Comparison

Supernova IPTV vs Liquid IPTV

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

Head to head
About

Supernova IPTV

Features
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Your IPTV, finally in its place. Supernova transforms your IPTV sources into a complete media experience that is elegant, fast and designed for the Apple ecosystem. Connect your provider with Xtream or import your M3U playlist, then enjoy your channels, movies and series in an interface built around your content. A MEDIA LIBRARY THAT COMES ALIVE โ€ข Automatically discover posters, summaries, cast, ratings and information for your movies and series โ€ข Explore seasons, episodes, actors and recommendations โ€ข Find your content easily with search and categories โ€ข Keep your favorites and viewing progress close at hand LIVE TV, MADE SIMPLE โ€ข Watch channels available from your IPTV provider โ€ข Enjoy fast channel switching and a program guide โ€ข Access catch-up when supported by your provider โ€ข Manage your Xtream sources and M3U playlists YOUR CONTENT, EVERYWHERE โ€ข Download compatible content for offline viewing on iPhone, iPad and Mac โ€ข Start on one device and continue on another โ€ข Sync progress, lists and preferences with iCloud โ€ข Enjoy a native experience on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV MADE FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY โ€ข Create multiple profiles with separate history, favorites and preferences โ€ข Protect profiles with a parental PIN โ€ข Give everyone an experience of their own A CINEMATIC EXPERIENCE ON APPLE TV โ€ข HDR10, HDR10+ and Dolby Vision playback for compatible content โ€ข 5.1 and 7.1 multichannel audio depending on your content and equipment โ€ข Multiple playback engines, including NovaEngine โ€ข An interface designed for the big screen IMPORTANT Supernova is a media player. Supernova does not provide, sell or host any television channels, streaming services or media content. You must provide your own sources and have the necessary rights to access the content you use. Terms of Use: supernovaplayer.com/en/terms Privacy Policy: supernovaplayer.com/en/privacy

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Liquid IPTV

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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 โ€” 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 โ€” 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 โ€” 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 โ€” 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 โ€” on now, and your favourites โ€” 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 โ€” 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

Supernova IPTV4 screens
Liquid IPTV4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Liquid IPTV at 16.4 against Supernova IPTV's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Supernova IPTV sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 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

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly daily. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Supernova IPTV versus Liquid IPTV: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSupernova IPTVLiquid IPTV
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyDailyDaily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV โ€” betteriPhone, iPad, Apple TV
Requires iOS26.016.4 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size106 MB131 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperErwann RambeauxHieu To

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Supernova IPTV

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription$17.991 Year
  • Family Subscription$29.991 Year
2 purchases

Liquid IPTV

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

Questions

Is Supernova IPTV free?
Supernova IPTV 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 Supernova IPTV or Liquid IPTV have ads?
Neither Supernova IPTV nor Liquid IPTV shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Supernova IPTV or Liquid IPTV?
Supernova IPTV ships an update daily, and Liquid IPTV daily. Most recently, Supernova IPTV was updated on October 5, 2026 and Liquid IPTV on October 16, 2026.

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