The Best Improved UI Alternatives in 2026

ModernZ adds features to an mpv on-screen controller and is a fork of ModernX that retains mpv’s controller standards.

MPC-QT reimplements much of the Media Player Classic interface with Qt and uses libmpv for video playback.

mpv-webm adds a simple WebM creation script to mpv without external dependencies.

Museeks provides a cross-platform music player with a simple interface, according to its project description.

H5player enhances audio and video playback on websites, with listed features including playback speed controls, screen capture, and downloads.

Reiverr combines an interface for Jellyfin and TMDB with Radarr and Sonarr, and describes itself as a replacement for Overseerr.

ncmpc++ provides an MPD client through a feature-rich ncurses interface.

ThumbFast generates on-the-fly thumbnails for mpv and is designed to work alongside an interface script.

Airsonic-refix provides a modern web interface for Subsonic-compatible music servers.

MPC-BE is a Windows player for audio and video files, derived from Media Player Classic code.

Flyleaf provides a .NET media player library for WinUI 3, WPF, and WinForms, supporting audio, video, images, playlists, and protocols.

Rise Media Player brings together playback for videos, music, discs, and streaming services in a WinUI application.

Syncplay synchronizes playback position and play state across media players such as mpv, VLC, MPC-HC, and MPC-BE over the internet.

Streamlink pipes streams from supported services into a media player through its command-line utility and Python library.

Play multiple videos side by side with gridplayer, a desktop video player project.

Musikcube combines a terminal music player with an audio engine, metadata indexer, and server in C++.

This mpv script ports SponsorBlock to the player and skips sponsored segments in YouTube videos.

Strawberry provides music playback through its player project, with source code and releases on GitHub.

Kawaii-Player combines multimedia playback, media library management, and a portable media server with PC-to-PC casting.

Swing Music is a self-hosted player for local audio files, according to its project description.

Quod Libet is a music player and library manager for Linux, Windows, and macOS.

Tethys replaces mpv’s built-in on-screen controller with a themed interface that includes thumbnail previews and a picture-in-picture button.

This Ansible playbook automates a home media server stack running in Docker, with options including GPU acceleration and SSL.

PlexKodiConnect synchronizes media from a Plex server into Kodi’s native database for browsing through Kodi.