Orion vs Liquid IPTV
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Orion
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Your sources change. Your setup shouldn't have to. Orion is an IPTV player built around the sources you already use. When a source changes, Orion helps retain your favorites, mappings, and personal organizationβso you don't have to start over. BRING YOUR OWN SOURCES Orion does not provide channels, playlists, provider accounts, media, or content subscriptions. You connect only sources you are authorized to use. DISCOVER, LIBRARY & WATCHLIST Discover helps you explore movies and series available through your own connected sources, using genres and your preferences. Discover is included with Orion Premium; results depend on your source catalog. Browse movies and series together in Library. Save titles to your Watchlist for later, including titles not currently available in your connected sources. Saving a title does not provide playback access. KEEP YOUR SETUP WHEN SOURCES CHANGE Setup Rescue can reconcile changed source entries so supported favorites, mappings, and personal organization can survive a source update. Autopilot can handle high-confidence routine changes automatically and bring uncertain replacements to you for review. PLAYBACK THAT REMEMBERS WHAT WORKED Network Sense uses stored playback reliability history to help choose between available playback options that have performed well under similar connection conditions. Instead of relying only on a fixed backup order, Orion can use what has worked before as part of future playback decisions. A GUIDE BUILT AROUND YOU Smart Guide makes your own EPG easier to follow, based on the programs and topics you care about. Follow programs, teams, and topics you care about and surface relevant live or upcoming entries from your own guide data. Event Ready can connect what you follow with matching broadcasts already available in your configured sources. Orion does not provide or add those broadcasts. MORE WAYS TO WATCH Bring multiple live streams together with Multiview. Continue where you left off, use Picture in Picture where supported, and access catch-up or replay when your source provides it. BUILT FOR APPLE DEVICES Orion is designed for iPhone and iPad with supported native playback and system integrations. SOURCE COMPATIBILITY Connect supported M3U and Xtream sources and add XMLTV/EPG data. Use multiple sources and organize your own viewing setup in one place. ORION PRO & PREMIUM Orion Pro is a one-time purchase for the local power-player feature set. Orion Premium is a monthly or annual subscription for ongoing reliability automation, source-continuity handling, and sync across your devices. Premium is not a subscription to TV channels or media content. Some features depend on the data, playback options, and capabilities provided by your configured source. LEGAL Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://orionapp.site/privacy/
Liquid IPTV
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Liquid IPTV plays your own playlist on your iPhone and iPad. It arrives with no channels and no content. You add an M3U link and, if you have one, an XMLTV guide. Everything below exists to make that list pleasant to watch on a screen you hold. MADE FOR YOUR THUMB Four tabs and nothing to hunt through: channels, guide, favourites, settings. Tap a channel and it opens with the picture at the top and its schedule under it β what is on, what is next, and the rest of the day. Turn the phone and the picture takes the whole screen; one tap brings the bar back, and from it the channel list slides in down one side and the guide down the other, both over the picture without stopping it. Swipe the player down to put it away. ON IPAD The line-up down the left, the list in the middle, and the channel playing beside it with its schedule underneath β so changing channel never means leaving the page. Type to find a channel anywhere in the list. YOUR PLAYLIST, READ PROPERLY Most playlists carry more than a web address, and a player that ignores the rest simply fails to open half of them. Liquid IPTV reads the User-Agent and Referer a channel asks for, headers written as #EXTHTTP or hung off the end of the URL, and the Kodi-style properties that name a manifest type or a licence. THREE PLAYBACK ENGINES AVPlayer for HLS, which iOS decodes in hardware. libVLC for what AVPlayer will not open: DASH, MPEG-TS, multicast over a relay, and audio no Apple decoder handles. And LiquidPlayer, built on FFmpeg, which asks for the hardware decoder on every tune and falls back to software only when iOS refuses it β which is what keeps a phone cool on the interlaced channels most relays carry. PICTURE IN PICTURE Leave the app and the picture follows you into a corner of the home screen. Lock the phone and the sound keeps going. ENCRYPTED CHANNELS A channel that carries its ClearKey in the playlist plays: the app decrypts it and hands the result to the engine. A channel behind a licence server does not, and cannot β an Apple TV decrypts FairPlay and nothing else, and no IPTV playlist ships a FairPlay key. The player says so in a sentence rather than showing you a black screen, and the bar marks an encrypted stream as DRM. THE GUIDE A real timeline, not a list of now and next: six half-hour columns opening on the hour, your channels down the side, and the arrow keys walking through both. Any programme takes a reminder, and the reminder arrives over the picture with a frame from that channel behind it. ON THE HOME SCREEN Switch it on and the television's own home screen carries two rows of your channels β on now, and your favourites β each tile showing the last frame the app saw. Press one and the channel opens. THE DETAILS A TELEVISION NEEDS Three ways to lay out a channel list: rows, groups, or a grid. Audio delay, for when the sound runs ahead of the lips. Four aspect ratios. Resolution, frame rate, audio and DRM on the bar, with bitrate and every track in a panel behind it. A udpxy relay for multicast, an HTTP proxy, and a DNS server of your choosing. Twelve languages: English, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Thai, Swedish and Russian. FREE AND PRO Every feature is in every copy. Nothing is locked away, and a licence does not switch anything on β what it buys is time. Without one, playback is limited; Pro removes the limit, as one year or as a lifetime licence. NO CONTENT INCLUDED Liquid IPTV is a player, not a service. It carries no channels, no streams and no subscriptions, and it is not connected to any provider. What you watch is whatever your own playlist points at, and having the right to watch it is yours to arrange. Liquid IPTV Pro (one year) renews automatically at the price shown unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel it in Settings > Users and Accounts > your Apple Account > Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://liquid.close.vn/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Liquid IPTV at every 2 days against Orion's weekly. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Orion sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Liquid IPTV sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Orion ships an update weekly, Liquid IPTV every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Orion | Liquid IPTV |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days β better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV β better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 β better |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 131 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stefan Borkent | Hieu To |
In-app purchases
Orion
- Orion Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
- Orion Premium Annual$24.991 Year
- Orion Pro$8.99
Liquid IPTV
- Liquid IPTV Pro β 1 Year14 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Liquid IPTV Pro β Lifetime$24.99









