# Spectati — IPTV, Jellyfin & Plex player > IPTV, Jellyfin & Plex player (iPhone/iPad app by Jacob Søndergaard.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/spectati/id6767241047 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Jacob Søndergaard](https://appshunter.io/developer/1896439227) - Category: Entertainment, Photo & Video - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 26.0 · 57 MB - Languages: American English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish and 5 more - Released: 2026-07-19 - Data updated: 2026-08-25 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/spectati/id6767241047/reviews.md ## What is Spectati? Your IPTV subscription, your Plex, Jellyfin and Emby servers, and the files on your NAS — one library, one app for all of it. Live channels play through Spectati's own engine, built to hold on where other players give up. Every playlist has channels that refuse to behave — they stall, stutter, or drop you back to the list a minute in. The engine was built for exactly those, and a lineup of ten thousand stays usable, too. Categories, favorites, renaming, hiding and custom sorting cut it down to the channels you actually watch, and the choices survive a playlist refresh. A full guide is built from your XMLTV data, catch-up covers programs that have already aired, and if your provider speaks Xtream, its movies and series arrive in the library alongside everything else. Media servers get the same treatment. Plex, Jellyfin and Emby connect at the same time and fold into one library, so a film sitting on two servers becomes a single entry that plays whichever copy is better. Or run no server at all. Point Spectati at an SMB share and it works out what everything is on its own, then goes and finds the posters, descriptions and cast to match. A NAS with a folder of films on it is enough. Everything plays straight from the file. Dolby Vision, HDR10+, HDR10 and HLG go to your display, Dolby Atmos, TrueHD, DTS and E-AC-3 go to your receiver, with nothing re-encoded on the way and no server left transcoding. It is a proper native app on every platform, and it is quick. The Apple TV version was designed around the Siri Remote rather than being an iPhone layout stretched across a television. Rows and artwork keep up with you however fast you move, intros can be skipped, and chapters are there when the file has them. Typing an address and a password on the Siri Remote is slow, so Apple TV shows a QR code and you finish setup on your phone. It stays on your own network and never involves an account. The app is free, with up to two sources connected. Subscribing lifts the limit and unlocks full quality, offline downloads, and your IPTV provider's catch-up and on-demand catalogue. FEATURES • M3U, M3U8 and JSON playlists, and Xtream-compatible IPTV • Full XMLTV guide, catch-up, and your provider's movies and series in the library • Plex, Jellyfin and Emby (beta) libraries, connected at the same time • SMB file shares, with no media server needed • Dolby Vision, HDR10+, HDR10, HLG, Dolby Atmos, TrueHD, DTS and E-AC-3 • Skip intro, chapters, playback speed, audio modes and track delay • Automatic subtitles, or search them yourself • Offline downloads where your provider supports it • Continue Watching, watch history, watchlist and favorites • Like or Not For Me on anything, and a Home that follows your taste • PIN protection, content ratings and channel restrictions • Apple TV user profiles, with personal watch history for each person • AirPlay and Picture in Picture BRING YOUR OWN CONTENT Spectati is a player and organizer. It does not provide media, channels, IPTV subscriptions, playlists, accounts, metadata, subtitles, storage or internet access. Connect your own supported providers and only stream content you're authorized to access. SUBSCRIPTION Browsing, live TV and playback need no account and no subscription, with up to two sources connected. The subscription is optional: it connects an unlimited number of sources and adds full quality playback (HDR and surround sound), offline downloads, IPTV catch-up and on-demand, bulk channel tools, program reminders, iCloud sync of your sources, lists and watch state across your devices, automatic subtitles and SIMKL watch-history sync. It renews automatically and is billed through the App Store, with a free trial when available. You can also choose a one-time lifetime purchase. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Mac, and Family Sharing is supported. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Annual subscription | $34.99 | per year | | Monthly subscription | $3.99 | per month | ## Version history (last 4 releases) ### 1.4.1 — 2026-08-23 Mostly fixes — including a crash when connecting to a network share. FIXED • Adding or streaming from a network share (SMB) could crash the app • Sound could keep playing after you closed the player • Pressing Menu or Back part-way through a scrub left playback paused instead of resuming • Your place in a film could jump backwards after a seek • Watched progress could be reported as saved when it was not • The audio and version pickers could show a track that was not the one playing • Everyday file errors were reported as "Local storage was reset because it was unreadable." • When two servers asked to be trusted at once, the second was never asked again that session • A Jellyfin or Emby library could look empty after a request went out without signing in • Playlist errors could record account details in logs • 7.1 and other less common surround layouts were sent to the wrong speakers • A damaged file could crash playback instead of moving past the bad moment FASTER • The app reaches Home sooner • The TV guide stops rewriting data that has not changed ### 1.4 — 2026-08-14 Home now learns what you like. Give anything a Like or mark it Not For Me, and your recommendations follow — including a row built from the things you liked. With a subscription, your ratings follow you over iCloud. NEW • Like and Not For Me on any film or show, from the long-press menu or the detail screen • Nine curated rows on Home, reshuffled Daily, Weekly or Never — you choose in Settings • Series in an IPTV playlist are gathered into shows with seasons and episodes • Include and exclude terms now cover films and series, and work on Xtream sign-ins FASTER • Home scrolling on Apple TV is much smoother • Big libraries, search, Channel Manager and the TV guide stay responsive on catalogues with tens of thousands of items FIXED • On Apple TV, Home no longer pulls focus back to the rows when you move up to the tabs • A Live TV change that fails to save no longer blocks the ones after it • When two sources carry the same film, removing one no longer takes the film with it • A source that fails to sync no longer empties its rows for the rest of the session • A share that goes offline mid-playback fails in seconds instead of leaving the player waiting • On Mac, the screen no longer sleeps part-way through a film Plus a long list of fixes across playback, live TV, downloads and sync. ### 1.3 — 2026-08-12 Spectati is now free to use. Browsing, live TV and playback need no account and no subscription, with up to two sources connected at a time. A subscription lifts that limit and adds full quality playback, offline downloads, and your IPTV provider's catch-up and on-demand catalogue. NEW • Four sample films play from the Home screen before you connect anything • SMB, WebDAV and SFTP shares, with no media server needed • Emby libraries (beta), alongside Plex and Jellyfin • User profiles on Apple TV, each with its own watch history • Downloads grouped by show and season • Keyboard shortcuts and menu bar commands on Mac and iPad, and Now Playing everywhere Setup now happens inside Home, so nothing stands between opening the app and watching something. Large catalogues load faster, difficult channels hold on longer, and a long list of fixes came with the rest. ### 1.2 — 2026-08-05 No release notes. ## Related topics [plern](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/plern) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-25.*