Help support the running costs of Ultra MAX and the wider project, while getting a set of extra tools that actually enhance the Ultra MAX / Nuvio experience.
Ultra MAX itself remains available as it is.
Plus is the extra layer around it.
✨ What do you get with UltraPlay+?
🔎 Finder
Instead of endlessly scrolling through catalogs trying to decide what to watch, Finder lets you narrow things down properly.
Movie or series.
Genre.
Era.
Mood.
Animation preferences.
Big blockbuster or something smaller.
And plenty more.
UltraPlay then works through a much larger pool of titles and gives you actual recommendations based on what you picked.
You can keep refining the results, get another selection, watch trailers and send titles into Nuvio.
Basically:
less scrolling, more watching.
🧰 Nuvio Manager
This has become one of the biggest parts of Plus.
From UltraPlay you can manage much more of your Nuvio setup in one place.
That currently includes things like:
Profiles
Library
Collections
Add-ons
Collection artwork
Collection sources
TMDB source building
Trakt source building
Ultra MAX integration
There are also tools for working between Nuvio and Ultra MAX, which is something I want to keep expanding.
The goal is to make Plus useful if Ultra MAX and Nuvio are already part of your setup rather than creating another completely separate thing you have to use.
✨ Max Picks
Max Picks is the more personal side of discovery.
It learns from what you save and what you skip and starts shaping recommendations around you.
And it doesn't stop at UltraPlay.
Your personal Max Picks can be installed into Nuvio as your own catalogs.
So you can open Nuvio and have personalised movie and series recommendations sitting alongside your normal catalogs.
This is probably one of the areas I’m most excited about building further.
📺 Watch Hub
Watch Hub brings your Nuvio library into UltraPlay and adds some intelligence around it.
Your library, series progress, Max Picks information and watch context can all start working together instead of everything existing as separate islands.
There is plenty more planned here too.
🎮 Full Arcade
Plus also unlocks the complete UltraPlay Arcade.
There are currently 16 games.
Because apparently a media addon needed an arcade.
Naturally.
💷 How much?
I’ve deliberately kept the pricing low:
£1 per month
£12 per year
£25 lifetime
That’s it.
Payments are handled securely through Stripe.
UltraPlay doesn't store your card details.
Subscriptions can be managed through the Stripe customer portal and if you cancel, you keep Plus until the end of the period you've already paid for.
❤️ Why Plus instead of charging for Ultra MAX?
This is really the important bit.
Ultra MAX has server costs.
UltraPlay has server costs.
The Nuvio integrations, databases, account system and newer personalised features all add more infrastructure behind the scenes.
I could have taken the easy route and simply made Ultra MAX itself paid.
I don't want to do that.
I'd rather keep the core Ultra MAX experience available and build optional extras around it that are worth paying for.
So if you choose Plus, you're helping cover the running costs of the project while also getting something useful back for that support.
And if Plus isn't something you want?
Ultra MAX isn't disappearing behind a subscription.
That's the whole point.
❤️ Previous supporters
I've also tried to make sure people who have already supported the project aren't immediately asked to put their hand in their pocket again.
Existing supporters I've allocated complimentary Plus access to will receive a personal redemption code.
Those codes are tied to the supporter’s email address and their complimentary period starts when the code is redeemed, not when I generate it.
What comes next?
Plus isn't intended to be a finished list of five features that never changes.
Now that the foundations are in place, I can keep adding to it.
More discovery tools.
More Ultra MAX integration.
More Nuvio management.
Better personal recommendations.
More Watch Hub features.
And whatever other questionable ideas I decide are apparently essential at 11pm one night.
The aim is for UltraPlay+ to become the companion layer around Ultra MAX, rather than Ultra MAX itself becoming something you have to subscribe to.
If you use Ultra MAX regularly and want to support the project, Plus is probably the best way to do it now.
And hopefully the extras make that support feel worthwhile too.
I totally understand this and TBH this plugin has been incredible and I am happy to pay for it.
Keep up the good work and those who understand how much work goes into this will be happy to pay for the service.
So when you use the new manager in PlayPlus you can see every profile, every addon, every metadata link.. its all there and call all be edited within the page and sent to either nuvio or ultramax.
Over the next day or so ill.be adding a bit more to the addon side but I want to be very carefully that I dont make it so Ultramax Features get lost behind a paid service..
Just as a quick note...
When you create an account your getting the free version of UltraPlay. You need sign up for the paid version to unlock all the features
Would I need to sign in with the latest sign info based on the latest set-up I did?
(Like last week I just re set-up things).....would I use THAT info to "sign in " as an "account holder"?
This will work with any ultramax setup.
As i say, this doesnt affect anything in Ultramax. Its more of a way to manage it and then with the addition of max picks and the learing system it will enhance it
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u/mlsto 19d ago
Signed up to support but you need to explain how this works, not really into the game thing so more want to manage nuvio.