Comparison

Tivio IPTV 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

Tivio IPTV

Features
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The IPTV player your iPhone and iPad have been waiting for. Native. Beautiful. Fast. Connect your existing IPTV provider (M3U playlist or Xtream Codes login) and Tivio loads your channels, movies, series, and TV guide in one tap. Then it stays out of your way. ▸ NATIVE FROM THE GROUND UP Pure Swift, pure SwiftUI. No Electron, no WebView, no wrapper. Tivio launches in under a second and feels like a first-party Apple app — because it's built like one. iPhone and iPad, one universal app. ▸ BLAZING-FAST PLAYBACK Hardware-accelerated decoding for every codec your provider throws at it — HEVC, AVI, MKV, H.264, even obscure transport-stream variants. Channels switch in under a second. Scrubbing stays smooth. The interface never freezes, even on 4K streams. ▸ WATCH ANYWHERE Picture-in-Picture floats live TV while you text, browse, or check the score — and keeps playing when you lock your phone. Send any stream to the big screen with AirPlay. Audio keeps going on the lock screen, full controls included. ▸ MADE FOR iPAD Full multitasking — Split View, Slide Over, and Stage Manager. Watch in any orientation, side-by-side with anything else. ▸ MULTI-SOURCE Add as many providers as you like. Switch between them in two taps. Your channels, movies, and series stay separately organized per source. ▸ INVISIBLE SYNCS Your catalog auto-syncs — once a day or on demand, your choice. Keep watching live TV while it updates. No spinning wheels, no waiting. ▸ DESIGNED FOR TOUCH Continue movies, episodes, and channels right where you stopped. New arrivals get their own rails. Pin the categories you actually watch to the top. Heart anything to favorite it. Per-channel and per-show recents follow you everywhere. ▸ SEARCH AT SCALE Optimized indexes scan hundreds of thousands of movies, series, and channels — instantly. The result is on screen before you finish the second character. ▸ ONE PURCHASE, EVERY DEVICE One subscription covers every iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV in your household, with Family Sharing. Start a movie on your phone, finish it on the TV. No login dance, no per-device fees. ▸ PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your IPTV credentials never leave your device. No accounts. No analytics. No tracking. Tivio doesn't have servers — and that's the point. THREE MONTHS FREE Try Tivio for three months on the house. Then $9.99/year. Cancel anytime — you'll never be charged if you cancel before the trial ends. ———— Tivio is a player, not a content provider. You bring your own legal IPTV subscription from your chosen provider; Tivio plays it beautifully. No content is included, hosted, or distributed by Tivio. Subscription: Tivio Yearly · $9.99/year (after 3-month free trial) Auto-renews until cancelled · Manage in Apple Account → Subscriptions Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://gridlie.com/tivio/privacy

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 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

Tivio IPTV4 screens
IPTV Deck4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: IPTV Deck at every 2 days against Tivio IPTV's weekly. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Tivio IPTV sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per year and IPTV Deck sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tivio IPTV ships an update weekly, IPTV Deck every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Tivio IPTV versus IPTV Deck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTivio IPTVIPTV Deck
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple TViPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — better
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB147 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperGridlieZbigniew Szepczyski

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Tivio IPTV

Subscriptions1
  • Tivio Yearly3 Months trial$9.991 Year
4 purchases

IPTV Deck

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

Questions

Is Tivio IPTV free?
Tivio IPTV is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is IPTV Deck free?
IPTV Deck is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tivio IPTV or IPTV Deck have ads?
Neither Tivio IPTV nor IPTV Deck shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tivio IPTV or IPTV Deck?
Tivio IPTV ships an update weekly, and IPTV Deck every 2 days. Most recently, Tivio IPTV was updated on October 15, 2026 and IPTV Deck on October 24, 2026.

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