Comparison

onNext vs Pause TeeVee

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

Head to head
About

onNext

Discover what your friends are watching and reading. This app builds a "TastePrint" based on your preferences and connects you with others who share similar tastes. Track all your entertainment in a unified calendar and join community chats.

Highlights
  • Friend-based recommendations
  • Unified entertainment calendar
  • Personalized "TastePrint"
  • Book and show tracking
  • Community chat rooms
  • Connect with shared tastes
Features
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Every app tells you what to watch or read next. None of them know you the way your friends do. onNext shows you what your friends and family are into right now: what they're starting, and what they keep telling everyone to watch. All from people whose taste you already trust. Your Friends Are Your Feed. A live Top 10 from the people whose recommendations you take seriously, updated as they watch and read. See what everyone is starting and finishing, then add it to your own lineup in a tap. Bring It All With You. Coming from another app? Import your history and ratings in seconds from TV Time, Letterboxd, IMDb, Goodreads, or a plain list you paste in from Notes or anywhere. Your stories come with you. Every Release, On Your Calendar. Stop bouncing between apps to figure out what's on tonight. New episodes and premieres for everything you follow land in one timeline. Books Count Too. Your shelf sits next to your shows, not off in a separate app. See who's mid-chapter and who just finished, and get the same heads-up on release day when the sequel you've been waiting on finally arrives. Find Out Your Sign. Everyone has a type. It shows up in what you rewatch and in the stuff you push on friends without being asked. onNext reads that and sorts you into one of 20 Signs, each with its own crest. Yours puts you in a room with people whose taste really matches. Takes about a minute. Featured By You. Make the kind of list people actually save, and publish it right alongside your reviews and tributes. Know What Just Landed. Spotlight rounds up what's new, plus picks matched to your mood, so you get there before your group chat does. Book and Movie Club Central. Start a private club with friends and put every next pick to a vote, or join a public one that's mid-discussion. You Get The Message. Suggestions and messages arrive with the title attached, so nobody has to ask what you're talking about. Start a group chat for your crew and go all-spoiler when someone finally catches up. A Room for Every Title. Everything in onNext has its own chat room where fans compare notes. Every Sign has one too, so you can find the people wired the way you are. See Who Gets It. Your SyncScore shows how closely your taste lines up with each friend's. Browse their current obsessions and see what made their hall of fame. Come As You Are. No sign-up wall. Walk in as a guest and look around. Make it official whenever you're ready. Your taste is showing.

About

Pause TeeVee

This media player allows you to organize and watch content from your own M3U playlists and Xtream Codes sources. It offers features like EPG support, search, favorites, and Picture in Picture, all while prioritizing user privacy.

Highlights
  • M3U playlist and Xtream Codes support
  • Live TV, Movies, and Series organization
  • Electronic Program Guide (EPG)
  • Search functionality
  • Favorites and Continue Watching
  • Picture in Picture (PiP)
Features
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TeeVee is a media player for the M3U playlist or Xtream Codes source you already use — comparable to VLC or Infuse. It does not include, sell, or provide any channels, movies, or series of its own. You connect your own legally obtained M3U playlist or Xtream Codes source, and TeeVee plays that content. WHAT TEEVEE ADDS • Full program guide (EPG) — browse by category, see what's on now and next • Movies & series library with artwork, search, and season/episode browsing • Resume playback — pick up where you left off, synced across your devices • Favorites, parental PIN lock, and per-category organization • Fast search across all content • Multi-view — watch multiple channels at once • Offline downloads for on-the-go viewing • Optional cloud sync so your connected sources follow you across devices There is no bundled content, no channel lineup, and no affiliation with any broadcaster or content provider. TeeVee simply plays the stream your source's URL points to, the same way a web browser opens a page you type in. OPTIONAL SUBSCRIPTIONS The free tier includes core features with parental controls on one device. Optional auto-renewing subscriptions unlock additional app features: • Sync — $1.99/month: cloud sync across 2 devices, priority support • Plus — $4.99/month: custom EPG sources and 2-way multi-view across 3 devices • Pro — $9.99/month: 4-way multi-view, reminders, and offline downloads across 5 devices • Lifetime — $49.99 one-time: all features, forever Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed in your device's Settings after purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account. See our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy for full subscription terms. Terms of Use: https://rad-medovik-d72bb2.netlify.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://rad-medovik-d72bb2.netlify.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

onNext4 screens
Pause TeeVee4 screens

Verdict

The call

onNext and Pause TeeVee are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for onNext against 5.0 for Pause TeeVee. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

onNext ships an update every 10 days, Pause TeeVee every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
onNext versus Pause TeeVee: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteronNextPause TeeVee
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple TV
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size78 MB131 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperonNext MediaIstafa Marshall

Customer experience

onNext

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Pause TeeVee

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

onNext

No in-app purchases

None

Pause TeeVee

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is onNext free?
onNext is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pause TeeVee free?
Pause TeeVee is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, onNext or Pause TeeVee?
onNext and Pause TeeVee are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do onNext or Pause TeeVee have ads?
Neither onNext nor Pause TeeVee shows ads.
Which is updated more often, onNext or Pause TeeVee?
onNext ships an update every 10 days, and Pause TeeVee every 3 weeks. Most recently, onNext was updated on October 5, 2026 and Pause TeeVee on October 15, 2026.

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