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Consolidate your media from Plex, Jellyfin, and IPTV into a single, organized library. Enjoy live TV with a comprehensive guide, seamless playback of high-bitrate content, and personalized recommendations across all your Apple devices.
1.10.0
November 3, 2026
NEW • Settings › Content brings your sources together: Live TV by country, category and channel, film and series categories, and libraries, each with a Show switch • Smart Start: after you add an IPTV source, your countries' categories are on and films and series are off • A channel carried in several qualities, or by more than one source, is now one channel that plays the best feed and moves to the next if it fails • Rules for All Sources set what new categories and libraries do on every source • Content Access locks a source, country, category, library or single channel • Long-press a channel or title for Hide, Favorite, Lock and Manage • On Apple TV, Edit from Phone opens a source on your phone or computer • Show Subtitles in Settings › Subtitles & Audio: Automatic turns subtitles on when the audio isn't in your language • When a title has several versions, pick one under Play From before you play. A show keeps your pick for every episode • A film or show a panel lists on several shelves, like “New Movies” and “New Movies 4K”, is one title, with each copy under Play From, and opens on the copy in your language • Trailers adds YouTube trailers from TVDB, Jellyfin and Xtream • The guide keeps up to a week of your source's schedule, with a day picker • Night Mode and Dialogue Boost now work on Aether too CHANGED • On Apple TV, the guide moves through time as you move along a row • The guide lists your countries' channels first, and idle event and pay-per-view channels last • Patterns that pinned channels to the top are gone. The channels they matched are now in your favorites • Libraries you turn off are no longer synced • On Apple TV, closing the player returns to the page you played from • Playback Engine has Auto, the new default: Spectati for Live TV, Aether for movies and shows • Home's suggestions follow your taste more closely FASTER • On Apple TV, Search keeps up as you type, results for a short search no longer stall, and Library scrolls smoothly FIXED • On Apple TV, Play/Pause resumes a paused title instead of pausing it again a moment later • On the Spectati engine, a paused movie or episode resumes when you press Play, and one its server drops mid-play picks up where it left off • On Apple TV, short programmes in the guide can be focused and show their title • On Mac, Picture in Picture on the Spectati engine shows the whole picture at any size • On Mac, high-quality movies no longer drop frames in full screen • On Jellyfin and Emby, the player's version choice now plays the file you pick • IPTV titles and channel names drop bracketed tags like “[DE]”, and section headings like “-= Sweden =-” no longer show up as channels • Next Up shows an IPTV or file share series only once you've watched one of its episodes • An unreachable server gets its own error instead of one about your internet connection • A very large catalog no longer runs out of memory while it syncs • Audio and subtitle tracks tagged “jpn”, “kor” or “ger” now follow your language settings
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Spectati can connect to Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, IPTV playlists (M3U, M3U8, JSON), and SMB shares. It allows you to combine these sources into a single, unified library.
No, Spectati is free to use with no ads. The free version allows connection to up to two sources and provides live TV with a full guide and SDR 4K remuxes.
The optional subscription removes the two-source limit, adds full quality playback with HDR and surround sound, enables offline downloads, IPTV catch-up and on-demand content, and provides iCloud sync for your sources and lists.
Spectati uses your XMLTV data to create a full, scrollable guide for live TV channels, showing now and next information. You can hide, rename, sort, and pin channels, with changes surviving playlist refreshes.
Yes, on iPad, Mac, and Apple TV, Spectati's Multiview feature allows you to play up to four channels simultaneously. On Apple TV, you can also zap up and down through channels without leaving the player.
Spectati is natively built for Apple devices, including Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It follows the current Apple TV user, allowing for individual watch histories within a household.
Spectati supports direct playback of high-bitrate 4K remuxes without server transcoding. It passes through Dolby Vision, HDR10+, HDR10, HLG, Dolby Atmos, TrueHD, E-AC-3, and DTS to your display and receiver.
Spectati was last updated on November 3, 2026, with version 1.10.0. This indicates a relatively active development cycle for the application.