Best Free Movie Apps/ Media Players for Android

Larger screen, lengthened battery duration time and speedy Wi-Fi network, all these factors contribute to your keen enjoyment of movies on your mobile phone, especially during your travels. Yet, to improve your viewing experience, good movie apps are indispensable. Let’s check out some of the best free movies apps for Android phones or viewed as media players.

No. 1, 2  and 5 provide full-length movies while the other provide mostly clips/trailers, and images/information.

1. Crackle – Movies & TV

With Crackle app, you can watch full-length Hollywood blockbusters or TV shows on your mobile phone without signing-up and payment. You can catch up with the latest videos since sources are upgraded monthly!
3G, 4G, or Wi-Fi, with either network connection, you can enjoy FREE movies of high quality on your Android phone & tablet!
App works in US, Canada, UK and Australia.

Amazon Instant Video

Watch thousands of titles available from Prime Instant Video at no additional cost with an Amazon Prime membership and over 120,000 videos available from the Amazon Instant Video store by installing the Amazon Instant Video app. Download purchased and rented videos from Your Video Library for offline viewing on airplanes, road trips, or any time a WiFi connection is unavailable. Keep track of movies and TV shows to watch later by adding them to Your Watchlist. A selection of top Prime Instant Video titles is included in the app, and you can visit Amazon to add other Prime titles to Your Watchlist. Start watching a video on an iPad and Whispersync technology automatically syncs your place between devices, allowing videos to be resumed from where you left off on a Kindle Fire, PS3, PC, Mac, or hundreds of models of connected TVs and Blu-ray players. The Amazon Instant Video app for iPad is designed for an unmodified version of iOS.

With Amazon Instant Video, you can:
• Stream thousands of titles available from Prime Instant Video at no additional cost with a Prime membership, or watch over 120,000 videos available from the Amazon Instant Video store
• Download purchased and rented videos from Your Video Library
• Shop over 120,000 videos available from the Amazon Instant Video store by visiting Amazon
• Add videos to your Watchlist from a PC, Mac, or Kindle Fire for later viewing on your iPad
• Subscribe to a TV Season Pass by visiting Amazon and episodes will automatically be available on your iPad the day after they air
• Start watching on your iPad, and resume watching right where you left off on a Kindle Fire, PS3, PC, Mac, or hundreds of models of connected TVs and Blu-ray players with Amazon Whispersync.

Tablets like the Kindle Fire and iPad give you maximum convenience, allowing you to watch Amazon Instant Video wherever you go, whether in your bedroom, at a hotel, or on the road (or in the air!). Amazon Instant Video titles, including Prime Instant Video, stream instantly to your tablet wherever you are connected to WiFi. For the ultimate convenience, you can download any rented or purchased title to your tablet to watch even when you are without a WiFi connection, like in a car or on a plane.

From apple

Best Video Player MX Player

MX Player is the first Android video player that performs multi-core decoding. According to the test results on dual-core devices, it shows up to 70% performance improvement than single-core devices.

Features of MX Player:

• Multi-core Decoding - MX Player is the first Android video player that performs multi-core decoding. According to test results on dual-core devices, it showed up to 70% performance improvement over single-core decoding. 
• CPU Optimize - Provides Codecs and Rendering Engines highly optimized for processors including ARM® NEON™ and NVIDIA® Tegra™ 
• Pinch Zoom - Easily zoom in and out by pinching and swiping across screen. 
• Subtitle Scroll - Scroll on subtitle text and playback position will be adjusted to match previous or next subtitle timing. 
• Kids Lock - Keep your kids entertained without having to worry about making calls or touching other apps. 
• Fully supports Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.

Playback:

• Plays almost every movie files including .3gp .avi .divx .f4v .flv .mkv .mp4 .mpeg .mov .vob .wmv .webm .xvid and many more.
• Processor optimization

1.High speed rendering for ARM® NEON™ compliant processors.
2.Provides processor specific Codecs including Tegra 2 processor.

• Audio track can be changed dynamically.
• Quickly change decoding mode - Click S/W or H/W button on the screen while playing to change decoding mode seamlessly.
• Network stream playback.
• Move forward/backward (Optional)
• Aspect ratio selection.
• De-interlacing (S/W decoding mode only)
• Keyboard shortcuts

1.Space: Resume / Pause
2.DPAD Left / Right: Seek backward / forward
3.Menu shortcuts

• Toggle between elapsed time and remaining time - touch elapsed time text on the video control panel.

from mxvpen

Movie Player Introduction

With Movie Player you can now watch all your favorite films on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Movie Player supports all popular file formats! No video conversion is required beforehand!

Supported Formats: divx, avi, flv, mov, wmv, mpg, mpeg, mpeg1, mpeg2, mpeg4, mp4, m4v , mpv, vob, ts, ogv, ogm, mkv, dv, asf, 3gp, m2p, m2ts, m2v, gxf


Features At A Glance:

✔ Compatibility: Movie Player plays almost any Video format!

✔ File-Management: Transfers films via iTunes, Dropbox, WiFi or direct download from the web to your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.

✔ Dropbox: Play films from your Dropbox.

✔ Integration: Movie Player even plays Videos from E-Mail attachments, from your Web-Browser and from many other Apps.

✔ Folders: Sort and group your films with folders.

✔ Easy renaming: Rename your films directly within the App.

✔ Playlist: With the Playlist function you can watch several movies in a row without interruption.

✔ Direct deletion: And should you start to run short of space on your device, you can delete movies directly from the device.

Recommendation: For optimum playback, we recommend you use an iPad, at least an iPhone 4 or a 4th generation iPod Touch.
From itunes.apple