Comparison

Elastic Player vs Spectati

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

Head to head
About

Elastic Player

Features
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Elastic Player is a fast, modern player for the IPTV service you already have. Add your M3U playlist or Xtream Codes login once, and your live channels, films and series are organised, searchable and ready to resume where you left off. LIVE TV, FILMS AND SERIES • Live channels sorted into categories, with a TV guide (EPG) showing what's on now and next • Films and series with posters, details, seasons and episodes • Continue Watching picks up exactly where you stopped • Favourites and watch history, one tap away on the Home screen • Search across everything at once PLAYBACK THAT JUST WORKS • Powerful VLC-based engine that handles HLS and most stream formats • Audio track and subtitle selection, playback speed and aspect ratio • Picture-in-Picture, so you can keep watching while you use other apps • Cast to TVs and streaming devices on your network MADE FOR YOUR TV TOO • Send a playlist to your TV by scanning the code on its screen — no typing with a remote • Use your phone as a remote for Elastic Player on your TV, with a keyboard for search YOURS, AND PRIVATE • No account to create. Playlists, favourites and history stay on your device • Parental controls: lock categories and titles behind a PIN • Available in 13 languages, following your phone's language automatically IMPORTANT Elastic Player is a media player only. It does not provide, host or sell any channels, films, series or playlists, and it comes with no content. To use it you need a playlist or login from an IPTV provider you are entitled to use.

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Spectati

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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 (beta) 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 (BETA) 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.

Screenshots

Elastic Player4 screens
Spectati4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Elastic Player at none against Spectati's 3. Elastic Player also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). Spectati's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 8 days). On price 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. Spectati sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Elastic Player asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Elastic Player ships an update every 8 days, Spectati every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 4 level
Elastic Player versus Spectati: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterElastic PlayerSpectati
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — better
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size102 MB97 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperKadir Caner ErgunJacob Søndergaard

In-app purchases

None

Elastic Player

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Spectati

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Annual7 Days trial$22.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$99.99

Questions

Is Elastic Player free?
Elastic Player is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spectati free?
Spectati is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Elastic Player or Spectati have ads?
Elastic Player shows ads; Spectati does not.
Which is updated more often, Elastic Player or Spectati?
Elastic Player ships an update every 8 days, and Spectati every 4 days. Most recently, Elastic Player was updated on October 28, 2026 and Spectati on October 31, 2026.

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