Comparison

Axon Player vs Liquid IPTV

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

Head to head
About

Axon Player

This app allows you to play your own IPTV playlists on your iPhone and iPad. It offers a premium viewing experience with features like EPG guides, resume support for movies and series, and multi-screen viewing. It also includes family-friendly options like Kids Mode.

Highlights
  • Bring your own content (M3U/portal playlists)
  • Live TV with EPG guide and channel folders
  • Movies & series browsing with resume support
  • Multi-screen viewing
  • Kids Mode with PIN protection
  • Multiple user profiles
Features
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Axon Player is a modern, beautifully designed IPTV player. Add your own playlist from your provider and enjoy your content with a fast, premium experience on iPhone and iPad. BRING YOUR OWN CONTENT Axon Player does not include any channels or content. Add your own M3U or portal playlist from your service provider and start watching in seconds. A PLAYER THAT FEELS PREMIUM • Fast, fluid interface • Live TV with EPG guide and channel folders • Movies & series browsing with resume support • Multi-screen viewing, sleep timer, and playback controls • Subtitle search & download built in MADE FOR FAMILIES • Kids Mode with PIN protection • Multiple user profiles per playlist GO PREMIUM • Use one account on up to 3 devices • Smart Routing — play streams that fail to load directly • Merge playlists, live scores, and more Your playlists sync to your account, so your setup follows you across your devices. Note: Axon Player is a media player only. It does not provide, sell, or endorse any content or subscriptions to content services. — Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://axonplayer.com/privacy.html

About

Liquid IPTV

Features
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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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — on now, and your favourites — 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 — 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

Axon Player4 screens
Liquid IPTV4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Liquid IPTV at every 2 days against Axon Player's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Axon Player sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 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

Axon Player ships an update every 3 weeks, Liquid IPTV every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Axon Player versus Liquid IPTV: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAxon PlayerLiquid IPTV
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple TV
Requires iOS15.5 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size139 MB131 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperMohamed BouadiHieu To

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Axon Player

Subscriptions10
  • Basic — 1 Month$1.491 Month
  • Smart Routing — 1 Month$1.491 Month
  • Basic — 3 Months$2.993 Months
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  • Smart Routing — 3 Months$2.993 Months
  • Basic — 6 Months$4.996 Months
  • Smart Routing — 6 Months$4.996 Months
  • Basic — 1 Year$6.991 Year
  • Smart Routing — 1 Year$6.991 Year
  • Premium — 6 Months$9.996 Months
  • Premium — 1 Year$14.991 Year
2 purchases

Liquid IPTV

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

Questions

Is Axon Player free?
Axon Player 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 Axon Player or Liquid IPTV have ads?
Neither Axon Player nor Liquid IPTV shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Axon Player or Liquid IPTV?
Axon Player ships an update every 3 weeks, and Liquid IPTV every 2 days. Most recently, Axon Player was updated on October 16, 2026 and Liquid IPTV on October 24, 2026.

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