can check out IINA’s GitHub page here.The best video player apps support a wide variety of movie file formats, are easy to use, support 1080p and 4k video, are full-featured, are free to download and don’t arrive with junkware, and are lightweight. IINA is compatible with macOS 10.11 and later, but the developer recommends using it with macOS Mojave (10.14) for the best experience.
While VLC has been one of the most popular choices for open source video players for a while, IINA looks to be a compelling choice for Mac users with tight integration of both design and functionality for macOS.
It adopts the post-Yosemite design language of macOS and keeps up the pace of new technologies like Force Touch, Touch Bar, and Picture-in-Picture. IINA is born to be a modern macOS application, from its framework to the user interface. Here’s how the developers describe the media player: It includes solid features like a dark mode, picture in picture, customizable interface, and more and looks to be a nice alternative to VLC.Īfter leaving beta, IINA has officially been made available today as a free, open source macOS-only media player and looks to have both great design and functionality. A new open source, modern media player has launched today called IINA that’s made just for macOS.
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