Comparison

Spectati vs Quven

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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)
Features
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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.

About

Quven

Features
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Quven brings the films, series, documentaries, music, audiobooks and ebooks stored on your own Quven Server to iPhone and iPad, in an app designed for each screen. YOUR LIBRARY, PRESENTED WITH CARE • Separate sections for films, series, documentaries, music, audiobooks and books • Posters, synopses, cast, ratings and trailers where the catalogues provide them • Continue Watching, Up Next and a Home Screen widget that resumes in one tap • Personal profiles, each with its own Watchlist, collections and private ratings • Fast search across the whole library, including from a hardware keyboard on iPad PLAYBACK AT FULL QUALITY • Direct playback of compatible files at their original quality • HDR on supported devices • A choice of audio track, subtitles and quality • Conversion by your server whenever a file requires it • Picture in Picture and AirPlay • Playback resumes where you stopped, on every device MUSIC, AUDIOBOOKS AND BOOKS • Albums, artists, playlists and lyrics, with playback that continues in the background • Audiobooks with chapters, adjustable speed, a sleep timer and your position saved • A reader for your ebooks, with a table of contents and bookmarks AT HOME AND AWAY On your home network, the app finds your server without an address being typed. Away from home, it can reach the same server through the remote connection set up on that server. PRIVACY Your media files remain on your server and are not stored by Quven. A Quven Account manages sign-in, profiles and the link to your servers, and you can delete it from the app at any time. Diagnostic reports and usage statistics are sent only with your consent. REQUIREMENTS • Quven Server, installed on a computer you own running Windows, macOS or Linux • A Quven Account, which can be created free of charge • Your own media library Quven does not provide, sell or rent films, series, music or books. The app plays only the media stored on your own server. Terms of Use: https://quven.tv/legal/terms Licence Agreement: https://quven.tv/legal/eula Privacy Policy: https://quven.tv/legal/privacy This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB. Quven is developed by Quven Technologies S.R.L.

Screenshots

Spectati4 screens
Quven4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Quven at none against Spectati's 3. Quven also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). Spectati's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 weeks) and device support (4 vs 2). On price and ads 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. Quven asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spectati ships an update every 5 days, Quven every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Spectati versus Quven: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpectatiQuven
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size99 MB77 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJacob SøndergaardQuven Technologies SRL

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Spectati

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Annual7 Days trial$22.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$99.99
None

Quven

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Spectati free?
Spectati is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Quven free?
Quven is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Spectati or Quven have ads?
Neither Spectati nor Quven shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Spectati or Quven?
Spectati ships an update every 5 days, and Quven every 6 weeks. Most recently, Spectati was updated on November 5, 2026 and Quven on November 5, 2026.

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