# cipherStream — Stream your own media server

> Stream your own media server (iPhone/iPad app by IotSoftworks.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cipherstream/id6813863906 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [IotSoftworks](https://appshunter.io/developer/6813863908)
- Category: Entertainment, Photo & Video
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 9+
- Requires: iOS 16.0 · 35 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-29
- Data updated: 2026-10-08
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cipherstream/id6813863906/reviews.md

## What is cipherStream?

cipherStream is the iPhone and iPad app for a cipherStream server: the media server you run yourself, on your own computer or NAS, for your own films, series and music.

Sign in with the account your server's owner gave you and your library is there: posters, cast, ratings, seasons and episodes, with Continue Watching and favourites that follow you between your phone, your television and your browser.

• Your originals, played as they are. The app plays the files on your server directly, without the server converting them: HEVC and H.264 video (AV1 on devices that decode it), with AAC, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, FLAC and MP3 audio. DTS, TrueHD, Opus and Vorbis soundtracks are converted on your iPhone or iPad as they play.
• Picture in Picture, and AirPlay to an Apple TV.
• Blu-ray image subtitles, as well as the subtitles your server provides.
• Encrypted end to end. Every request and every byte of video is encrypted by the app itself, on top of HTTPS.
• Audio tracks and subtitles. Switch a title's language while it plays.
• Music. Albums, artists, songs, folders and playlists from your server's music library.
• Watch parties. Watch in step with other people on the same server, with live chat.
• Your phone as a remote. Drive a television signed in to the same account, or move what you are watching to it at the same moment.
• Quiz night. Play the trivia game on your television from your phone.
• More than one server. Keep a friend's server beside your own and switch between them, or combine their libraries into one.

Requires a cipherStream server. The app contains no media of its own; everything you watch comes from the server you choose.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.0.237 — 2026-10-07

What's new in cipherStream 1.0.237:

- Subtitles found online when a title has none, once your server turns it on.
- Theme music for TV series on their title pages.
- TV search opens beside the keyboard, and Back clears it.
- Set the TV's subtitle size, colour and position from your phone.
- Movie collections across a combined library, which now recovers by itself when a server comes back.
- Many fixes, including a much faster retry when a server stops answering.

### 1.0.234 — 2026-10-05

What's new in cipherStream 1.0.234:

- A fresh look on phones, TVs and the web: a bottom bar and Search tab on phones, cinematic title pages, and a simpler TV home with filters in one place.
- Every film shows its running time, and subtitles are the same size on every title.
- Zoom trims baked-in black bars on more titles.
- The library opens on Recently added by default.
- Voice search has been removed.
- Many fixes to TV navigation and playback.

### 1.0.230 — 2026-10-02

What's new in cipherStream 1.0.230:

- Household profiles: several people can share one device, each with their own account, face or photo, and an optional PIN.
- A new party game, WordFlash. Invite players from the Online now list, and games remember your name and face.
- Downloads keep going in the background and save subtitles for offline viewing.
- Trailers and extras on title pages, plus movie collections, labels and video playlists.
- A Still watching prompt, an optional rewind when you resume, and a warning on slow connections.
- Many fixes to playback, downloads, watch parties and games.

### 1.0.227 — 2026-10-01

What's new in cipherStream 1.0.227:

- Household profiles: several people can share one device, each with their own account, face or photo, and an optional PIN.
- Two new party games, WordFlash and Mission: Almost Possible. Invite players from the Online now list, and games remember your name and face.
- Downloads keep going in the background and save subtitles for offline viewing.
- Trailers and extras on title pages, plus movie collections, labels and video playlists.
- A Still watching prompt, an optional rewind when you resume, and a warning on slow connections.
- Many fixes to playback, downloads, watch parties and games.

### 1.0 — 2026-09-30

No release notes.

## Related topics

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