Movist Pro
Movist Pro is a native macOS media player for watching local, network, and web video with advanced subtitle and playback controls.
What is Movist Pro?
Movist Pro is a media player for macOS built for users who want more control over video playback than the basic system player provides. It helps you watch local video files, stream media from network servers, and open supported web video sources from a desktop app. The player includes hardware-accelerated playback, subtitle customization, playlist tools, picture-in-picture, and detailed audio and video controls for movie watching and language study. It also supports features such as AirPlay, HDR tone mapping, multiple subtitle display, and playback from SMB, FTP, SFTP, and WebDAV servers. Movist Pro is published by Chul Joo and is designed for Mac users who regularly watch downloaded media, home server libraries, or internet video on macOS.
Key features
- Play local video and audio files with hardware-accelerated decoding.
- Stream media directly from SMB, FTP, SFTP, and WebDAV servers.
- Open supported web video sources and internet media links.
- Customize subtitles with multiple tracks, styling, positioning, and speech playback.
- Use picture-in-picture, AirPlay, and playlist management while watching.
- Adjust playback with video filters, HDR tone mapping, equalizer, and audio output options.
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Movist Pro is a legitimate media player for macOS. It normally needs access to files, folders, or network locations that you choose so it can open media, subtitles, and server-based video streams. If you use web video, browser integration, or network server features, the app may connect to online services and local or remote media shares as part of normal playback. Keep it updated, and grant access only to the folders, servers, and media sources you intend to use.
Recommendation: Keep Movist Pro if you use it for watching local files, streamed media, or subtitle-heavy video on your Mac. If you do not use it anymore, you can remove it like other third-party apps; doing so will only affect your ability to open media with Movist Pro and may remove its saved preferences or playlists.
Common paths
/Applications/Movist Pro.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/com.movist.MovistPro
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/Movist Pro
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.movist.MovistPro.plist
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