Comparison

Smart IPTV Player vs Sawa Plus

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Smart IPTV Player

This app allows you to stream live TV, movies, and series from your IPTV provider. It offers a cinema-grade experience with features like EPG, VOD details, and cross-device syncing. Manage multiple playlists and enjoy a privacy-focused, ad-free interface.

Highlights
  • Live TV channel browsing with EPG
  • Movies and series VOD library with details
  • Continue watching across devices via iCloud
  • Favorites and multi-playlist management
  • Native Apple TV interface
  • Multiple audio and subtitle support
Features
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BigPlay turns your IPTV playlist into a beautiful streaming app. Add an M3U link, an Xtream Codes login or a Stalker portal and get live TV with a full guide, plus films and series with posters, trailers and details, on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. No playlist yet? Explore BigPlay with built-in samples first. WHO'S WATCHING? Everyone at home gets their own profile, with their own playlists and My List. Kids profiles and category rules keep the right channels in front of the right people, and a PIN keeps each profile to its owner. LIVE TV WITH A FULL GUIDE • See what's on now and next on every channel • Scroll the full TV guide (EPG) by time • Favorite or hide a channel with a swipe • HD, FHD and 4K versions of a channel fold into one row • Live events gathered in one place MULTI-VIEW Watch up to four live channels on one screen. Tap a picture to hear it, double-tap for full screen. Two screens are free; Pro adds a third and fourth. FILMS AND SERIES, DONE RIGHT Your provider's library matched with posters, backdrops, ratings, cast, trailers and descriptions. Top 10 rows, Continue Watching and My List keep your next watch one tap away. SEARCH THAT GETS IT One ranked list across live TV, films and series, with each title once and typos forgiven. PLAY ON YOUR TV Send anything to Chromecast or AirPlay from one Play on menu and keep browsing while it plays. Screen mirroring plays video full screen on your TV. MADE FOR APPLE TV A real tvOS app with a cinematic design, profiles, Multi-View and a big-screen player built for the Siri Remote. DOWNLOAD AND WATCH OFFLINE With Pro, download films and episodes on iPhone and iPad. Downloads pick up where they stopped. PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Continue Watching remembers your place and syncs with iCloud across iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. A PLAYER THAT JUST PLAYS • Audio tracks and subtitles • 4K and HEVC streams • Picture in Picture • Autoplay for the next episode • M3U, M3U8 and HLS IN YOUR LANGUAGE BigPlay speaks English, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Spanish and Turkish. FREE TO START, PRO WHEN YOU WANT MORE BigPlay is free to download and use, with ads. BigPlay Pro, monthly, yearly or lifetime, removes ads and unlocks Live TV all day, every playlist, four-screen Multi-View and downloads. One Pro covers all your devices. PLEASE NOTE BigPlay is a media player. It does not provide, host or sell any channels, films or series. Add a playlist from a provider you are allowed to use. Terms of Use: https://bigplayhd.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://bigplayhd.com/privacy

About

Sawa Plus

This application offers a user-friendly interface for managing IPTV playlists and channels. Users can organize their favorite channels into personal lists for easy access. It requires users to provide their own media content.

Highlights
  • Intuitive playlist management
  • Personalized favorite channels
  • User-friendly interface
  • Content management
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IPTV the way you like it ! Great user interface that will also allow you to manage your playlists and channels in very intuitive ways. save what your favorite channels are in a personal playlist so that you don’t constantly have to scroll through the TV guide to find them. Disclaimer: - Sawa Plus does not provide or include any media or stream content - Users must enter their own content - We do not endorse the streaming of copyright protected material without permission of the copyright holder.

Screenshots

Smart IPTV Player4 screens
Sawa Plus2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sawa Plus at none against Smart IPTV Player's 3. Sawa Plus also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 82%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Smart IPTV Player's advantage is ratings volume (68 vs 6) and device support. On price there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Smart IPTV Player sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Sawa Plus asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sawa Plus holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Smart IPTV Player has 68 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Smart IPTV Player's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sawa Plus's.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Smart IPTV Player versus Sawa Plus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmart IPTV PlayerSawa Plus
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (68 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews82.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings68 — better6
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYes—
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple TV — better—
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size163 MB164 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIrfan Shahmohamed nabil ibrahim

Customer experience

Smart IPTV Player

All ratings68 ratings
Positive97.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative2.9%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive82.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative17.6%

Sawa Plus

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Smart IPTV Player

Subscriptions2
  • BigPlay Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • BigPlay Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • BigPlay Pro Lifetime$39.99
None

Sawa Plus

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Smart IPTV Player free?
Smart IPTV Player is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sawa Plus free?
Sawa Plus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Smart IPTV Player or Sawa Plus?
Sawa Plus is rated higher. Smart IPTV Player averages 4.8 out of 5 from 68 ratings, while Sawa Plus averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.

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