nPlayer looks to be the ultimate choice for users who need a video player on iOS

Developed by Newin Inc, nPlayer may seem like your standard video player - but is aiming to be the best in its field by providing high quality video play performance and support for a huge number of video formats and codecs.

User reviews include quotes such as "I have tested many apps but this one is my only official player for all my iDevice," "I've used a number of video players. This is by far the best," and "this is by far the best streaming app ever" just demonstrate that it's well on its way to achieving this aim too.

One way it looks to be the best video player on iOS is the Network Function, which - uniquely for video players for mobile devices - enables stream-play from a range of servers including WebDAV, FTP, SMB, and UPnP/DNLA.

You can also adjust a huge number of options while watching videos - including brightness, audio set-up, subtitles, aspect ratio, and more. Touch screen controls allow you to easily adjust playback, subtitle positions and fonts, and volume and brightness, too. The app makes sure that high resolution videos play fluidly without interruptions.

File management is also simple to grasp, with options to delete, move, rename, and create files - alongside a password lock system to make sure that your videos are kept safe. You can also transfer files without USB cable connection through a wi-fi connection.

As mentioned a range of video formats are supported, including (but not limited to) MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, WMV, ASF, FLV, OGV, RMVB, TP - as well as audio files in MP3, WAV, WMA, FLAC, and APE.

For real videophiles the app also allows H.264/MPEG4 hardware acceleration for MKV, AVI, and FLV formats over Local, HTTP, FTP, SFTP and SMB protocols - and even supports the official Dolby audio codec (AC3, E-AC3). The recently released 2.6.4 version of the app added support for Toshiba wireless storage devices too, such as FlashAir, Wireless SSD, and the Wireless Adapter.

So if you want to check out the video player that seems to be making waves you can download the iOS 8 compatible version of nPlayer for iPhone and iPad for $4.99 / £2.99 now [download].