iPhone & iPad
Tivsy plays what you already have. Point it at your own playlist, panel or media server and get posters, a real programme guide, and every film picked up exactly where you left it.
Tivsy includes no channels, no playlists and no content of any kind. You bring your own.
What it is
Most apps in this corner of the store are built around one kind of source and treat everything else as an afterthought. Tivsy is built the other way round: it is a client for media you already own or already pay for, and it treats a playlist file, a provider panel and a media server at home as the same kind of thing.
No content is included, and none is provided. Tivsy ships empty. It cannot search for channels, it has no directory, and it does not connect anywhere until you add an address of your own.
What you connect to, and whether you have the right to, is between you and whoever you got it from.
IPTV
If your provider gave you an M3U link or a set of Xtream Codes details, that is what Tivsy is for. Paste the link exactly as you received it: when it is a panel export, Tivsy recognises it and uses the panel's own interface instead of the flat file — which is where posters, plots and a season-by-season episode tree come from. Live channels get a time-first programme guide; films and series get artwork and resume.
What Tivsy does not do is supply the subscription. It has no channel list of its own, no directory to search and no way to find a provider — and it never will, because that is the line between a player and a service.
Features
Every one of these exists because the alternative was worse in a way you would have noticed within a week.
Plenty of providers serve raw MPEG-TS that Apple's player cannot open. Tivsy tries the system player first for battery life, AirPlay and picture-in-picture, then hands off to its own without a word — and remembers which one worked.
Sorted by time rather than by channel, because “what is on now” is the question a guide is for. If your provider publishes listings for only part of its line-up, Tivsy says so instead of looking broken.
Films and episodes come back to the second, on the shelf you expect, with a progress bar that means something. Finished and half-watched look different.
Bigger artwork, a two-column film page, a settings screen that uses the width. Split View and Slide Over work, because an iPad app that cannot share the screen is a phone app in a bigger window.
Add more than one and Tivsy shows one at a time rather than merging them into a list with everything twice. Switching is one tap; favourites and history follow the list they belong to.
Most subscriptions allow a single stream. Tivsy reads that limit from your provider and refuses to open a second one behind your back — the fastest way to get an account banned is an app that speculates.
Privacy
There is no Tivsy account, because there is no Tivsy server. Your addresses, your credentials, your favourites and what you watched are on your phone — credentials in the iOS keychain, the rest in a local database. No analytics, no advertising identifier collection, no crash reporter, no profile.
Pricing
The whole player is free, including every source type and every screen. Premium exists to remove advertising — and there is never advertising over playback, paid or not.
Monthly
$1.99 per monthCancel whenever. No weekly plan, because a weekly plan is a way of charging four times as much quietly.
Yearly
$9.99 per yearWorks out at $0.83 a month.
Lifetime
$19.99 at launch, then $29.99One payment, every platform Tivsy reaches — including Apple TV when it arrives, through Universal Purchase.
Questions
No. It ships with nothing to watch and no way to find anything. You add an address you already have — a playlist file, a provider panel, or a media server on your own network.
Yes, and if that link happens to be a panel export, Tivsy notices and uses the panel's own interface instead — which is how you get posters, plots and a season-by-season episode tree that a flat playlist file does not carry.
Usually the opposite is the complaint, and the reason is the same: many providers serve a stream format Apple's player will not touch. Tivsy carries a second engine for exactly that. If something still will not play, the diagnostics screen tells you what the server actually returned.
Not in the first release. It is the next thing, and a Lifetime purchase already covers it: iPhone, iPad and Apple TV share one purchase through Universal Purchase.
Eleven: English, Turkish, Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese and Russian. It follows your device, and Arabic gets a properly mirrored layout rather than English boxes with Arabic text in them.
They go into the iOS keychain, which is the only place on the device designed to hold them, and they are never written to the database, a log or a backup in plain text. Nothing is sent anywhere except to the server you entered.