Comparison

IPTV Lix vs Liquid IPTV

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

Head to head
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IPTV Lix

Features
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IMPORTANT: PERSONAL MEDIA PLAYER โ€” NO CONTENT INCLUDED IPTVLix is a personal media player for your own IPTV subscriptions. It does not provide, host, or distribute any TV channels, live streams, or media content. You must have a valid, legally-licensed IPTV subscription or M3U playlist from an authorized provider to use this app. The developer is not affiliated with any content provider. Users are solely responsible for ensuring they have the rights to access any content they stream. IPTV Lix โ€” Your Ultimate M3U Playlist Player Stream your favorite channels and on-demand content with IPTV Lix, the fastest, most feature-rich IPTV player on iPhone and iPad. LIVE TV & VOD Play any M3U or Xtream Codes playlist. Switch instantly between hundreds of live channels or browse your full VOD library. Smart buffering keeps playback smooth even on slower connections. ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE (EPG) Always know what's on. IPTV Lix automatically loads your EPG feed and displays now-playing information directly on channel listings โ€” no manual setup required. OFFLINE DOWNLOADS Download episodes and movies to your device and watch them anywhere โ€” no internet required. Choose your preferred download quality and manage storage with ease. PARENTAL CONTROLS Set a PIN to restrict access to adult channels and content categories. Keep your playlist safe for the whole family without limiting your own experience. MULTI-ACCOUNT SUPPORT Add multiple M3U or Xtream Codes accounts. Switch between them in seconds. Perfect for managing different providers or sharing the app with family members. BUILT FOR SPEED Hardware-accelerated video playback handles HD and 4K streams without straining your device. Background playback and Picture-in-Picture keep content running while you multitask. SEARCH & FAVORITES Find any channel or movie in seconds with full-text search. Save your favorites and pick up where you left off with recently watched history. KEY FEATURES โ€ข M3U & Xtream Codes playlist support โ€ข Live TV, VOD, and series โ€ข Built-in EPG (Electronic Program Guide) โ€ข Offline downloads with quality selection โ€ข Multi-account management โ€ข Parental controls with PIN lock โ€ข Favorites and recently watched โ€ข Full-text search across all content โ€ข Dark mode support โ€ข Picture-in-Picture playback โ€ข No subscription required IPTV Lix works with any IPTV provider that offers an M3U playlist URL or Xtream Codes API credentials. No content is included โ€” bring your own playlist.

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Liquid IPTV

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Liquid IPTV plays your own playlist on your iPhone and iPad. It arrives with no channels and no content. You add an M3U link and, if you have one, an XMLTV guide. Everything below exists to make that list pleasant to watch on a screen you hold. MADE FOR YOUR THUMB Four tabs and nothing to hunt through: channels, guide, favourites, settings. Tap a channel and it opens with the picture at the top and its schedule under it โ€” what is on, what is next, and the rest of the day. Turn the phone and the picture takes the whole screen; one tap brings the bar back, and from it the channel list slides in down one side and the guide down the other, both over the picture without stopping it. Swipe the player down to put it away. ON IPAD The line-up down the left, the list in the middle, and the channel playing beside it with its schedule underneath โ€” so changing channel never means leaving the page. Type to find a channel anywhere in the list. YOUR PLAYLIST, READ PROPERLY Most playlists carry more than a web address, and a player that ignores the rest simply fails to open half of them. Liquid IPTV reads the User-Agent and Referer a channel asks for, headers written as #EXTHTTP or hung off the end of the URL, and the Kodi-style properties that name a manifest type or a licence. THREE PLAYBACK ENGINES AVPlayer for HLS, which iOS decodes in hardware. libVLC for what AVPlayer will not open: DASH, MPEG-TS, multicast over a relay, and audio no Apple decoder handles. And LiquidPlayer, built on FFmpeg, which asks for the hardware decoder on every tune and falls back to software only when iOS refuses it โ€” which is what keeps a phone cool on the interlaced channels most relays carry. PICTURE IN PICTURE Leave the app and the picture follows you into a corner of the home screen. Lock the phone and the sound keeps going. ENCRYPTED CHANNELS A channel that carries its ClearKey in the playlist plays: the app decrypts it and hands the result to the engine. A channel behind a licence server does not, and cannot โ€” an Apple TV decrypts FairPlay and nothing else, and no IPTV playlist ships a FairPlay key. The player says so in a sentence rather than showing you a black screen, and the bar marks an encrypted stream as DRM. THE GUIDE A real timeline, not a list of now and next: six half-hour columns opening on the hour, your channels down the side, and the arrow keys walking through both. Any programme takes a reminder, and the reminder arrives over the picture with a frame from that channel behind it. ON THE HOME SCREEN Switch it on and the television's own home screen carries two rows of your channels โ€” on now, and your favourites โ€” each tile showing the last frame the app saw. Press one and the channel opens. THE DETAILS A TELEVISION NEEDS Three ways to lay out a channel list: rows, groups, or a grid. Audio delay, for when the sound runs ahead of the lips. Four aspect ratios. Resolution, frame rate, audio and DRM on the bar, with bitrate and every track in a panel behind it. A udpxy relay for multicast, an HTTP proxy, and a DNS server of your choosing. Twelve languages: English, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Thai, Swedish and Russian. FREE AND PRO Every feature is in every copy. Nothing is locked away, and a licence does not switch anything on โ€” what it buys is time. Without one, playback is limited; Pro removes the limit, as one year or as a lifetime licence. NO CONTENT INCLUDED Liquid IPTV is a player, not a service. It carries no channels, no streams and no subscriptions, and it is not connected to any provider. What you watch is whatever your own playlist points at, and having the right to watch it is yours to arrange. Liquid IPTV Pro (one year) renews automatically at the price shown unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel it in Settings > Users and Accounts > your Apple Account > Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://liquid.close.vn/privacy

Screenshots

IPTV Lix4 screens
Liquid IPTV4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Liquid IPTV at none against IPTV Lix's shown. Liquid IPTV also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 8 days). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. IPTV Lix sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Liquid IPTV sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

IPTV Lix ships an update every 8 days, Liquid IPTV every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
IPTV Lix versus Liquid IPTV: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIPTV LixLiquid IPTV
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysEvery 2 days โ€” better
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple TV
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better16.4
Further details โ€” not scored
Size82 MB131 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperPFonsecaHieu To

In-app purchases

2 purchases

IPTV Lix

Subscriptions2
  • Premium$2.991 Month
  • Premium$14.991 Year
2 purchases

Liquid IPTV

Subscriptions1
  • Liquid IPTV Pro โ€” 1 Year14 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Liquid IPTV Pro โ€” Lifetime$24.99

Questions

Is IPTV Lix free?
IPTV Lix is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Liquid IPTV free?
Liquid IPTV is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do IPTV Lix or Liquid IPTV have ads?
IPTV Lix shows ads; Liquid IPTV does not.
Which is updated more often, IPTV Lix or Liquid IPTV?
IPTV Lix ships an update every 8 days, and Liquid IPTV every 2 days. Most recently, IPTV Lix was updated on November 5, 2026 and Liquid IPTV on October 31, 2026.

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