Comparison

FinStream vs tofa

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

Head to head
About

FinStream

Features
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FinStream is a native, modern client for your personal media server. Bring your movie and TV collection to your Apple devices with a clean interface. • Connect to one or more media servers • Browse libraries, movies, shows, seasons and episodes • Resume playback across devices, with progress synced through your server • Built-in player with subtitle and audio track selection • Discover what is trending in your libraries • Optional request-service integration to browse and request new content • Designed for the latest SwiftUI APIs and Liquid Glass appearance You need your own compatible media server to use FinStream.

About

tofa

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tofa plays the movies and shows you already own. You run a tofa server on a computer at home and point it at your media folders. Sign in to this app with your tofa account and your server is there, with your libraries, your artwork, and your place in every episode. WATCH ON EVERY SCREEN Your progress follows you. Start a film on Apple TV, finish it on your phone on the train. There is nothing to copy across and nothing to sync by hand. BUILT FOR YOUR LIBRARY Movies and shows are organized automatically, with posters, backdrops, descriptions, and cast. Seasons and episodes land in the right order. When something is named unusually, you can correct the match yourself and it stays corrected. PLAYS YOUR FILES AS THEY ARE Most of your library plays exactly as it sits on disk, which means the best picture your device can show. When a file needs converting, your server handles it and playback keeps up. PICTURE AND SOUND Dolby Vision, HDR10, and 4K on the hardware that supports them. Surround audio passes through to your receiver. Pick the audio track and subtitles you want, and tofa remembers the choice. SUBTITLES THAT WORK Text and image subtitles both render, including styled subtitles. Sidecar files sitting next to your media are picked up automatically. SHARE WITH PEOPLE YOU TRUST Give family or friends access to some or all of your libraries. Everyone gets their own profile, their own watch history, and their own place in each show. YOUR MEDIA STAYS YOURS tofa does not host any content. It plays the files on the server you run. We do not track you across apps or websites, we do not serve ads, and we do not sell your data. You need a tofa server to use this app. Setting one up takes about ten minutes.

Screenshots

FinStream4 screens
tofa4 screens

Verdict

The call

FinStream and tofa are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FinStream ships an update every 6 days, tofa every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
FinStream versus tofa: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFinStreamtofa
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple TV
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB54 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZabir RaihanTofa Software ehf.

In-app purchases

None

FinStream

No in-app purchases

None

tofa

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FinStream free?
FinStream is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is tofa free?
tofa is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FinStream or tofa have ads?
Neither FinStream nor tofa shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FinStream or tofa?
FinStream ships an update every 6 days, and tofa every 3 days. Most recently, FinStream was updated on October 9, 2026 and tofa on October 10, 2026.

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