Lume vs M3UHub
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lume
This app is a native IPTV player for Apple devices that transforms your existing playlists into a cinematic library. It supports live TV, movies, and series with detailed program guides, artwork, and ratings. Customize your viewing experience with profiles, favorites, and parental controls.
- Native Apple device design
- Multiple playback engines
- 4K HDR support
- Full program guide
- Season/episode tracking
- Multiple user profiles
- Parental controls
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Lume is a beautiful, native IPTV player for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro. Connect your Xtream Codes provider, add a Stalker portal, or import any M3U / M3U8 playlist, and Lume turns it into a fast, cinematic library of Live TV, Movies, and Series — with artwork, ratings, and a full program guide. Lume ships with no channels or content of its own. You bring your own subscription or playlist; Lume just makes it look and feel incredible. WHY LUME • Native on every Apple device — one app, designed for each screen • Four playback engines — KSPlayer, VLC, AVPlayer, and Lume Engine (beta) — with automatic fallback for maximum codec support • 4K HDR, hardware-accelerated, with Picture in Picture and AirPlay LIVE TV • Browse channels by category with logos and now / next EPG • Full program guide with a scrollable timeline • Multi-View — watch up to four channels at once, with a spotlight layout and switchable tiles • Custom XMLTV EPG sources on their own refresh schedule • Catch-up / time-shift and recently-watched zapping MOVIES & SERIES • Poster grids and cinematic detail pages • Ratings from IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes & Metacritic • Season / episode tracking with per-episode progress • Artwork, trailers, and cast from TMDB DOWNLOAD & WATCH OFFLINE • Save movies and episodes to your device for flights, trains, and dead zones • Downloads keep running while you use other apps • One Downloads screen to manage everything SUBTITLES & AUDIO • Search and load subtitles from OpenSubtitles without leaving the player • Switch audio and subtitle tracks per stream • Deinterlacing options for older SD channels (Lume Engine) MADE PERSONAL • Continue Watching, Favorites, Trending, and a For You rail tuned to your taste • Choose which rows appear on Home, and in what order • Hide and reorder categories and channels — in bulk, with search • Multiple profiles, each with its own history — synced across devices via iCloud • Parental controls with child profiles and PIN protection • Global search across everything, plus Skip Intro / Recap and Next Up auto-play WATCH YOUR WAY • Resume across devices; auto mark-as-watched • Optional Trakt scrobbling and history import • Hand off to Infuse, VLC, or VidHub — for movies, live TV, or both LUME PRO Lume is free to download. Lume Pro — a monthly subscription or a one-time lifetime unlock — adds unlimited playlists, offline downloads, Multi-View, multiple profiles, Trakt scrobbling, Next Up / Skip Intro, and the For You row. Bring your own legal IPTV subscription or playlist — Lume does not provide, sell, host, or recommend any content or providers.
M3UHub
This app allows users to play live TV streams by importing their own M3U or TXT playlists. It supports various video formats and web content, offering a customizable viewing experience without pre-loaded channels.
- Import M3U and TXT playlists
- Supports web video playback
- Plays M3U8 streams
- No pre-loaded channels
- Customizable viewing experience
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M3U播放器,不内置任何频道,需要导入自己有权使用的直播源 支持M3U,TXT,网页视频,M3U8
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Lume at 4.9 against M3UHub's 4.5. Lume also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (45 vs 2). M3UHub's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 5 days). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Lume sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and M3UHub sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Lume holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lume has 45 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 86% of Lume's written reviews are positive against 92% of M3UHub's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Lume ships an update every 5 days, M3UHub daily. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lume | M3UHub |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (45 ratings) — better | 4.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | 91.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 45 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 134 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Philipp Bischoff | 玲 张 |
Customer experience
Lume
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In-app purchases
Lume
- Lume Pro (Monthly)$0.99
- Lume Pro (Lifetime)$9.99
M3UHub
- M3UHub Pro$3.99









