# CurioPlay: IPTV Home Cinema — Live TV player · M3U & Xtream

> Live TV player · M3U & Xtream (iPhone/iPad app by Dhafer LAKHDHAR.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/curioplay-iptv-home-cinema/id6762512022 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Dhafer LAKHDHAR](https://appshunter.io/developer/1894475017)
- Category: Entertainment
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 9+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 401 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, French (France)
- Released: 2026-09-05
- Data updated: 2026-10-25

## What is CurioPlay?

Your IPTV subscription deserves better than a list of twenty thousand names.

CurioPlay takes the playlist your provider gave you and turns it into a home cinema: live channels with a real TV guide, films with posters and cast, series with seasons and episodes — all organised for you, automatically. On iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV, with one purchase and one library.

WHY PEOPLE SWITCH TO CURIOPLAY
• A design that belongs on your Apple devices. Big artwork, smooth scrolling, a remote-friendly Apple TV app, no clutter. No ads, ever.
• It understands your library. Ask Curio finds something to watch when you ask in your own words — "something quiet and beautiful for tonight" — privately, on your device.
• A guide you actually use. See what's on now and next, jump back to a programme you missed, record what you're watching.
• Built for the whole family. Kids Mode locks the app to what you approve, behind a PIN only you know.
• Arabic done right. Right-to-left titles, search and metadata that simply work — not an afterthought.

LIVE TV
• Instant zapping, a full programme guide, what's on now and next
• Catch-up: replay past programmes straight from the guide (Pro)
• Record what you're watching, or schedule a recording from the guide (Pro)
• Pin the groups you love, hide the ones you never watch

MOVIES & SERIES
• Posters, cast and descriptions; seasons and episodes in order
• Trending this week and "Curated for you", picked from your own library
• Up Next, favourites and Continue Watching, on every device with iCloud sync (Pro)
• Downloads for offline viewing (Pro)

YOUR WAY
• Ask Curio: describe a mood, get a shortlist — private, on your device
• Search everything, straight from the Home Screen with Spotlight
• Siri and Shortcuts: play a channel or a show by voice
• Kids Mode with a PIN only you know
• Arabic-first: right-to-left done right

ON EVERY SCREEN
• Picture in Picture and AirPlay
• Watch together over FaceTime with SharePlay
• Home Screen widgets and a Lock Screen player card
• One purchase for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV — with a Top Shelf on Apple TV

TRY IT IN TEN SECONDS
No provider yet? Tap "Explore with Sample Library" and browse, search and play a small set of Creative Commons films to see how everything works.

FREE, FOR REAL
The complete player — live TV, guide, movies, series, search and Kids Mode — is free with one playlist. No ads, no account, no tracking.

CURIOPLAY PRO
For households with more than one provider: all your playlists in one place, iCloud sync of history, favourites and resume across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV, plus catch-up, recording and downloads. Monthly, yearly with a 7-day free trial, or once for a lifetime. One purchase covers all your Apple devices.

WHAT CURIOPLAY IS NOT
CurioPlay is a player. It contains no channels, streams or content and does not help you find any. You connect the playlist (M3U link or Xtream login) that your own IPTV provider gave you.

Privacy: no account, no tracking, no ads. Your playlists and viewing stay on your device — and in your own iCloud, if you turn sync on.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://geforce42376.github.io/curioplay-legal/privacy.html

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| CurioPlay Pro | $1.99 | per month |
| CurioPlay Pro | $17.99 | per year |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| CurioPlay Pro — Lifetime | $69.99 | one-time |


## Is CurioPlay safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess CurioPlay.

## Is CurioPlay legit?

CurioPlay: IPTV Home Cinema has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for CurioPlay is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.0.6 — 2026-10-18

• iPhone Duo: stand the phone half-open on a table while you watch, and the picture moves to the top half with a remote below it. Play and pause, change channel or skip in a film, and open tabs such as Info, Guide and Browse; the Guide shows what is on now, next and later on every channel of the group, and Search keeps the picture playing above the keyboard.
• iPhone Duo, held any other way: flat, open wide or closed, the same remote now sits over the picture, and held like a book, the picture takes one page and the remote the other. For films, skip 10 seconds, change the speed, and choose audio and subtitles. On the table the lower half glows softly in the picture's colours; Settings › Player can keep it black, keep the player full screen or keep the player controls visible. Open wide, the app's tabs (Home, Channels, Search …) move to a column at the side, with the mini player at its foot.
• Ask Curio finds a channel from part of its name, even a broadcaster's name in it, forgives a typo, and when no channel has that exact name it can list the closest ones and says so. A playlist you add now reaches Search, Ask Curio and Siri without a refresh or a relaunch, and a deleted one leaves them shortly after.
• Film pages show the cast and director the first time you open them when CurioPlay is sure of the match (the title and year agree, or you picked it with Fix Match), with photos where there are some. A match you fix now stays fixed and updates at once, and a film no longer picks up a TV channel's details. TV guide: with two or more playlists that each have a guide, every channel shows its own playlist's programmes in the player, on Home, in the TV Guide and in the widget, and guides always download fresh.
• Your provider: if it gives you a new server or login, change the server, username and password in Edit Source & EPG…, and after you replace a playlist, your favourites come back with their channels. A channel your provider no longer lists leaves Home, Siri, Spotlight and the widget; in your favourites and channel lists it is marked "No longer in your playlist" instead of failing to play, and it comes back if your provider lists it again. A film keeps one connection to your provider while you skip around in it, and closing it ends that connection. Opening a series no longer sends your provider a request for every episode. CurioPlay now paces its requests to your provider and no longer keeps retrying a login your provider refused. Also: very large libraries use far less memory; a film you are downloading now finishes and appears in Downloads even if iOS closes CurioPlay in the background, and downloads waiting their turn are kept; channel groups named 24/7 stay in Channels even when their name also says VOD, Movies or Cinema (after the next refresh); Top 10 Channels shows live channels only; counts read "1 result", not "1 results"; stability fixes. The Lock Screen shows the live channel's own name. On the Lock Screen, skipping in a film now starts from where you are.

### 1.0.5 — 2026-10-10

• Ask Curio understands whole requests: a person, genre, country, language, year or number in one ask, such as "action films with Tom Cruise", "top 3 Brad Pitt films", "best series after 2020" or "British channels in English". It answers from your library, lists a person's films newest first, says when your library holds fewer than you asked, forgives a slip in a name or title, and takes follow-ups such as "only after 2016". Ask in English, French, German or Arabic; answers come in a few seconds.
• Search stays fast in very large playlists (300,000 entries and more), for words inside names and for typos, and so do the guide and film results of the Search tab. Search keeps working while your library updates, and the TV guide's search finds every word in any order ("bein 2" finds "beIN Sports 2").
• TV guide: every playlist's guide now updates on its own, not only the first one, and Settings › TV Guide shows one row per guide with its own status and Update Now. Programmes on air now show their titles in the guide.
• Playback: a provider outage or a reconnect no longer dims a working channel, and a live channel in the VLC player that freezes as it opens now reconnects by itself. When your provider refuses one channel, CurioPlay says so instead of "Subscription expired". Siri plays a title only when every word you said is in its name; otherwise it asks.
• Also: film details (synopsis, genres, cast) now load from your provider by default, on Wi-Fi and never during playback; CurioPlay is smoother in large libraries; on iPad, the Add Playlist fields stay visible above the keyboard bar; Catch-up's Earlier Today row no longer shows a programme twice.

### 1.0.4 — 2026-09-28

• CurioPlay is now in French and Arabic when your iPhone or iPad uses one of these languages.
• Picture size: tap the picture, then the new picture-size button, to choose Fit, Fill or Stretch, plus 16:9 and 4:3 on channels that play in the VLC player. CurioPlay remembers the choice for each channel, and channels with an unusual picture shape no longer look squeezed.
• Playlists: updates no longer run while you use the app. When one is due, CurioPlay asks at a quiet moment (Update Now or Later), and an update finishes faster when little has changed; choose Ask First or Manually in Settings › Playlist Updates. Adding an Xtream playlist is easier: spaces around what you paste are ignored, a refused login now says why, and a server address pasted as an M3U link offers to switch to Xtream Codes.
• Playback: live channels in the VLC player keep playing through an uneven connection, reconnect by themselves without a frozen picture, and come back from Picture in Picture without pausing. A film picks up at the same second after you lock the screen, and a brief connection drop no longer cuts it short. The new "Always show subtitles" setting picks the best subtitle track, your provider's first, otherwise subtitles generated on iOS 27 (English). CurioPlay also opens and starts playing faster.
• Fixes: the system no longer closes CurioPlay when you leave it while it updates your library; ready for iPhone Duo (channels in the VLC player no longer show a black picture when the phone is open, and the series page fits shorter screens); the player's buttons now appear and hide with its controls, and the recording badge no longer covers play/pause; Continue Watching no longer loses recent films; catch-up downloads carry on after you reopen the app and can be cancelled; playlists added with an Xtream login now update; an expired account can no longer empty your library; Parental Controls treat X-rated titles as adult and apply more age ratings; Ask Curio now knows each title's synopsis, genres and cast.

### 1.0.3 — 2026-09-20

• Continue Watching picks up exactly where you left off.
• Subtitles on iOS 27: films, series and live channels can show subtitles generated on your device (English).
• Home Screen widgets: Continue Watching, Trending, New and For You — pick the section on the widget itself.
• A provider that is offline is reported right away, with Retry, instead of a spinner.
• Playback keeps working when your provider moves to a new server address.

### 1.0.2 — 2026-09-16

• Fixed: playlists from providers that close the connection early no longer fail to add or update with “The network connection was lost”.
• Ready for tvOS 27.
• Smaller fixes and polish.

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