Strimr vs Spectati
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Strimr
Stream your Plex media library with a streamlined, native interface. Discover content easily with rich details, customizable navigation, and smart playback features for uninterrupted viewing. Enjoy offline downloads and collaborative watch parties.
- Plex server connection
- Customizable library visibility
- Hubs-based browsing
- Multiple playback engines
- Resume playback & skip features
- Offline downloads
- Watch Together feature
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Strimr brings your Plex and Jellyfin libraries into a focused, native experience built for effortless discovery and playback. Connect one or several servers, browse everything from a unified home, fine-tune what you see, and enjoy a modern player packed with powerful playback features across Apple devices. Key features: - Native apps for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and Mac - Plex and Jellyfin support, with multiple servers at once and a unified home, libraries, and search - Strimr profiles with optional PIN, plus Plex Home users - Customizable home rows, library visibility, and navigation order - Hubs-based browsing, rich details, and filtered search - Advanced playback with HDR10, HDR10+, HLG, Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos, TrueHD, and DTS - Chapter navigation, thumbnail scrubbing, audio/subtitle controls, and external subtitle search - Playback quality selection and multiple versions - Downloads with offline mode - Live TV - Resume playback, autoplay next episode, and automatic intro & credits skipping - Collections, playlists, and favorites - SharePlay - Seerr integration Strimr requires your own Plex or Jellyfin media server. Strimr is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Plex Inc. or the Jellyfin project. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Spectati
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.
- Unified media library
- Live TV with EPG
- Direct playback of 4K HDR content
- Cross-device watch history
- Personalized recommendations
- Sports league and team following
- Offline downloads (subscription)
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Plex, Jellyfin and your IPTV playlist in one app. Spectati puts your media servers and your live channels in one library on Apple TV, iPhone, iPad and Mac. Your XMLTV data becomes a full guide, and files reach your display and your receiver without re-encoding. ONE LIBRARY Connect Plex, Jellyfin, IPTV playlists, SMB shares and Emby at the same time. A film that sits on two servers shows up once, and Spectati plays the better copy, judged by resolution, codec, HDR and audio. Search covers titles, episodes and live channels from every source. Spectati writes your progress back to the server, so you can stop on one device and pick up on another. LIVE TV WITH A REAL GUIDE Paste an M3U, M3U8 or JSON playlist, or connect an Xtream provider. You get now and next, categories and a timeline you can scroll. SD, HD and 4K feeds of the same channel group under one entry. Hide, rename, sort and pin channels, and your changes survive a playlist refresh. On Apple TV you can zap up and down without leaving the player. On iPad, Mac and Apple TV, Multiview plays up to four channels at once. SPORTS Follow leagues and teams in football, basketball, ice hockey, tennis, motorsport and more, and Spectati finds their matches in your IPTV source's XMLTV guide. Subscribers get kickoff reminders, Watch from Kickoff on catch-up channels and Matchday Multiview. PLAYBACK High-bitrate 4K remuxes direct-play, with no server transcoding. Dolby Vision, HDR10+, HDR10 and HLG go to the display. Dolby Atmos, TrueHD, E-AC-3 and DTS go to the receiver. Adjust audio delay and subtitle timing. Subtitles come from OpenSubtitles, live channels carry DVB teletext, and IntroDB skips the intro. NATIVE ON EVERY APPLE DEVICE Written in Swift for tvOS, iOS, iPadOS and macOS 26 or later. Spectati follows the current Apple TV user, so everyone in the house keeps their own watch history. Families get a PIN lock and age-rating caps. FREE TO USE No ads and no card. Connect up to two sources and you get live TV with the full guide, 4K remuxes in SDR and channel curation. Four Blender open movies on Home let you try the player before you connect anything. FEATURES • Continue Watching, watch history, watchlist and favorites • Like or Not For Me on anything, and Home rows that follow your ratings • Chapters, playback speed and audio modes • 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 lifts the two-source limit and adds full quality playback with 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, Multiview, Sports, automatic subtitles and SIMKL and Trakt 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.
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Verdict
Strimr and Spectati both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Spectati's written reviews are positive against 33% of Strimr's. Spectati also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 11 days). Strimr's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (7 vs 2). On price, rating, ads and device support 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
Both are free to download. Spectati sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Strimr asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Strimr against 5.0 for Spectati. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 33% of Strimr's written reviews are positive against 100% of Spectati's.
Strimr ships an update every 11 days, Spectati every 5 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Strimr | Spectati |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 99 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thomas Vandemeulebroucke | Jacob Søndergaard |
Customer experience
Strimr
Spectati
In-app purchases
Strimr
No in-app purchases
Spectati
- Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Annual7 Days trial$22.991 Year
- Lifetime$99.99








