# Cobi Player — IPTV & M3U Xtream Player

> IPTV & M3U Xtream Player (iPhone/iPad app by Antonio Parenti.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cobi-player/id6793583148 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Antonio Parenti](https://appshunter.io/developer/6793583150)
- Category: Entertainment, Music
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 44 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, Dutch, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese and 5 more
- Released: 2026-08-29
- Data updated: 2026-10-03
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cobi-player/id6793583148/reviews.md

## What is Cobi Player?

Cobi Player is a fast, native media player for YOUR OWN IPTV or M3U service. The app does not contain, provide, host or sell any channels, streams, movies or subscriptions. You connect your own service using an Xtream Codes login or an M3U playlist.

WHY COBI PLAYER
Built because other players are slow and cannot filter by country. Cobi Player loads categories on demand instead of pulling tens of thousands of entries at once, so browsing stays instant even on huge playlists. And when a provider stream stalls, the player notices and reconnects on its own instead of leaving you on a frozen picture.

XTREAM OR M3U
An Xtream Codes login gives you everything your provider offers: live TV, movies, series, the programme guide and catch-up. With an M3U playlist every entry appears as a live channel in its own group - that is how the playlist format works, not a limit of the app.

FEATURES
- Xtream Codes login (live TV, movies, series, EPG, catch-up) OR M3U playlist (live channels, URL or file)
- Multiple profiles for several accounts
- Filter by country - order in huge channel lists
- Live TV with EPG (now and next), catch-up and timeshift; the Apple TV guide also restarts the programme running right now
- Movies and series with posters, ratings, plot and trailers
- Pick the audio and subtitle track while watching
- Favourites in folders (Pro) - channels, films and shows together
- Customize your lists (Pro) - hide the countries, categories and channels you never watch, pin your favourites to the top
- Sleep timer, speed 0.5x-2x and audio/subtitle sync (Pro)
- Move your account to the Apple TV with an 8-digit code (Pro), device to device over your own network, instead of typing it with the remote
- Sync across devices (Pro) - favourites, folders, history, resume positions, your customised lists and settings stay the same on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV, through your own iCloud
- Resume where you left off, plus a recents list
- Fast search across section, country and category
- Picture in Picture and background audio (iPhone and iPad)
- Decide how often the catalogue refreshes, from 6 hours to manual only
- Adult categories hidden by default, behind an 18+ confirmation and a PIN you set, with three auto-lock modes
- 15 languages, switchable in the app
- Preview mode with freely licensed demo streams, no account needed

PREVIEW MODE
No service yet? Tap "Watch Preview Without a Server" on the welcome screen. It plays openly licensed test content (Blender Open Movies, CC-BY), so you can explore the app first.

FREE, WITH AN OPTIONAL UPGRADE
Everything you need for watching is free: live TV, movies, series, EPG, catch-up, search, resume, multiple profiles, marking favourites and choosing the audio or subtitle track. The free version shows ads.

Cobi Player Pro is a single in-app purchase - no subscription, no account. It removes all ads permanently and unlocks four things: folders for your favourites, customizing your lists, the player extras (sleep timer, speed and audio/subtitle sync), and keeping all of that in sync across your devices. Undoing never costs anything: showing hidden items again, resetting, turning sync off and deleting what it stored all work without the purchase. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Apple TV, and more Pro features are coming.

PRIVACY
No account and no analytics of our own - and you choose whether the ads may be personalised. Your credentials are stored only on your device in the iOS Keychain and are sent solely to the server you configure. The device sync runs through your OWN iCloud - we never see it, and it never carries your password.

IMPORTANT
Cobi Player is a player only. No subscriptions, channels or content are offered or sold. You need your own legal service from a third-party provider. The provider and the user alone are responsible for the content and its legality.

Adult categories are hidden by default and only appear after an age confirmation and PIN entry.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cobi Player Pro | $29.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.2 — 2026-09-08

Subtitles now appear - and films can be scrubbed.

Two faults in the playback engine are fixed. Both were completely silent - no crash, no error message - which is why they lasted as long as they did.

SUBTITLES did not appear on iPhone, iPad or Mac at all, whatever the language or format; on Apple TV only plain tracks worked, and styled ones stayed invisible. Two separate faults were behind that. The engine had been built without a font provider, so styled subtitles were decoded and then simply not drawn - on every device. And on iPhone, iPad and Mac the subtitle layer was never created in the first place, which took the rest with it. Both are fixed. They still do not appear in Picture in Picture: that small window mirrors the video layer only.

SEEKING inside most films froze the picture for a few seconds and then threw the film back to the start. Every jump sent the sound track to the beginning of the file, and playback then crawled back towards your position. Dragging the slider, tapping +10s and resuming a film all land straight away now. And if a film does stall, it reconnects where it stopped instead of starting over.

Also in this release:
- The bar at the bottom is no longer a black strip when no ad was delivered, and an ad already on screen is no longer thrown away every time you start a video.
- Apple TV: the audio track list is always shown, repeated ten-second skips add up correctly, search finds names written with capitals or accents, and results are no longer squeezed into three lines.
- A purchase that fails now says so instead of doing nothing.
- A wrong or expired transfer code is reported at once instead of after a long wait.

Cobi Player Pro removes all advertising.

### 1.1 — 2026-09-04

Ads now follow your own choice.

Version 1.0 always requested generic ads, even from people who had just agreed to personalized ones - your answer was collected and then ignored. That is fixed. This version asks once whether tracking is allowed, and then respects what you picked. Decline, or ignore the prompt, and nothing about the app changes: ads simply stay non-personalized, exactly as before.

Also in this release:
- The banner is larger.
- The full-screen ad before a video appears at most every 30 minutes, and after every fifth start with at least five minutes in between.
- Ads no longer stay blank after a failed load.

Cobi Player Pro removes all advertising - and with it both prompts.

### 1.0 — 2026-08-29

No release notes.

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