Comparison

Tiny TV vs IPTVS

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

Head to head
About

Tiny TV

Features
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Tiny TV is the coziest way to watch live TV, shows, and movies — beautifully displayed, natively, on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. Bring your own sources and Tiny TV turns them into a premium, Apple-native experience: a real TV guide, rich detail pages, and a player that feels right at home on every screen. A TV GUIDE HUMANS ACTUALLY LIKE • The classic channel grid, minus everything you hated about it • Fast, smooth scrolling with channel logos and program info • Categories, favorites, and instant channel previews EVERYTHING YOU'D WANT. INCLUDED. • Live TV with a full program guide • Movies & shows with rich detail pages — ratings, trailers, cast & more • Global search across everything • Offline downloads • Picture in picture and AirPlay • Dolby Vision + HDR playback • Subtitles and playback speed control • Continue watching, synced with iCloud • Custom app icons DESIGNED FOR YOUR APPLE DEVICES • Native on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV — one app, every screen • Watch history and favorites follow you across devices with iCloud BRING YOUR OWN CONTENT Tiny TV is a player and organizer, not a content service. Connect your own provider or playlist. Tiny TV does not provide any content. Use Tiny TV only with content you are allowed to access. Privacy Policy: https://tinytv.stream/privacy Terms of Use: https://tinytv.stream/terms

About

IPTVS

Features
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IPTVS is a general-purpose media player and organizer for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. IPTVS does not provide, sell, curate or grant access to any channel, playable catalog, media service, playlist, subscription or provider account. The app contains no preset playback endpoints. It plays only titles and streams from sources that a user manually enters and is authorized to use. BRING YOUR OWN AUTHORIZED SOURCE Connect one or more M3U/M3U8 playlists or Xtream-compatible servers that you have the legal right to access. The source chosen by the user supplies all channels, playable movie and series titles, guide data and streams. IPTVS does not select, broker or resell that material. ORGANIZE SOURCE METADATA Create separate lists for channels, movies and series. Pin useful categories, hide others and prioritize the regions that matter to you. Search the metadata supplied by your connected sources and see a clear source label on each item. Movie and series discovery can use public metadata and rankings from TMDB to show views such as Trending, Popular, Top rated, regional Now playing and On the air. These views contain only titles safely matched to a playable movie or series already present in your own sources. TMDB does not provide streams or unlock any title. The local catalog index and TMDB cache contain metadata only. They do not store media, credentials or private playback URLs. GUIDE AND PLAYBACK Browse now and next when your source supplies EPG information or you add an XMLTV URL. Replay is available only when the user's authorized Xtream source explicitly supports TV archive. IPTVS does not download or export media for offline use and does not provide file sharing. For compatibility with some source formats, the app may temporarily remux an active stream into short HLS fragments served only to the local player over the device loopback interface. These temporary playback fragments are not exposed to the user and are removed when playback ends. SYNC YOUR SETUP When iCloud Sync is active on devices using the same Apple Account, IPTVS can keep source setup, favorites, custom lists, movie and episode progress, preferred regions, subtitle language and selected settings in step. Credentials are stored with Apple Keychain where supported and with encrypted fields in the user's private iCloud database for cross-device access. Private playback URLs and credentials are not stored in watch history. FREE TO DOWNLOAD After a user adds an authorized source, IPTVS currently applies no daily playback limits. Use as much as you want. Feel free to support the development with optional Premium. No media, stream or provider access is included with either tier. The app contains no third-party advertising SDK. Only connect sources and play material that you have permission to use. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Tiny TV4 screens
IPTVS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tiny TV at none against IPTVS's 3. IPTVS's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. IPTVS sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Tiny TV asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tiny TV ships an update every 3 days, IPTVS every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on August 10, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Tiny TV versus IPTVS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTiny TVIPTVS
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TViPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size93 MB27 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperZMHMeet Your Maker AB

In-app purchases

None

Tiny TV

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

IPTVS

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium$1.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$49.99

Questions

Is Tiny TV free?
Tiny TV is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is IPTVS free?
IPTVS is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tiny TV or IPTVS have ads?
Neither Tiny TV nor IPTVS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tiny TV or IPTVS?
Tiny TV ships an update every 3 days, and IPTVS every 2 days. Most recently, Tiny TV was updated on August 10, 2026 and IPTVS on September 17, 2026.

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