Comparison

Orion vs Sotto IPTV Player

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

Head to head
About

Orion

Features
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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 organizationβ€”so 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/

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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 β€” 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 "TΓΌrkΓ§e". 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

Screenshots

Orion4 screens
Sotto IPTV Player4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sotto IPTV Player at none against Orion's 3. Sotto IPTV Player also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

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

Both are free to download. Orion sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Sotto IPTV Player asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Orion ships an update weekly, Sotto IPTV Player daily. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
Orion versus Sotto IPTV Player: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOrionSotto IPTV Player
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo β€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size92 MB137 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperStefan BorkentEkrem Sekman

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Orion

Subscriptions2
  • Orion Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Orion Premium Annual$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Orion Pro$8.99
None

Sotto IPTV Player

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Orion free?
Orion is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sotto IPTV Player free?
Sotto IPTV Player is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Orion or Sotto IPTV Player have ads?
Neither Orion nor Sotto IPTV Player shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Orion or Sotto IPTV Player?
Orion ships an update weekly, and Sotto IPTV Player daily. Most recently, Orion was updated on October 31, 2026 and Sotto IPTV Player on October 10, 2026.

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