TTV

No. TTV is a media player only. It does not include, sell or recommend any channels, playlists, subscriptions or providers. To watch, you need a playlist or a login of your own from a provider you have chosen, or your own Jellyfin, Emby or Plex server.

From the provider you subscribe to — they send an M3U link or an Xtream Codes login (server, user name and password). We do not sell playlists and cannot recommend a provider. If you run Jellyfin, Emby or Plex at home, your own server works as a source too.

TTV is a player, like a video app on a computer: it plays what you point it at and adds nothing of its own. Use it with content you have the right to watch. What a playlist contains is a matter between you and the provider who supplied it.

Add your playlist on the iPhone first. Then connect the phone to the car — with a cable or wirelessly — and open TTV on the car’s screen. Favourites, Channels, Recents and Playlists are there as tabs; tap a channel to play it, and use the steering-wheel buttons to change channel.

Yes, while the car is parked. TTV plays the picture on the car’s display when the car is stationary — at a charger, in a car park, on a break — and when the car moves off, the picture stops and the sound carries on.

No. Video in the car is for passengers and for parked cars only, and TTV stops the picture when the car is moving. Never watch video while driving, and always follow the traffic laws where you are.

Yes. Start mirroring from TTV and the iPhone’s screen appears on the car’s display, and it stops when you end it. The same rule applies as for TTV’s own video: the car has to be parked.

Yes. TTV’s screen mirroring is not limited to TTV: whatever is on the iPhone’s screen — another video app, a browser — goes to the car display or the TV, so apps that never added a cast button can still reach a bigger screen.

Put the phone on the same Wi-Fi as the Chromecast, tap the Cast button in TTV’s toolbar or in the player, and choose the TV. The phone then works as a remote, with play, pause and channel up and down. If a channel will not start, the provider may be blocking Chromecast playback on their side — TTV tells you when that happens, and AirPlay usually still works.

Yes. Send any channel, film or episode to an Apple TV, an AirPlay TV or a car display that supports AirPlay, from the player’s AirPlay button.

Yes, a full one for the Siri Remote: Live Now, Favourites and Continue Watching on Home, Live TV by category, films, series and search. Add your Xtream Codes login or M3U link on the Apple TV itself, or sign in to your Jellyfin, Emby or Plex server there.

Choose Add Playlist, then Xtream Codes, and enter the server address, user name and password your provider sent. If they sent a single get.php link instead, paste it and the three fields fill themselves in.

Yes, from a link or a file. Paste the address, or pick an .m3u or .m3u8 file from Files. TTV sorts the list into live channels, films and series, reads every guide the playlist names, and keeps catch-up details where the list has them.

Yes. It is tested with a 700,000-row playlist — about 30,000 channels, 98,000 films and 20,000 series — and imports it whole. The last copy of each playlist is kept on the device, so the app opens on it straight away and refreshes in the background.

An Xtream Codes login brings its guide with it, and an M3U playlist that names a guide (x-tvg-url) has it read automatically. You can also add an XMLTV guide address yourself; compressed .gz guides work too.

Yes, on channels whose provider keeps an archive. From the guide, restart a programme that is under way or play one that has already aired. When a live stream keeps a window behind it, you can also pause and rewind live TV and return with Go Live.

Yes. Download a film, an episode or a whole season in one tap, pause and resume, and watch with no connection at all. Live channels are watched live and are not downloaded.

Yes, as full sources. Sign in with a password, Quick Connect or a Plex PIN; your libraries appear as films and series, the server’s Continue Watching and Next Up show on Home, and you can download, cast and mark titles as watched.

No, deliberately. TTV works with Xtream Codes logins, M3U and M3U8 playlists, XMLTV guides and Jellyfin, Emby and Plex servers.

Yes. Add as many as you have, give each a symbol and a colour, and switch from the toolbar — or from the Playlists tab in CarPlay.

Yes. Lock the whole app with a passcode and Face ID, set a separate parental PIN, and keep adult categories hidden. The lock applies on the Apple Watch too.

Passwords and server sign-ins are stored only in the iOS Keychain on your device, and an M3U link and the playlist it downloads stay in the app’s own storage there. Streams travel straight from your provider or your server to your device — or to the TV, when you cast. We never receive your playlist, your login or what you watch.

Yes. The watch shows what is playing with play, pause and channel up and down, now and next on your favourite channels, what is live now, and your downloads.

Yes. TTV runs on the Mac as well as on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Apple Watch, and one App Store listing covers them all.

Most often the reason is on the provider’s side: an expired account (Home says so when it is), more devices watching at once than the subscription allows, or a channel that is down. If it plays on the phone but not on a Chromecast, the provider is blocking Chromecast playback; try AirPlay. If none of that fits, write to us — never include your password.

No. There is nothing to sign up for. Your playlists and settings live on your device, and the only logins involved are the ones your provider or your own server gave you.

TTV is available in 40 languages, from English, Türkçe, Deutsch and Español to العربية, 日本語 and 简体中文.

It is on the way. Versions for Android phones, Android TV and Google TV are planned, and will be listed here when they reach Google Play.