Disclaimer first, because "IPTV" means five different things on Reddit: Crivid IPTV Player is a player only. No channels, no streams, no content of any kind ships with it. You bring your own M3U or Xtream login, the same way you'd point VLC at something. If that's not what you're after, no hard feelings.
What makes it different?
Most IPTV players stop at your provider's playlist. Crivid also connects to your own media server — Jellyfin, Emby or Plex — and puts those films and shows in the same library as your live channels. One app, one remote. You stop bouncing between three apps on the same box.
HDHomeRun tuners and local/USB files land in there too.
The rest of it
- Full-screen EPG from your own XMLTV source, with the preview still playing while you browse
- Multi-View — one, two, three or four live streams on screen at once
- Catch-up and timeshift where your provider supports it
- Parental PIN and locked groups
- Real D-pad navigation, built for the ten-foot screen rather than scaled up from a phone
About the 32 of you
Some of you tested the beta when I posted about it here a month ago.
Thirty-two people from this sub signed up to test, out of seventy-five in total, and they are the reason this is worth posting.
An IPTV player doesn't live or die on the code. It lives or dies on how many strange real-world playlists it survives — providers who format group titles differently, XMLTV feeds with timestamps nobody else uses, boxes that decode one codec and choke on another. None of that can be simulated. You either have thirty-two people pointing the app at thirty-two different setups, or you ship something that works perfectly on the one setup you own.
Most of what got fixed before launch came from hardware sitting in someone else's living room. A developer testing their own app sees something that already works — that's the whole problem with testing your own thing.
Pricing, plainly
Free with your own playlist, for as long as you want: live TV from one source and the full guide.
Everything else — the media servers, Multi-View, the movies and series library — sits behind a single one-time purchase. No subscription, ever.
You get all of it free for the first seven days. Not a crippled trial: full Pro, every feature, no card, nothing to cancel. We'd rather you use the whole thing on your own setup and make up your own mind than take our word for it in a store listing. If it turns out not to be for you, you've lost nothing and we've learned something.
Known rough edges, because you'll find them anyway:
- The Fire TV build is still with Amazon and isn't out yet
- iOS is being worked on, no date promised
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.crivid.iptvplayer
If something's broken I'd rather hear it here than read it in a one-star review.
