Url Player +

Review by eFreeware

Most video apps assume you have a library, a subscription or a catalog to browse. Sometimes you don't. You have a link, handed over by a colleague, saved from a forum, or copied out of a message, and the only question is how to get it onto a screen without signing into anything or handing your viewing habits to another service. That is the gap Url Player + is built around.

It sits in the Video Players & Editors category on Google Play. The idea is narrow on purpose: you supply the address of a video, the app plays it. There is no library to import and nothing to browse, which is either the whole appeal or no appeal at all, depending on how you watch things.

It is free to install and supported by advertising, and there are no in-app purchases. On Google Play it has passed a million installs and holds a 3.4 average from about 2,500 ratings, a middling score that suggests the app does its job for many people without delighting everyone. It arrived in April 2025 and picked up a small maintenance update in October of that year.

Paste a link, press play

The core of Url Player + is link playback, and the range of addresses it accepts is broader than you might expect from a free utility. The developer lists MP4, HLS, DASH, RTSP and RTMP among the supported formats, which covers both ordinary progressive video files and the streaming protocols used by cameras, encoders and live feeds. If you have ever been handed an RTSP address for a security camera and had nothing on your phone willing to open it, that list is the reason this app exists.

The workflow the developer describes is about as direct as it gets: enter the URL, and the video plays. There is no media library, search function or recommendation feed, and I would not expect one. This is a player for people who arrive with the address already in hand.

The app also registers itself as a destination for video links opened from other apps. If you tap a stream address in a browser or a messaging app, Url Player + can take over from there rather than making you copy the link, switch apps and paste it manually. That small piece of plumbing is the difference between using the app often and forgetting it exists.

Casting, favorites and history

Around the player itself sit a few conveniences that make repeat viewing less tedious. Favorites let you keep a link you return to, and a viewing history records what you have opened so you can find it again without digging through messages. Both are managed with a tap, and the developer says entries can be deleted just as easily when you are done with them.

Casting to Chromecast takes a single tap, which matters for anyone who would rather watch on a television than a phone screen. For a link-based player this is a natural fit: you find the address on your phone, send it to the TV, and the phone goes back in your pocket.

There is also a custom user agent setting. That is a technical option aimed at sources that refuse to serve video to certain clients, and it lets you present the app differently to those servers. Most people will never touch it, but for the kind of user who ends up troubleshooting a stream that plays everywhere except one place, it is the sort of control that saves an evening.

What the app asks of you

Two things are required before Url Player + is useful. The first is a video address you already have; the app does not supply content or help you find any. The second is an internet connection, since the video is streamed from the address you provide rather than stored on the device.

The privacy angle is the developer's central promise. The claim is that entered URLs and viewing history stay on your phone, that no personal information is collected or transmitted, and that internet access is used only to fetch the video from your link. Those are bold assurances, and I take them as the developer's stated position rather than something I can verify from a store page. The design is consistent with them: everything the app remembers is local.

On cost, the picture is simple: you pay with attention rather than money, and there is no paid tier to weigh against it.

Getting the most from a link player

The practical value of an app like this comes from having it ready before you need it. If you regularly receive stream addresses from a camera, a media server or a colleague, installing Url Player + in advance means a tap on the link opens it directly instead of starting a hunt for something that will play it. Setting that up once is the difference between a tool you use and an app you forget.

Favorites are worth using deliberately rather than casually. A link-based player has no catalog to browse, so the addresses you save become your catalog. Keeping the handful you actually return to, and clearing out the rest, keeps the app quick to open and easy to scan.

If a stream misbehaves, the custom user agent is the first setting I would look at, since it is the compatibility option for sources that are fussy about clients.

It is worth being realistic about the rating. A 3.4 average across roughly 2,500 ratings is not a ringing endorsement, and it tells you this is a utilitarian app that people judge on whether a particular link played. If your links are ordinary MP4 or HLS files, expectations should be modest and straightforward; if you are pushing unusual protocols at it, the app is at least built to try.

A narrow tool that knows its job

Url Player + does one thing and does not pretend otherwise. This app suits people who already have a link in hand and want to play it, with favorites and history to keep track of what they watched. It is a player for addresses you already hold, and it covers a wider spread of streaming formats than most free players bother with.

The people I would point it toward are those who deal in raw links: someone monitoring an RTSP camera feed, a user with a media server at home, or anyone who regularly opens video addresses passed along in chat. For them, the combination of broad format support, Chromecast casting, saved favorites and a local-only history is a sensible package, and the price of admission is nothing but a few ads.

The developer's privacy stance is the other draw, and it is the kind of promise that matters most to exactly this audience. I would treat it as a stated commitment rather than a guarantee, but the app's design, with everything stored on the device, is at least pointed in the right direction. Install it if links are how video reaches you; skip it if you were hoping for a library to browse.

What's new in version 1

fix some errors , improvements .