Photon Player vs MADPLAY TV

Photon is a native player for the library you already own. Connect your media servers, your cloud and network storage, and your Live TV subscription, and everything you can watch appears in one place — on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Mac, from a single purchase. YOUR OWN LIBRARY, TOGETHER • Works with Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, Photon and Silo • Connect a server free, or as many as you like with Pro. Home and Search bring them all together; the Library tab keeps each source's own shelves separate, so you can still ask what is on one server. • Play straight from an SMB, NFS, FTP or WebDAV share, a UPnP server on your network with no media server at all • Live TV from an Xtream Codes subscription, M3U: a full programme guide, favourites, and a channel list built for thousands of channels • Open a video from Files or the Finder and it becomes a title like any other — with a resume point, artwork and a name you can match against your servers AS IT WAS MADE • Dolby Vision and HDR, with AVPlayer driving the display for real HDR output • MKV and 4K play as they are. Nothing is quietly downscaled or re-encoded behind your back. • Subtitles drawn as overlays, never burned into the picture • Standing choices for audio language, subtitle language, and when subtitles should come on at all • Skip intros and credits, and go straight into the next episode EVERYWHERE YOU WATCH • Download for offline with Pro. Transfers carry on while you are elsewhere, with a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and a notice when a title lands. • Handoff picks a film up on the next device at the frame you left it • Spotlight opens a title directly • Top Shelf on Apple TV, a real menu bar on the Mac, and one design across all four platforms BUILT FOR THE PLATFORM Written in SwiftUI for iOS, tvOS, macOS and visionOS, with full Dynamic Type, VoiceOver labels on every control, and Reduce Motion respected throughout. There is no account to create and no service of ours in the path: Photon talks to your servers and to your own iCloud, and to nothing else. PHOTON PRO The free app is the whole player: one media server and one Live TV subscription, every drive and network share, and every format — 4K, MKV, Dolby Vision, TrueHD and DTS — with browsing, search, Handoff and SharePlay, no advertising and nothing to sign up for. Pro adds: • Every source at once: as many servers and Live TV subscriptions as you like, together in Home and Search • Downloads, for watching offline • AirPlay to an Apple TV or any AirPlay screen • Your servers, settings and the way you have arranged Home, on every device you sign in on Available monthly, yearly, or as a one-off Lifetime purchase, with a free week on either subscription. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Mac. Photon plays the media you already have on servers and storage you control. It is an independent client and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Jellyfin, Emby or Plex. Terms of Use (EULA): https://photon.oliverwalton.uk/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://photon.oliverwalton.uk/privacy/

Your IPTV library, ready to play. MADPLAY is a player for the live TV, movies and series supplied by your own IPTV account. Sign in with your provider's server address, username and password using Xtream Codes. Browse your library with clear categories, search for a title or channel, and save favourites to My List. Continue Watching helps you return to movies and episodes with saved playback progress. Explore seasons and episodes, and choose whether the next episode plays automatically. Watch live channels with programme information when your provider supplies a TV guide. Choose available audio and subtitle tracks, and resume or seek through supported on-demand streams. MADPLAY is free to use, with no in-app purchases or MADPLAY subscription. It does not include channels, films, shows or an IPTV subscription. You must supply an account from a provider you are authorised to use; that provider may charge separately. Content, guide information, stream availability and playback features depend on your provider and its media. Your sign-in is stored in the device Keychain and sent to the IPTV server you choose. With the same iCloud account and IPTV subscription, My List and viewing progress can sync between iPhone and Apple TV. Your IPTV password is not synced. Image and media services receive the requests needed to display your library and play your streams. MADPLAY automatically looks up title artwork using TMDB through a developer-hosted service. No TMDB account or key is needed. Provider artwork remains the fallback when a title cannot be matched.