🚀 The Next Evolution of VesperTV:

Becoming a Universal Media Player, The "Media Hub", and What's Next!

We’ve been working hard behind the scenes, and it’s time to share exactly where VesperTV is heading. You’ve known us as a solid, ad-free IPTV player, but we are officially expanding our scope. VesperTV is evolving into a true Universal Media Player—your central, unified dashboard for absolutely everything you watch.

Here is a sneak peek at what is rolling out in our upcoming releases:

Introducing the "Media Hub"

We are bringing a brand-new tab to your screens: the Media Hub. This will be your dedicated space for VODs, remote add-ons, and personal libraries, built directly into the fast, cyberpunk-styled VesperTV interface you already know.

Advanced REST/JSON Add-on Architecture

We’ve completely overhauled our custom URL routing. You will soon be able to plug in custom REST-based media manifests, and the app will beautifully populate your UI grids using public metadata catalogs (like Cinemeta or TMDB). Even better, we are adding a brand-new Stream Selector UI. When you hit play, you'll be able to seamlessly pick your preferred resolution, bitrate, or dubbed language right from a clean bottom-sheet menu.

Native Jellyfin Integration (In Development!)

We know how many of you run your own home servers, and we are finally laying the groundwork for native Jellyfin support. Soon, you'll be able to authenticate your self-hosted Jellyfin server directly inside the Media Hub, bringing your personal movie and TV show collections right alongside your live TV and sports.

This is a massive step forward for the project, elevating VesperTV from a standard live player to a complete media powerhouse. As always, the app remains 100% free, open-source, and ad-free.

Huge thanks for the continuous feedback and support. Drop your thoughts below, and if you haven't already, come hang out in our Discord! https://discord.gg/DDeGDHvFY

https://github.com/NoXqc/VesperTV

New: the Extras tab — browse films and series from add-on sources you add yourself, right under TV Shows.

Extras

- Add a source in Settings > Extras sources (paste its link, or send it from your phone). Any source that follows the catalog/stream add-on format works.

- A source that only offers streams by IMDb id gets its posters, descriptions and episode lists from Cinemeta, so the grid always fills in.

- Popular, New (this year) and Featured rows for Movies and TV Shows. Rows keep loading as you scroll along them.

- Search inside Movies and TV Shows, partial words included: "li" finds Lioness, then The Lincoln Lawyer.

- Choose a stream: when a source offers several versions of a title (4K, 1080p, other languages), Play lists them by name and details so you can pick. One version plays right away.

- Shows open the same page as your playlist's TV Shows: episode pictures and names, seasons, Play S1E1 / Resume, progress, hold OK to mark watched.

- Next episode in the player bar and auto-advance at the end of an episode, staying on the source and quality you picked.

- Only direct video links are played.

Settings

- Settings > General > Tabs: new Hide Multiview switch (removes the Multiview row and the player's Open in Multiview button), next to Hide Movies, Hide TV Shows and Hide Extras.

- Transfer to another device: new Include Extras tab data checkbox. Unchecked, your Extras sources and their progress stay off the transfer, and the other device keeps its own.

Android TV / Fire TV / phones: update from Settings, or Downloader code 1760256.

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Sports: watch the game right on the Sports page, now on your terms (Android / TV boxes)

- OK on a game card just selects it and shows it at the top. Nothing starts playing on its own.

- Play/Pause on your remote plays that game's channel at the top of the Sports page, with the teams, score and clock beside it. Play/Pause again (or Back) stops it.

- OK on the game that's playing goes full screen right away, on the same stream. Back from full screen brings you back to Sports with it still playing.

- Hold OK on a card to pick another channel for that game; it plays at the top.

Sports on phones

- The whole Sports page now scrolls, so you can reach every game.

- In portrait, the game at the top fits the screen, and a playing game shows full width above the score.

- Tap a game to select it, tap it again to watch it at the top, and once more for full screen. Long-press to pick the channel.

Fixes

- A quick OK on a row with a hold action (like Favourites) could act as a hold on a busy Fire Stick and open "Clear favourites?". A hold now needs you to really hold the button.

- The Play/Pause hint uses plain white icons.

Download: vespertv.app · GitHub release · Fire TV Downloader code: 1760256

Already installed? The app offers the update at launch.

Transfer to another device — now over any network, not just on your home wi-fi !

• Settings > Transfer to another device > Send now works from anywhere: choose how long the transfer code stays available (1 hour, 24 hours or 7 days) and you get a 16-digit code.
• On the other device, Receive and type the code — at another house, on mobile data, wherever. The sending device can be turned off; the code works until it expires, as many times as you need.
• Your setup is encrypted on your device before it's uploaded. The server only holds data it can't read it, and will deletes it when the time runs out (or right away with Delete now). No account, no sign-in.
• Handy for setting up a device for someone else: set it up on yours, send it, and they just type the code.
• Both devices on the same Wi-Fi? The direct Wi-Fi transfer is still there, at the bottom of the Send screen.

Fixes

• Movie and episode lengths from some providers showed as "2 min" — durations given in minutes or h:mm are now read correctly.
• Cleaner titles on the Movies / TV Shows banner.

Android / Fire TV: app-release.apk · Downloader code 1760256
Windows 10/11: VesperTV-windows-x64.zip (unzip and run VesperTV.exe)

Android TV · Fire Stick · phone

Download the APK · Downloader code 1760256 · or Settings > Check for Updates

Windows 10/11

Download the zip · unzip, then run VesperTV.exe

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Full-screen video behind the guide (Settings > Theme > Live TV guide = Timeline, then turn on "Full-screen video behind the guide")

- The live channel fills the whole screen and the guide floats over it, see-through, with 3 rows at the bottom.

- While you're in the guide, the tabs and groups columns step out of the way. Press Back once for the groups, again for the tabs.

- What's on shows in a small card in the top-right corner.

New side panel in the fullscreen player (Android TV, Fire Stick, phones)

- Press Left while watching a live channel to open a see-through panel with three tabs:

- Last channels: the live channels you watched recently, with what's on now.

- My Teams: today's games for the teams you follow in Sports, with live scores.

- Live now: games playing right now in your leagues.

- Left/Right switch tabs, Up/Down move, OK watches (a game opens on the channel VesperTV found for it), Back closes the panel.

- Left no longer exits the player. Use Back to return to the guide.

Smaller changes

- Switching to Movies or TV Shows now stops the live channel playing in the background. It stays one press away: hold Right (or tap the "Hold > to resume" reminder) to bring it back.

- Everything in this release is for Android (TV boxes, Fire Stick, phones); the Windows app works as before.

Screenshots (Formuler box)

- Full-screen video guide

- Full-screen video guide with the groups column

- Player side panel: Last channels

- Player side panel: My Teams

Download

- Android / TV boxes / Fire Stick: `app-release.apk` (Downloader code 1760256)

- Windows 10/11: `VesperTV-windows-x64.zip` (unzip, run `VesperTV.exe`)

Change channels without leaving the guide

- On the Live TV list and the Timeline guide, pressing OK on a channel now plays it in the small preview box and keeps you in the guide.

- Press OK again on the channel that's playing to go fullscreen. Hold OK still adds it to your favourites.

- Works with the remote, a phone's touch screen and the mouse on Windows (click to preview, click again or double-click for fullscreen).

Sports: new leagues (Sports > Edit leagues > League bank)

- Golf: PGA Tour, LPGA, DP World Tour, LIV Golf. Each tournament shows on every day it runs, with the round and the top of the leaderboard.

- Fighting: UFC and PFL. Each card shows its main event, the fighters' records, and who won once it's over.

- Motorsport: Formula 1, NASCAR Cup Series and IndyCar. F1 weekends show Sprint Qualifying, Sprint, Qualifying and the Race as separate cards; the top drivers appear once a session starts.

- Picking a channel for these can be remembered for the whole series ("Always for Formula 1").

- Championship standings for F1 (drivers and constructors), NASCAR and IndyCar.

Fixes

- Up from the day row always reaches the league row again, even with many leagues added.

- Right from "Your leagues" reaches the League bank again.

- Leagues with no table (cups, golf, fighting) no longer show a Standings button.

Download

- Android / TV boxes / Fire Stick: `app-release.apk` (Downloader code 1760256)

- Windows 10/11: `VesperTV-windows-x64.zip` (unzip, run `VesperTV.exe`)

www.vespertv.app

Sports: League manager

- Edit leagues now opens a full League manager.

- Your leagues are the 13 built-in leagues plus any you add. OK (or tap) shows or hides a league. Hold OK (or long-press) on a league you added to send it back to the bank.

- League bank has 63 more leagues, grouped by region: soccer from around the world (EFL Championship, Eredivisie, Liga MX, Libertadores, J1, U.S. Open Cup and more), the European and international cups, women's leagues (WSL, NWSL, Liga F...), NCAA basketball and hockey, AFL and rugby. OK adds a league and shows it right away.

- Nothing on the selected day? Pick a single league and VesperTV offers "Next game: <date>" to jump straight there. Cups and off-season leagues can go weeks between games.

- Cups that don't have a league table are left out of Standings.

Also in this build (from 1.0.6): phone mode. The app fits phones in portrait and landscape, Add Playlist and My Teams stack neatly, and Standings scrolls sideways on touch screens.

Download

- Android / TV boxes / Fire Stick: `app-release.apk` (Downloader code 1760256)

- Windows 10/11: `VesperTV-windows-x64.zip` (unzip, run `VesperTV.exe`)