Hectic TVHectic TV for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV and Apple Watch
All your TV.
Beautifully native.
We don’t sell channels. We play yours.
Hectic TV works like a web browser for TV. It doesn’t include, sell or recommend any channels, playlists or streams, and our help assistant won’t point you to any. Want to try it first? Add the five openly licensed sample films.
Eight ways in.
One library.
Everything starts at Home → Add your TV. Passwords go in your iCloud Keychain. Favourites survive every refresh.
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Xtream Codes
Server, username and password from your provider. Live TV, films, series and Catch Up.
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M3U link
Paste an M3U or M3U8 address. Big lists keep importing in the background.
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M3U file
From Files or iCloud Drive.
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Jellyfin
Your own server: films, series and live TV, with Quick Connect sign-in.
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Single stream
One HLS or MP4 address. Plays, saves nothing.
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Local video
Films already on the device.
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Sample films
Five openly licensed films in HD, for trying it before you add a provider.
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Free Films & Cartoons
Public-domain classics from the Internet Archive, each credited.
A guide you’ll
actually open.
A timeline grid with a live now line, reminders, Catch Up and Start Over on channels your provider archives, and Time Shift when a provider’s clock is off.
Demo channels from our App Store screenshots. Yours come from your provider’s XMLTV guide.
- RemindersA notification a few minutes before it starts. Tap it to open the channel.
- Catch UpProgrammes from the last few days, from the start, where your provider keeps an archive.
- TranslateProgramme details translated on your device (Pro).
- Mini guideOpen it over the picture without leaving the channel.
Box sets,
with somewhere
to put them.
Posters, seasons, episodes and resume on every device. Skip Intro. Next Episode. HLS, MP4 and MKV, which is repackaged on the device so Apple’s player can open it.
Five screens.
One download.
Buy Pro once and iCloud sync carries playlists, favourites, locks and history to every device. No codes to type.
Keys for
everything.
On Mac and iPad with a keyboard. On Apple TV, your iPhone becomes the remote: big channel buttons, a number pad, the sleep timer, and a keyboard that types into search.
Watch together.
Lock what you need to.
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SharePlay
Over FaceTime or Messages. Pause, scrub and next episode stay in sync for everyone.
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AirPlay
To Apple TV, AirPlay smart TVs, HomePod and speakers.
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Parental controls
A PIN, adult content locked by default, and locks for single channels or whole groups.
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Face ID
Lock the whole app if you want to.
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Cinema Mode
Opt in, and HomeKit dims the lights you choose when playback starts.
We don’t know what you watch.
No accounts, analytics, ads or tracking, and no third-party SDKs. Your library lives on your devices and in your own iCloud, which we can’t see. Privacy policy.
Free.
Or Pro, once.
No subscription, no ads in either. The App Store shows the price in your currency.
Free
- One playlist
- Live TV, the guide, movies and series
- Picture in Picture and AirPlay
- Parental controls
- Sample films don’t count towards the limit
Pro · once
- Unlimited playlists
- iCloud sync across your devices
- Multiview, up to four channels
- Guide translation on your device
- Shared with Family Sharing
Coming later.
No dates yet.
Each of these exists in our code or is waiting on an approval. None is released.
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Hectic TV for the webPreview
A browser version of the player is in preview at watch.hectictv.app. It plays your own M3U and Xtream playlists. It isn’t a finished release, and Pro purchases aren’t available there yet.
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Apple Vision ProPlanned
Builds for visionOS in our code. Not on the App Store yet.
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Android, Android TV and Fire TVPlanned
In development. Not on Google Play or the Amazon Appstore yet. The first version covers playlists, Xtream Codes, the guide and playback.
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Samsung, LG and Hisense TVs, Windows, RokuPlanned
Early versions for Tizen, webOS, VIDAA, Windows and Roku exist in our code. None is in a store.
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CarPlay, for listeningPlanned
Favourites and groups as audio in the car. Ready in code, waiting on Apple’s CarPlay audio permission. No video: Apple doesn’t allow it.
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Siri in more languagesPlanned
Siri phrases are English only today. The rest of the app is in 37 languages.
Stuck?
Ask.
Ally, our help assistant (bottom right), answers from our own help pages. Or read them yourself.
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Set-up guides
M3U, Xtream Codes, Jellyfin and the TV guide.
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FAQ
The questions people ask most.
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Help A–Z
71 topics, from AirPlay to XMLTV.
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Support
Email a person. Usually within two working days.
Made for the
way you watch.
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Cord-cutters
Already have a provider? Give it a home that feels native.
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Expats and international viewers
Your provider’s channels, sorted by country, in your language.
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Sports fans
Multiview, Catch Up and reminders for match days.
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Hotels, holiday lets, bars and gyms
PIN locks, set-up-once sync and a clean player for every screen.
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Families
Parental PIN, Face ID, SharePlay and a Pro purchase you share.
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Jellyfin and home-server users
Jellyfin built in, plus your tuner playlists and XMLTV guide.
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Churches and small broadcasters
Give viewers one link and your HLS stream plays natively.
Hectic TV is a media player only. It doesn’t include, sell or recommend any channels, playlists or streams; the only content it offers itself is five openly licensed sample films and public-domain titles from the Internet Archive. Add only content you have the right to watch.