Most media players are like a kitchen drawer: everything’s in there somewhere. Subtitle timing, audio tracks, picture settings—you only find them by digging through menus, usually halfway through the film.
Cru Media Player
A modern video player for macOS, Windows and Linux. Clean when you just want to watch, deep when you want control.
Stop digging through menus.
Cru brings the controls to the surface. A cleaner interface you can rearrange to suit you, built with accessibility in mind, where almost everything is a key press or a trackpad gesture away. Less hunting, more watching.
3desktop platforms
4feeds in multi-view
10settings panels, all searchable
1engine: mpv
Everything a film night or a subtitle fix needs.
Subtitles late? Drag them into place.
The subtitle timeline sits on the audio waveform, so you can see where the line is spoken and slide it to match.
See the frame before you jump.
Hover the seek bar for an exact preview. Hold Shift for 10× finer scrubbing.
Swipe for volume. Pinch to zoom.
Trackpad swipes set brightness and volume; double-click either side to jump 10 seconds.
Watch four at once, perfectly in sync.
Add up to three extra feeds. Play, pause, speed and seeks stay locked to the main video, and you choose which one you hear.
Pick up right where you left off.
Continue watching keeps your place, and Cru offers to resume when you reopen a file.
Shape the sound with your mouse.
Drag points on a parametric EQ. Cru lowers the gain for you, so nothing clips.
Send it to the TV.
Cast to DLNA and UPnP TVs and speakers on your network, with seeking.
Put the controls where you want them.
In Settings › Interface › Control bar layout, drag buttons on and off the bar and save layouts to switch between. Then pick a theme and accent colour.
And more
- Picture in picture
- An Inspector for subtitles, audio and video
- Anime4K and FSR shaders
- IPTV channel lists
- Network streams: RTSP, SRT, RTMP
- Convert to MP4 or HEVC
- OpenSubtitles search
- Sleep timer
- Reverse playback
- HDR tone mapping
- Screenshots
Built to be driven from the keyboard.
SpacePlay / pause
← →Seek 5 s
, .Step one frame
↑ ↓Volume
FFullscreen
IPicture in picture
[ ]Slower / faster
⌘BBookmark
SScreenshot
HHide UI
⌘GMulti-view
⌘TOpen & tools
A selection. ⌘ is Ctrl on Windows and Linux.
Up and running in a minute.
Mac
Open the .dmg and drag Cru into Applications.
Windows
Run the installer, or unzip the portable version anywhere.
Linux
Install libmpv2 (sudo apt install libmpv2), extract the archive and run cru_media_player.
First launch on a Mac
Cru isn’t notarised by Apple yet: right-click the app › Open › Open, or System Settings › Privacy & Security › Open Anyway.
First launch on Windows
SmartScreen may not recognise the app yet: More info › Run anyway.
Built with
- Flutter
- mpv (libmpv via media_kit)
- libass subtitles
- GLSL shaders
- Automated end-to-end tests
Get Cru Media Player
Free on all three platforms. On Windows there’s also a portable .zip that runs without installing.