NowSeen vs Plask
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NowSeen
This app organizes and plays your personal IPTV playlists, M3U files, and Emby/Jellyfin libraries. It offers a program guide, multiscreen viewing, and subtitle customization. Syncs watch history and settings across devices.
- Plays M3U, Emby, Jellyfin
- Program guide with artwork
- Continue Watching row
- Multiscreen live TV
- AirPlay and Chromecast support
- Customizable interface
- Subtitle management
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NowSeen: your channels, films and series in one app NowSeen is a player for your own IPTV playlists, M3U files and Emby or Jellyfin libraries, on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. Add your sources and you get proper artwork, seasons and episodes, ratings, and a Continue Watching row that remembers where you stopped. Everything in one place Movies, series and live channels live side by side. Browse by genre, see what's trending, pin your favourite categories to the Start screen, or search and find something in seconds. A guide that just works A full programme guide with artwork and descriptions, fast to scroll and easy to read on a big screen. Live TV comes with list and grid views, catch-up support and reminders that let you know when a programme starts. Multiscreen Watch up to four live channels at the same time in a 2x2 grid, switch audio between them and open any of them full screen with one press. AirPlay and Chromecast Send live TV, films and series to your TV with AirPlay or Chromecast, subtitles included. Choose which device plays and keep browsing on your phone. Make it yours Rename and reorder channels and categories, hide the rows you don't use, set which sections appear on Start, pick your own EPG sources, choose your metadata language, adjust the text size and set up parental locks. Nearly everything in NowSeen can be changed to how you like it. Subtitles the way you want them Choose your language, pick your exact text size, and switch tracks without leaving the picture. Closed captions are supported, and if a film or episode has no subtitles you can fetch them from OpenSubtitles right from the player. Keeps everything in sync Your playlists, favourites and settings follow you across your devices with iCloud. Optional Trakt and Simkl integration keeps your watch history and progress up to date, automatically and in the background. Made for every screen On Apple TV, NowSeen has a native interface with Top Shelf support. One Premium unlocks the full experience on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. Premium Live TV is free to watch. Premium unlocks the full experience: 1 month for EUR 1.99 12 months for EUR 19.99 Lifetime for EUR 49.99, a single payment with no subscription Prices may vary by region. Your sources, your control NowSeen is a player. It does not provide any content, channels or subscriptions. You bring your own sources. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://nowseen.app/Privacy.html
Plask
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Plask (Swedish for "splash") turns your Apple Watch into a tiny aquatic theatre. Pixel-art rubber ducks paddle around while you bathe or swim. On a watch with a depth sensor (Apple Watch Ultra, any generation, or Apple Watch Series 10 and later) the scene reacts to your real depth: ducks dive when you do, with your live depth, max depth and water temperature at the bottom of the screen. The water's temperature shows up in the scene itself. Cold enough and the surface ices over, scarves come out and breath fogs in the air; hot enough and it steams, bubbles and everyone lounges. Ordinary lake water looks exactly as it always has — the reactions are saved for an ice hole or a hot tub. The scenes feel your wrist, too. Tilt it and the water leans; flick it and it sloshes, heaps up against one side and rolls back. The shore and the sun tilt with you while the water moves against them. Ducks get thrown about, Johnny Castaway clings to his palm, and the surströmming tins go airborne. On watches with a depth sensor, Plask can even open on its own the moment you get in the water. Enable it under Settings > General > Auto-Launch > When Submerged, and the app walks you through the steps. On dry land? Tap "Try a Dive" and drive the water with the Digital Crown from the couch. Swipe sideways and the crown dials the water temperature instead. Between baths, the duck has an off-duty life. It lives on the launch screen, where you can drop in on it, feed it, hand it a toy and put one of your earned hats on it. It is a tjänsteanka — a government-issued service duck — so it keeps a dossier, a provisions journal, and files a report about your absence whenever you have been away. It cannot starve, cannot sulk and has never once been disappointed in you. There are no meters, no streaks, and it will never send you a notification. Every swim is also on the record: Kungliga Badverket, the (fictional) Royal Swedish Bath Authority, issues pixel-art certificates for your aquatic accomplishments — depth, duration, cold water, dawn dips, looking after the duck, and stranger things. Earn hats for your duck. Browse it all in Arkivet, your trophy room. Certificates sync through iCloud, so a new watch keeps your archive. NEW: PLASK FOR IPHONE The Authority has opened a front office on your phone. It is optional — the watch app needs no iPhone — but it is where the paperwork goes to be admired. Play every scene on a virtual watch in the Pool and tilt the phone to slosh it. Read your certificates and field reports in Arkivet and share them as story-sized cards. Visit the duck's file and its wardrobe. Put the duck on your Home or Lock Screen. The phone only reads what your watch has already filed; it never writes, and it collects nothing. FREE • Rubber Ducks scene in Classic Yellow • Live depth, max depth and water temperature on supported watches • Wrist motion in every scene • The iPhone office: the Pool, Arkivet, the duck's file and a Home Screen widget • The off-duty duck: the whole pantry, every toy, hats, its dossier and its paperwork • 55 achievements, a trophy room, and earnable duck hats • Demo mode with a dialable thermometer, watch-face complications and a Smart Stack widget PREMIUM (one-time purchase, no subscription, no nonsense) • 13 extra scenes: Aquarium, Sharks, Octopi, Aliens, Loch Ness, Jellyfish, Castaway, Surströmming, Bioluminescence, Fjorden, Vasa, Skjutbanan and Midsommar • Every duck color, even Goth • Depth gauge overlays • Surprise Me: a different scene every dive • One purchase covers the watch and the iPhone Works on any watch running watchOS 10 or later. Without a depth sensor the animations still run, they just don't know how deep you are. The optional iPhone app needs iOS 17 or later. For fun in shallow water. Plask is not a dive computer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: NowSeen at every 2 days against Plask's every 2 weeks. 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
Both are free to download. NowSeen sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Plask sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
NowSeen ships an update every 2 days, Plask every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NowSeen | Plask |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (16 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 92.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 115 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ricardo Dimmendaal | Compiled |
In-app purchases
NowSeen
- NowSeen Premium$1.991 Month
- NowSeen Premium Family$3.991 Month
- NowSeen Premium$17.991 Year
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- NowSeen Premium Family$34.991 Year
- NowSeen Premium Lifetime$44.99
Plask
- Plask Premium$1.99









