Vela Xtream vs Sotto IPTV Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vela Xtream
This app is a private media player for your IPTV subscription. It allows you to organize and watch live TV channels from your provider using an M3U playlist or Xtream login. Enjoy features like a TV guide, subtitle selection, and casting to your TV.
- M3U playlist and Xtream login support
- Live TV guide grid
- Searchable categories
- Wide format playback support
- Subtitle and audio track selection
- Picture in Picture and AirPlay
- Casting to TV
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Vela is a fast, private player for your own IPTV subscription, signed in with an Xtream login or an M3U playlist. Bring the login or playlist your provider gave you and Vela turns it into a library you can actually navigate: categories you can filter and favourite, a TV guide for your channels, and playback that handles the formats other players choke on. • Signs in with an Xtream login, or an M3U or M3U8 playlist by link or from Files, with its XMLTV guide • A TV guide grid: your channels against the clock, wherever your provider publishes listings • Search that finds it as you type: partial words, actors, genres (Vela Pro) • Picks that learn what you like, worked out on your device and never uploaded (Vela Pro) • Categories you can search and star, not just scroll • Plays what iOS normally cannot: Matroska, AVI, HEVC, AC3 and DTS audio • Subtitle and audio track selection • Picture in Picture, AirPlay and background audio • Cast to your TV: AirPlay, Google Cast and DLNA TVs, with your phone as the remote • Continue Watching, recently watched channels, favourites, and next-episode playback • In 12 languages: English, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Turkish, Japanese, Korean and Chinese • Credentials kept in the iOS Keychain, on your device Vela includes no content, no channels and no provider. You need an existing subscription with a provider: an Xtream-compatible login or an M3U playlist. Vela Pro unlocks search, recommendations with a match score on every title, and playback without breaks. A 14-day free trial starts when you sign in; after that, Pro is USD 2.99 per month or USD 14.99 per year, or USD 29.99 once with Vela Pro Lifetime. Without Pro, browsing and playback stay free, and playback pauses for a moment every 10 minutes. Vela Pro is an auto-renewing subscription, billed monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://vela-xtream.pages.dev/privacy Playback is powered by VLCKit, from the VideoLAN project, used under the LGPL.
Sotto IPTV Player
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Sotto is a media player for your own playlist. It contains no channels, films or series, sells no subscription packages and provides access to no content. You decide what it plays: add the M3U address or Xtream details you got from your provider, and the app plays it properly. Two engines, one app. Each stream opens with the engine that suits it — the system player for HLS, a VLC-based engine for TS and MKV. The choice is automatic; the player's Technical screen shows which engine is running and lets you change it. Search at the speed you type. Results arrive while you type, even in lists of a hundred thousand channels, with Turkish folding: typing "turkce" finds "Türkçe". Channels, films and series, each in their own place. Sort films and series alphabetically or by when they were added, see what you have already watched, and keep a list of what you want to watch. Anything you left half-finished resumes where you stopped, or starts over with one tap. Film and series pages show the synopsis, director, cast and other details your provider gives. Programme guide. If your provider publishes one, you see what is on now and what is next. If it does not, the app says so plainly rather than pretending. Made for iPhone and iPad. On iPad it takes a layout of its own; on a phone it works one-handed. Send a stream to your TV with AirPlay, or keep watching in picture-in-picture while you do something else. An account is optional. Playback works fully without one, for free, and the only thing that reaches us is anonymous daily technical counts, which you can switch off in Settings. An account exists only to keep your sources, favourites and playback positions the same across your devices. It does not watch you. No ads, no tracking identifier, no third-party measurement. Only technical counts such as stalls and start-up time reach us, never which channel or film you watched. The connection is made directly with your provider; the app never records, downloads or converts a stream. Privacy: https://sottoiptv.com/en/privacy.html Terms: https://sottoiptv.com/en/terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sotto IPTV Player at none against Vela Xtream's 2. Sotto IPTV Player also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 3 days). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Vela Xtream sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year. Sotto IPTV Player asks for nothing beyond the download.
Vela Xtream ships an update every 3 days, Sotto IPTV Player daily. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vela Xtream | Sotto IPTV Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 104 MB | 137 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Arpit Kumar | Ekrem Sekman |
In-app purchases
Vela Xtream
- Vela Pro$14.991 Year
- Vela Pro Lifetime$29.99
Sotto IPTV Player
No in-app purchases
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