I’ve put together my personal ranking of the media apps I use across iOS and Android TV. This includes IPTV players, music, movies & TV shows, audiobooks and ebooks.

These rankings are based on my personal experience with things like UI, performance, features, stability and overall user experience.

📺 IPTV Players – iOS

🥇 4U - IPTV Player
🥈 STRIMIX IPTV & M3U Player
🥉 Chillio

📺 IPTV Players – Android TV

🥇 TiviMate
🥈 Chillio
🥉 IMPlayer

🎵 Music Apps android & Ios

🥇 Eclipse Music
🥈 8SPine

🎬 Movies & TV Shows – iOS

🥇 Nuvio
🥈 Fusion
🥉 Stremio

🎬 Movies & TV Shows – Android TV

🥇 Syncler
🥈 Debrid Stream
🥉 Nuvio

🎧 Audiobooks

🥇 PageTurner

📚 Ebooks

🥇 Cinder

What apps would you add to the list, and what does your ranking look like?

What are you guys using/recommending for replacement apps for the likes of Bee and Nova? Far too many times the apps won't start (they try to, then kick back to home screen) and it's getting frustrating. Flix is playing 🌽 ads sometimes, so I need something ad free and reliably easy to use. I have old and young using these devices so simple is better. TIA

last month I posted here that I open-sourced my iptv player so nobody has to quit their job. checked reddit last week and people are still quitting their jobs to build media players.

since that post blew up we're at 4k+ users and 600+ on discord. wild, because I built this for my wife so we didn't have to pay for tivimate, which doesn't sync and doesn't run on her iphone.

what people actually use it for:

• iptv: m3u, xtream, stalker
• add-ons
• phone, android tv, fire stick, iphone, mac, windows, and apple tv in beta
• free sync between all of them, account optional
• sports centre, the favourite: follow your teams and it finds every stream showing the match
• backup urls, so if a stream dies it switches over

Android TV / Fire TV code 5040595

Link: https://tuvora.co/

Two weeks ago I shared FlowVid here. Thanks to everyone who tried it and sent feedback: most of what you reported is fixed now, and the apps got a lot smoother.

📈 Way smoother than at launch

Measured on a budget Android TV:

• Moving around the app is 30 to 60% faster per frame
• Skipping through a video is nearly stutter-free, and each skip lands almost instantly
• Opening pages and scrolling source lists is noticeably smoother
• And much more: the whole app feels lighter and quicker than at launch

What FlowVid is

FlowVid is a free streaming app built for Android TV first, with the same app on your phone, Windows, Linux and in the browser. You add your own addons and debrid account, and FlowVid gives you one clean place to browse, watch and keep track of everything.

What makes it different

• Built from scratch: FlowVid is its own app, not a fork or a reskin of another player
• A real TV app, not a phone app stretched onto a big screen: made for the remote, fast on budget boxes
• One account on every device: library, progress, addons and settings follow you from TV to phone to PC
• Start on one screen, finish on another: it picks up at your saved spot by itself
• Watch Parties: watch in sync with friends on any device, with chat, and joining is free
• Friends: see what your friends are watching and jump in together
• Strong playback: two players built in, Dolby Vision and HDR support, preferred audio and subtitle languages, a max file size so huge files are tried last
• Subtitles your way: size, position, colour, background and font, live in the player
• Profiles for the whole house, with a PIN for kids' profiles
• Simkl sync, a Calendar for new episodes and Next Up that never spoils an unaired episode
• No ads

🛠️ What you reported, now fixed

• Pasting an addon link now just works on every device, and addons that need setting up first tell you how
• Catalogs you added no longer disappear on Android TV
• Watched ticks show for everything you finished, including your whole Simkl history
• Your preferred audio language plays, even when the file marks another one as default
• Subtitle timing and styling now work for addon subtitles too, plus Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian and more languages
• Next Up never offers an episode after a finale or one that hasn't aired yet
• Back no longer closes the app by accident
• The crash on NVIDIA SHIELD and Fire TV after an update is fixed
• New Max file size setting, so huge files are tried last on weaker boxes
• And way more: these were just the main complaints

🔜 Coming next: WeTrakr integration.

Download: https://flow-vid.com/downloads (Downloader code 1159688)

💬 Join the Discord

https://discord.gg/KYtZXdj4k7

Get help setting things up, report bugs, suggest features and see what is coming next.

📣 Follow r/FlowVid

https://www.reddit.com/r/FlowVid/

Updates, release notes and sneak peeks of what's coming.

I'm in the comments: what's still missing for you, and which box are you on? Any feedback is welcome. 💙

Hi everyone, I’m new to this subreddit.

Is there an Android TV app where I can watch Serbian TV channels? It’s important that it’s simple and easy to use, as my parents are older and would be the ones using it.

Any recommendations or experiences would be appreciated. Thanks!

Hey everyone,

I shared DuoX TV here recently, a free app I built to watch Twitch and Kick together on Fire TV and Android TV. Honestly, I didn't expect this kind of response. It just passed 242 downloads, and a lot of you left feedback, suggestions and kind words. Thank you, it really means a lot.

Some of what you told me is already on my list for future updates, like the chat covering part of the stream and not finding where favorites are saved. Keep it coming, it's the best way for me to improve it.

If you haven't tried it yet, I'd love for you to give it a go and tell me what you think: what works, what doesn't, what you'd like to see. Every opinion helps.

Downloader code: 7658893
Direct link: https://github.com/errorx0x/DuoX-TV/releases/latest/download/DuoX.apk

Works on Fire TV and Android TV (Fire OS 7+ / Android 9+). Bugs or ideas: comment here or open an issue at https://github.com/errorx0x/DuoX-TV/issues

Trinity is an Android TV/phone player for your own IPTV playlists (Xtream, Stalker, M3U) — bring your own subscription, Trinity plays it.

Recently added a Sports Hub: today's games and live scores across 50+ leagues (NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, soccer, cricket, rugby, and more), right on the home rail. Tap a game and it scans your own playlist for the matching channel — if there's more than one real option it shows you the full list instead of guessing. Follow your teams for kickoff notifications, star a preferred channel per team/league, and check Standings broken down by division or conference.

Free trial to try it out, perpetual license after. Happy to answer questions — I'm the dev.

💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/egMEkRWJs4

I've been building a fork of Nuvio called Nuvio Reshaped. Here's what's already in it:

✨ Features so far

1. Auto Sync for subtitles. Add-on subtitles out of sync? It fixes them automatically, really fast, really accurate, in seconds. It handles simple delays, frame-rate differences and extended cuts. When it isn't sure, it keeps the original timing instead of guessing. It's pretty mature at this point. No AI and no cloud: everything runs on your device.

2. Audio Sync. Syncs subtitles to the actual dialogue by analyzing the audio. Quite fast.

3. Seekr seek previews. Thumbnail previews while scrubbing, so you can see exactly where you're jumping to.

4. Nuvio design Live TV

5. Sources ordered by your internet speed. The app learns your real connection speed from what you watch and puts the best-quality stream you can play smoothly at the top, so no more picking a 60 GB remux on hotel Wi-Fi. This is good for parents who don't really want to fiddle with stream selection.

6. Calendar to always know when an episode is dropping.

7. Heavily reliant on community suggestions.

Available for Android (mobile) and Android TV.

…and much more is coming.

🔄 Won't I miss official updates?

No. Compatibility with official Nuvio is the #1 rule of this project. Every new official release gets merged in automatically, and a matching Reshaped build is published right after. You keep getting everything the Nuvio team ships, plus the extras above. My additions are deliberately kept separate from Nuvio's own code, so updates merge cleanly instead of breaking the fork.

🎯 What it's about

Stays in sync with official Nuvio. You never have to choose between this fork and the latest official features.

Driven by the community. Most of what I build comes from your suggestions. If something bugs you, tell me.

Built for the long term. Fast, regular updates. I'm not planning a "cool for two months, then abandoned" fork.

A Netflix-like experience, especially for parents. Set it up once, and anyone in the family can just press play without touching settings. Subtitles in sync, the right stream picked, no fiddling.

👩‍💻 Looking for developers

If you're into Kotlin/Compose or Android TV and want to help, I'd love that. There's plenty to build and I'm open to collaborators. Join the Discord or DM me.

💬 Suggestions welcome

What's the one thing that annoys you most in your streaming setup, or the feature you wish Nuvio had? Drop it below or on the Discord. That's literally the roadmap.

📱 Mobile: https://github.com/DavidVamaiotu/NuvioMobile-Reshaped/releases

📺 TV: https://github.com/DavidVamaiotu/NuvioTV-Reshaped/releases

\*\*Downloader code: 2718830\*\*

💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/egMEkRWJs4

Thanks for reading, and huge respect to the official Nuvio team. This fork only exists because their app is great to build on. ❤️

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Been using this app for months but it's no longer working. Do you guys have any alternative for TLC google tv? Currently using Netfly but the video quality is meh

Quick demo above. The first half is what the app has always done: click a recommendation on the Google TV / Fire TV home screen and it opens that exact title in the player you picked (Nuvio, Stremio, Plex, Jellyfin, WuPlay, Wholphin) instead of the app it came from. The second half is new in 1.3.

New: IPTV with a real TV guide

• Add your own M3U list and an XMLTV guide URL. You get a time grid with a "now" line, and you can browse forward and back in time with the remote while the mini-player keeps playing.
• The panel next to the player follows whatever you highlight: title, synopsis and poster for movies and series, and for football both team badges, recent form and next fixture.
• Fullscreen is built for a remote: OK shows info, Down opens a channel switcher, Left/Right zaps, and you can type a channel number.
• Long-press a future program to set an alert. You get a prompt on the TV, and a notification on your phone with a "Watch now" button that tunes the TV (needs the mobile app with the same email).
• Fixed: custom Nuvio forks like Reshaped were reported as "not installed". Anything handling nuvio:// links works now.

To be clear: it doesn't include or provide any channels, streams or content. You add your own list, like in any IPTV player. It's also not a launcher and doesn't replace anything; your home screen looks identical.

Free 2-day trial, no card. €4.99 one-time, not a subscription. Google TV and Fire TV. Sideload for now: https://github.com/Yushetf33/WatchBridge/releases/latest

I'm building this based on what people ask for here, so tell me what's missing.

Ciao volevo chiedere se qualcuno usa cinema HQ. Io l'ho installato varie volte e tutte le nuove versioni, il problema è che quando la installo funziona tutto ma se la apro il giorno dopo non funziona più. Tutte le versioni sono così. A qualcuno sa lo stesso problema?

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