VLC for Mobile

Entertainment — World’s most used media now for all major mobile platforms [Android, iOS, Windows]

Entertainmentopen-sourceest. 2015

— Unverified

Verdict from HTTP liveness real

last probed Aug 27, 2026

Pulse 17.7 · 2/4

17.7

Pulse Index

2/4 families · real

0.0

30-day Δ

pulse momentum · real

HTTP probes

liveness history · real

Functional tags

observed attributes · real

Risk read derived from observed signals

Liveness is unverified — no conclusive probe observation exists for the recorded URL. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days.

HTTP liveness

real

34 probes · Jun 16, 2026 → Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only

Liveness probereal

alive in 0% of 34 probesavg response 630 ms

Developer tractionchecked · none

No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.

Press & sentimentchecked · none

No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.

Web footprintreal

resolved host
videolan.orgedge
direct originserver
nginx/1.31.3Tranco rank
#3,322

Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

VLC for Mobile's site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026, so its status is unverified — we do not guess. Its Pulse Index is 17.7 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 7 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 1 linked rival, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity

Company	Basis	Overlap	Pulse	30d Δ	Status
Plexentertainment	curated	—	43.2	-6.8	● live
Snaptube Appentertainment	similar	86%	8.0	0.0	— unverified
360 Calmhealth	tag-overlap	86%	40.0	0.0	● live
Tsacdopentertainment	similar	86%	8.0	0.0	— unverified
Kodi (XBMC) for Androidentertainment	similar	78%	0.0	0.0	■ inactive
VLC Media Playerentertainment	similar	78%	17.7	0.0	— unverified
IsoPlexentertainment	similar	75%	3.2	-30.4	■ inactive
Lawnchair Launcherentertainment	similar	71%	8.0	0.0	— unverified

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes

Business modelopen-source

Liveness tierunknown

Competitive alternatives1

Open sourceNo

Public APINo

Free tierNo

Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes

PROBED	HTTP	ORIGIN → RESOLVED	SERVER	MS	VERDICT
2026-08-27 18:06Z	418	videolan.org	nginx/1.31.3	310	unknown
2026-08-26 09:37Z	418	videolan.org	nginx/1.31.3	466	unknown
2026-08-19 13:59Z	418	videolan.org	nginx/1.31.3	1085	unknown
2026-08-11 00:34Z	418	videolan.org	nginx/1.31.3	890	unknown
2026-08-08 06:27Z	418	videolan.org	nginx/1.31.3	647	unknown
2026-08-05 18:47Z	418	videolan.org	nginx/1.31.3	810	unknown
2026-07-30 18:01Z	418	videolan.org	nginx/1.31.3	718	unknown
2026-07-23 09:21Z	418	videolan.org	nginx/1.31.3	668	unknown
2026-07-22 09:24Z	418	videolan.org	nginx/1.31.3	524	unknown
2026-07-21 09:25Z	418	videolan.org	nginx/1.31.3	580	unknown
2026-07-20 09:53Z	418	videolan.org	nginx/1.31.3	539	unknown
2026-07-19 09:04Z	418	videolan.org	nginx/1.31.3	456	unknown
2026-07-18 08:45Z	418	videolan.org	nginx/1.31.3	489	unknown
2026-07-17 09:06Z	418	videolan.org	nginx/1.31.3	632	unknown

Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.

Launch Sentinel tear sheet · VLC for Mobile · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/vlc-for-mobile · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.