Comparison

IPTV Player vs IPTV Deck

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

Head to head
About

IPTV Player

This media player allows you to stream video and audio from your chosen sources. It also provides football match schedules, results, and league standings with customizable alerts.

Highlights
  • Supports M3U and Xtream Codes
  • Arabic cinematic interface with channel search
  • Favorite channels and watch history
  • Football match schedules and standings
  • Customizable match alerts
  • Picture aspect ratio options
Features
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IPTV Player — مشغّل وسائط ومتابعة مباريات شغّل الفيديو والصوت من مصادر البث التي تختارها، وتابع مواعيد مباريات كرة القدم ونتائجها وترتيب البطولات. المزايا: • دعم قوائم M3U وبيانات Xtream Codes. • واجهة سينمائية باللغة العربية، والبحث بين القنوات. • حفظ القنوات المفضلة وسجل المشاهدة الأخيرة. • دعم iPhone وiPad. • جدول مباريات وترتيب البطولات، مع أولوية دوري أبطال أوروبا ثم الدوريات الأجنبية ثم العربية. • جرس لكل مباراة، وإمكانية متابعة النادي الذي تختاره. • تنبيهات اختيارية قبل المباراة بـ٤٥ أو ١٥ دقيقة، وعند بدايتها وعند انتهائها مع النتيجة. • جميع التنبيهات مطفأة افتراضياً للمستخدم الجديد. فعّلها واختر أنواعها بنفسك، مع إمكانية إيقافها أو كتم مباراة محددة. تبقى اختيارات المستخدم المحفوظة كما هي. • خيار ملاءمة الصورة للحفاظ على نسبتها الأصلية، وخيار تمديدها لملء مساحة المشاهدة دون قص الأطراف. لتشغيل القنوات، أدخل عنوان السيرفر وبيانات الدخول الخاصة بمصدر البث الذي تستخدمه، أو أضف قائمة M3U. لا يوفّر التطبيق اشتراك بث أو قنوات تلفزيونية؛ المحتوى المرئي يأتي من المصدر الذي يقدمه المستخدم. تُحفظ إعداداتك وبيانات مصدر البث على جهازك وتُستخدم للاتصال بمصدره. تستخدم التنبيهات خدمة Firebase Cloud Messaging وبيانات تقنية لازمة لتشغيلها، حسب اختياراتك. تتوفر التفاصيل في سياسة الخصوصية.

About

IPTV Deck

Transform your playlists into a comprehensive TV experience with a full program guide, catch-up functionality, and offline downloads. Enjoy smooth playback on extensive channel lists, personalized profiles, and seamless cross-device syncing. Securely manage your provider passwords and enhance viewing with features like multiview and AirPlay support.

Highlights
  • Full program guide with catch-up
  • Offline downloads for movies and series
  • Personalized profiles with kids mode
  • Cross-device syncing of playlists and watchlists
  • Multiview up to nine channels
  • End-to-end encryption for passwords
  • Support for M3U, Xtream Codes, and MAC portals
Features
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IPTV Deck is an IPTV player that turns your own playlist into a proper TV experience. Bring an Xtream Codes account, an M3U link or a file from your device — everything else is handled: a full programme guide, catch-up, favourites, offline downloads, and playback that stays smooth on playlists with over 100,000 channels. It also connects to your own Jellyfin, Emby or Plex media server. HIGHLIGHTS • Profiles — everyone in the house gets their own favourites, history and watchlist, with a kids profile and a PIN • Live sync — start on your phone, finish somewhere else; playlists, favourites, watchlist and your exact position follow you • End-to-end encryption — your provider passwords never sit readable in the cloud • Multiview — up to nine channels at once, side by side or stacked • Send to TV — pick something on your phone and it starts playing on a television running IPTV Deck • Picture in Picture and lock screen controls • MAC portals — add a Stalker or Ministra portal next to Xtream Codes and M3U • Jellyfin, Emby and Plex — add your own media server next to your playlists: its films and series with posters and episodes, watched status and resume position kept in sync, and the Live TV of Jellyfin and Emby • Remembered tracks — subtitles and audio stay as you chose them for every film and episode, on all your devices • Genres — browse your films and series by genre (with a TMDB account) • Recording — record live programmes and watch them later • AirPlay — send a film or a channel to an Apple TV or an AirPlay 2 television PLAYLISTS • Xtream Codes, M3U link, or a local file • Several playlists with a quick switcher • 100,000+ channels without lag — the catalogue lives in a local database • Automatic refresh every 6, 12 or 24 hours, Wi-Fi-only option, refresh on demand • Per-playlist User-Agent and alternative provider hosts LIVE TV • Now and next on every channel, with a progress bar • Categories, your own groups, hidden channels, PIN-locked categories • Favourites in the order you choose • 4K and HD filters, jump to a letter, instant search • Channel versions (HD / FHD / 4K) detected and grouped automatically SPORTS • Today's games from the teams and leagues you follow, with live scores • The channel showing the match, found in your own playlist and guide • Kick-off reminders, goal alerts and a hide-scores mode against spoilers TV GUIDE • Full grid with logos, reaching back as far as your provider's catch-up allows • Tap a programme that already aired to watch it from catch-up; tap a future one to set a reminder • Several XMLTV sources, automatic channel matching, time offset • Reminders arrive even when the app is closed MOVIES & SERIES • Posters, metadata, resume bars, watched episodes • Sort by date added, name, year or rating • Watchlist and Continue watching • Offline downloads — whole films or single episodes PLAYER • Plays what other apps choke on, HEVC and AC-3 included • Subtitles from OpenSubtitles, matched to the title, with adjustable size • Edge gestures for brightness and volume, double-tap to skip, pinch to zoom • Sleep timer, background audio, autoplay next episode • Catch-up playback with "go live" and "from the start" CHROMECAST • Cast anything and pick audio and subtitle tracks from your phone PRIVACY & PARENTAL CONTROL • App lock with a PIN and PIN-locked categories • Selective sync — you decide which data ever leaves the device • Backup and restore to a file IPTV Deck does not include, provide or sell any channels, films or subscriptions, and contains no content of its own. You need your own playlist from your provider.

Screenshots

IPTV Player4 screens
IPTV Deck4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: IPTV Player at none against IPTV Deck's 4. IPTV Deck's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 10 days). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. IPTV Deck sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. IPTV Player asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for IPTV Player against 5.0 for IPTV Deck. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

IPTV Player ships an update every 10 days, IPTV Deck every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
IPTV Player versus IPTV Deck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIPTV PlayerIPTV Deck
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings25 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB150 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperAli Mahdi JabalZbigniew Szepczyski

Customer experience

IPTV Player

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

IPTV Deck

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

IPTV Player

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

IPTV Deck

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Yearly$12.991 Year
One-time2
  • Family Devices$14.99
  • Lifetime$32.99

Questions

Is IPTV Player free?
IPTV Player is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is IPTV Deck free?
IPTV Deck is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, IPTV Player or IPTV Deck?
IPTV Player and IPTV Deck are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do IPTV Player or IPTV Deck have ads?
Neither IPTV Player nor IPTV Deck shows ads.
Which is updated more often, IPTV Player or IPTV Deck?
IPTV Player ships an update every 10 days, and IPTV Deck every 2 days. Most recently, IPTV Player was updated on October 31, 2026 and IPTV Deck on November 5, 2026.

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