It was worth it to me to finally have a DLNA client that actually worked. I took a blind chance and I’m pleased that I did. I was very apprehensive about paying the $7 or whatever without even being able to know if the steaming sucked like the rest or not. But at least you can get a feel of the interface and feel of it.
What you won’t be able to do in the free one is stream. It is free, but it is crippled until you buy the full version via in-app, and it’s a bit steep, about $7. There’s two caveats only that I should tell you. It loads indexes and thumbs quickly and the video is smooth and the best and most consistent I’ve seen yet. For audio tracks, it does AAC, MP3, FLAC, OGG, AC3 etc.
It plays everything the others lack in one or the other… MP4, MKV, WMV, FLV, AVI and other obscure **bleep**. I went through so many and finally lately I have found the one, I think: Infuse 2. Even the ones you would normally believe to be solid (VLC) are subpar. I’ve been searching for a decent DLNA client for iOS for years only to find constant **bleep**.