Plug a USB drive into your iPad, pick a file, and watch. No subscription, no cloud, no tracking.
Some look great but charge $100 lifetime or $17 a year for what is, ultimately, a player for files you already own. Others work fine but feel like desktop ports from 2014. The rest either nag you for a subscription or haven’t shipped an update in years.
Home Video Player is built from scratch for one job: playing your local video files beautifully and reliably on iPad. Buy it once for $7.99 and never see another paywall.
Seven things that make the difference.
Plug in an external drive, browse files, play instantly — or batch-download for offline. No iTunes, no cloud, no hassle.
Auto-detects seasons and episodes. Sorts them properly. Shows your progress across collections — “watched 5 of 24” right on the card.
Remembers your position in every file. Pick up exactly where you stopped — even after closing the app or rebooting the iPad. Subtitle and audio language are remembered per series, too.
Auto-finds external .srt / .ass files next to your videos. Tap any word to translate it inline — fully offline thanks to Apple’s on-device translation. Built for language learners.
Double-tap to seek, swipe to dismiss, drag to scrub. Two seek modes — precise and relative. It feels like an iPad app, because it is one.
MKV, MP4, AVI, MOV, WebM. Multiple audio tracks, embedded and external subtitles, custom subtitle styling, 0.5×–2× playback speed.
Buy once, own forever. No account, no servers, no analytics SDKs. Your files stay on your device — we couldn’t see them if we wanted to.
