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Vumoo: Taken offline March 2024

The best Vumoo alternative in 2026

Vumoo was taken offline by its operator in March 2024 after action by ACE, which still controls the domain. Other Vumoo sites are copies.

By the Rotten Brains team · Updated 23 September 2026 · 3 min read

The short answer

Vumoo went offline in March 2024 and its domain still belongs to ACE, so the Vumoo sites you find now are not the original. Rotten Brains is free, needs no account, and finds a working source for you.

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Rotten Brains on a laptop and a phone: the player, the controls and what to watch next.

What happened to Vumoo?

Vumoo launched in 2016 at vumoo.to. A year later, in August 2017, an Australian court ordered ISPs to block it at Foxtel's request, alongside Putlocker and YesMovies.

It kept growing regardless, and by early 2024 it had more than 12 million visits a month. ACE had meanwhile used DMCA subpoenas to get identifying details from the .to registry and from Cloudflare.

In March 2024 the operator took vumoo.to offline, in ACE's word "voluntarily", and the domain's nameservers were switched to ACE's own. On 23 September 2026 it still pointed to ACE and served no site. Other domains with the Vumoo name show up in search results, but nothing links them to the original operator.

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Vumoo vs Rotten Brains

  • Status

    Vumoo: Taken offline March 2024

    ✓Rotten Brains: Online and updated every day

  • Who runs it

    Vumoo: Unknown copies using the name

    ✓Rotten Brains: One site, one domain

  • Account needed to watch

    Vumoo: Usually not

    ✓Rotten Brains: No

  • When a server fails

    Vumoo: Pick another by hand

    ✓Rotten Brains: Switches source by itself

  • Subtitles

    Vumoo: Varies

    ✓Rotten Brains: Many languages, several versions each

  • Watch parties

    Vumoo: Rarely

    ✓Rotten Brains: Yes, friends join without an account

  • Resume on any device

    Vumoo: Rarely

    ✓Rotten Brains: Yes, with a free account

A look around Rotten Brains

Real screenshots from the site, in the order that matters most to someone coming from Vumoo.

01

Built for your phone too

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The watch page on a phone
Player pinned on top, the episodes underneath.
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The subtitle list on a phone
Subtitles and sources from the same menus as on a laptop.

The site works the same on a phone as on a laptop: the player pins to the top, the episode list scrolls underneath, and the controls are sized for thumbs.

Add it to your home screen and it opens full screen, like an app, with no store and no install.

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02

Every season and episode, with Up Next

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A Breaking Bad episode with the season list and Up Next
Every season beside the player, the episode you are on marked.

Shows open on a watch page with every season beside the player. The episode you are on is marked, and Up Next sits right above the list, so finishing an episode is one tap from the next.

Anime is here too, with sub and dub where both exist.

Start Breaking Bad from the pilot

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03

Pick up where you left off

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Continue Watching on the Rotten Brains home page
Continue Watching at the top of the home page.

With a free account, every movie and episode remembers the second you stopped, on every device. Continue Watching sits at the top of the home page, next to what is new in the shows you follow.

You never need the account to watch. It only adds the memory.

Make a free account

04

The player finds a working source by itself

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The source menu in the Rotten Brains player
Every source for this film, with the one playing ticked and which ones carry extra languages.
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A film playing in the Rotten Brains player
Once it plays, the controls stay out of the way.

On Vumoo a dead server meant going back, picking the next one and hoping. Here every title is checked against several sources before you press play, and the player starts on the one that answers first.

If a source stalls, the player tries the next one and picks up where you were. You can still pick one yourself from the settings menu, with a note on which ones carry extra audio languages or subtitles.

Press play on Fight Club

05

Subtitles in dozens of languages

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The subtitle language list in the player
Dozens of languages, several versions of each.

Subtitles come from more than one source, so most titles have several versions per language. If the first one is out of sync with the video, the next one usually is not.

Many get lined up with the dialogue automatically when you pick them, and there is a delay slider for the rest.

Try the subtitles

06

Watch parties with friends anywhere

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A watch party with chat beside the film
Chat beside the picture. A friend joined from the link, no account needed.
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Emoji reactions floating over the film in a watch party
Reactions float over the film for everyone in the room.
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The invite a friend sees when they open a party link
What your friend sees when they open the link.
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The start-a-watch-party dialog
Start one from any movie or episode: private with a password, or public.

Start a party from any movie or episode and send the link. Everyone who opens it watches the same second of the same video, with a chat alongside, and the player keeps them in sync.

Any free account can start one. Friends can join and watch without an account at all.

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Questions

Is Vumoo coming back?

Nothing suggests it. The operator took it offline in March 2024 after ACE action, and vumoo.to still points to ACE.

Are vumoo.li and the other Vumoo sites official?

Nothing ties them to the original operator. Treat them as unrelated sites using a known name.

Does Rotten Brains have subtitles?

Yes. Subtitles come from more than one source in many languages, many are synced to the dialogue automatically, and there is a delay slider for the rest.