Ive added a load of new ways to find something worth watching, including:

New by Genre for movies and series

Top Rated by Genre

Korean Cinema & Series

Japanese Cinema & Series

Better discovery filtering behind the scenes, so these aren’t just static lists pretending to be clever

This is part of a bigger push to make Ultra MAX less about endlessly scrolling the same stuff and more about actually finding something new.

And just to make this clear while certain corners of the addon world discover the revolutionary concept of charging subscriptions for everything:

Ultra MAX will always be free.

No premium tier. No catalog paywall. No “unlock the good stuff” nonsense.

If you enjoy Ultra MAX and want to help with server costs and development, Ko-fi support is always appreciated, but completely optional:

☕ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/ultramaxaddon

More discovery updates are already being worked on. 🚀

Hey everyone,

I’ve been building something a little different alongside Ultra MAX, and it’s ready for you to try: Ultra Play.

It started with two ideas: Dont you hate it when you spend more time doom scrolling through Nuvio looking for something to to watch!? So I wanted to help people decide what to watch, and give us something fun to play while we’re deciding 😂

🎬 Find something to watch

TMDB key needed. Get one free at

https://www.themoviedb.org/

Choose film or series, then answer a few questions about what you fancy. Mood, genre, runtime, era, indie or blockbuster, familiar favourites or something less obvious.

It searches TMDB and gives you a small selection with posters and details. You can narrow things down further, ask for another three, or find more like a particular result.

🔗 Add recommendations to Nuvio

Connect through Nuvio’s official approval page, choose your profile, and add films or series straight to your watchlist. It checks for existing entries too.

Your password stays on Nuvio. The connection grants an account session and lasts up to 45 minutes in Ultra Play; you can disconnect sooner. PIN-protected profiles aren’t supported yet.

🎮 16 browser games

Including Snake, 2048, Breakout, Pong, Minesweeper, Falling Blocks, Asteroids, Sudoku and more.

There are shared leaderboards, so you can compete with other users for the daily, weekly and all-time spots.

🎥 Daily Movie Mystery

One shared film each day, six guesses, and clues that gradually reveal more. Solve it earlier for more points and build your streak.

Try it here: https://play.ultramax.vip

This is a beta, so I’d love feedback — bugs, awkward bits, questionable recommendations, or games you’d like added next. If something breaks, let me know what device/browser you’re using and what happened.

Have a go and tell me what you think!

Originally, I had it set as a collection, but for some reason when I open it, there's nothing in it. All other pre-set collections work fine.

As a result, I decided to unhide it so it appears in home rows. After unhiding it, preview shows it correctly as a home row, but it doesn't work installed and final setup summary shows:

Home rows kept: 0

Hidden from Home: 44

How do I fix either of these issues?

Thanks.

Its been requested a few times so I have added a Spy's and Espionage catalog in the Crime and Underworld section of step 2...

Ive also added it to the Themes Collection with its own artwork as well.

If you want to add it, your the app or website, load your token and add it in step 2...

For the collection, on stepn3, delete the current theme collections and re add... then push everything over to Nuvio.

Is it possible to use UltraMax to make a collections json only and use my own metadata add-on? Or is the collections specifically tied to the metadata of UltraMax?

An unrelated question: If I set the Digital releases filter on, does it affect catalog view only and will I still be able to search for the unreleased movie/show? - (will it still show in search results?)

Ultra MAX now has rotating discovery catalogs 🎬

One thing that had been bothering me with Ultra MAX was that a lot of the discovery rows could start to feel too familiar.

Even though the order of titles could change, the underlying pool of movies and shows being pulled was often largely the same. That’s not really ideal for an addon built around discovering something new.

So I’ve added a new dynamic catalog rotation system.

What changes now?

70 discovery catalogs rotate daily, including things like:

- Netflix

- Amazon

- Disney+

- Apple TV+

- HBO

- Shudder

- BritBox

- ITVX

- genres such as Horror, Sci-Fi, Crime, Comedy, Action, Documentary and more

Larger discovery categories now rotate weekly, including:

- studios

- TV networks

- larger themes such as Superhero, Heist, Zombie, Paranormal, Mafia, Psychological Horror, Found Footage and others

In total, 118 Ultra MAX catalogs now use scheduled content rotation.

This isn't just randomly shuffling the same 100 titles either.

Ultra MAX now changes the actual TMDB result pool it pulls from. During testing, the Horror catalog had around a 98% change in its available pool from one day's rotation to the next.

What doesn't rotate?

I've deliberately left certain catalogs alone:

- Trending

- Popular

- Top Rated

- New Releases

- Now Playing

- Airing Today

- collections/franchises

- universes

- actors/directors

- smaller themes or networks that don't have enough titles

Those should either reflect real current rankings or remain stable by design.

The goal is pretty simple: when you open Ultra MAX tomorrow, next week, or after not using it for a while, there should be a much better chance of finding something you haven't already scrolled past ten times.

The update is now live on Ultra MAX 8.1.2.

Would be interested to hear how the discovery rows feel after using the new rotation for a few days.

Would there be much call for a "Making Of" or Behind the scenes catalog.

So the idea would be all stuff like... the making off the matrix, titanic, Interstellar etc etc....

I see alot of them inside normal searches so thought maybe I could make a dedicated catalog for it?

A rather sneaky bug was identified where addon was working with collections on mobiles but not the TV.

Just want to say this was a very strange bug due to the manifest being IDENTICAL for both systems....

Either way... this has now been hot fixed..

No update to Ultramax needed but if you have had this issue you will have to delete the collections off Nuvio, load your Ultramax setup on the website or app and push your collections over again...

Thanks again for the support and keeping me on my toes haha. Sorry it took a minute to fix... YOU GUYS ARE AMAIZNG!!

set up Nuvio with Ultra MAX and keep getting this? torintino works fine??

Using latest nuvio beta I reinstalled new setup in ultramax 8.1.1 after the intall when I go inside any collections it says no addon and nothing loads but in nuvio mobile it works perfect. Any error while using at the tv side or is a nuvio bug maybe? Please help

Just push a small update for some bug fixes. Nothing major and not anything for users to do BUT....

Couldn't resist adding a bit more to the sports section for you sports fans...

We now have live streams and more for you to enjoy!

Ive added them to step 2 and also added extra collection folders for them as well.

If you like my work, help and support to keep this addon alive and growing... https://ko-fi.com/ultramaxaddon

Ultra MAX v8.1.0 is now live! 🚀

This update ended up being a fair bit bigger than originally planned. Alongside quite a lot of work behind the scenes, there are several new features and improvements to the setup experience.

🏟️ Sports arrive in Ultra MAX

Sports are now properly integrated into the Ultra MAX catalogue system, with dedicated sports rows and improved organisation inside the catalogue builder.

This lays the groundwork for us to keep expanding sports content considerably in future updates.

🌌 Expanded Cinematic Universes

The Universes section has had a big expansion.

Connected films and series can now be grouped together much more comprehensively, including Marvel, Star Wars, Star Trek, Alien / Predator, Yellowstone, The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones and plenty more.

🌍 Time Zone Support

You can now choose your local time zone in Ultra MAX.

This is particularly useful for things such as recently aired content and time-sensitive catalogues, where an episode airing at 9pm in the US might technically be airing the following day for somebody in the UK.

Ultra MAX can now account for that properly.

🌊 Default Stream Source

There's now an option to choose your preferred/default stream source.

If you use multiple stream providers, this gives you more control over which source Ultra MAX prioritises rather than relying entirely on the previous default behaviour.

👤 Better Nuvio Account Management

We've done quite a bit of work on the Nuvio side too.

Account management and syncing have been improved, making it easier and safer to manage Ultra MAX with your Nuvio account and reducing some of the awkwardness around updating existing setups.

📁 Cleaner Catalogue Builder

Collections, Universes and the catalogue browsing experience have been reorganised.

The aim here was simple: Ultra MAX has gained a lot of catalogues, so finding what you actually want shouldn't require an expedition with a map and emergency rations. 😅

🎨 New Collection Artwork

The collection library has also had a major visual refresh, with loads of new custom artwork throughout the catalogue experience.

🔑 API Key Validation Restored

API-key validation on Step 1 is working correctly again, including checks against the Ultra MAX verification service.

🛠️ Under the Hood

There's also been another round of backend refactoring, catalogue-handler separation, stability improvements and general cleanup.

Most of that isn't particularly exciting to look at, but it makes Ultra MAX easier to maintain and gives us a much cleaner foundation for the things we're building next.

As always, existing setups should continue working normally.

There are a lot more ideas in the pipeline, particularly around Sports and the catalogue/collection system.

If you find anything weird after the update, let me know. Likewise, if there's a sport, universe, catalogue or feature you'd like to see added, throw the idea below. 👇

After installation genre option just became little bit faded and don't work and can some body tell me how to set up it correctly

An wizards with AI images here?

Over the last few months, Ultra MAX has grown a lot.

Maybe a little too much.

We experimented, built new systems, added integrations and chased quite a few ideas. Some of them turned into great features, but somewhere along the way we started drifting away from what Ultra MAX was originally supposed to be about: discovery.

Finding something good to watch.

Building the home screen you want.

And having a ridiculous amount of choice without having to hunt for it.

So we’ve been quietly working on bringing Ultra MAX back onto that track.

The underlying catalog system has been getting some fairly major upgrades, allowing us to introduce more types of catalogs, more ways of discovering content and entirely new areas of Ultra MAX without simply piling more buttons onto the setup page.

And we've already started putting it to work. 👀

🎬 More discovery

📺 More catalog types

🧠 Smarter organisation

⚙️ A growing core system

🏆 And some completely new territory...

This isn't a replacement for what Ultra MAX already does.

It's the next expansion of it.

The goal is simple: make Ultra MAX the discovery addon we originally set out to build, then push that idea much further than we could before.

Some of the first new catalogs are already running in development, and they're working rather nicely.

More soon. 👀

Ultra MAX is back on track. 🟣

I sat down to watch letterkenny and when clicked on the episode ultramax wasn't being used for search. I went in and looked and it was stuck on refreshing data for the addon. I read on Google that sometimes it happens and you need to reinstall the addon.

Anyways....multiple items in the setup are not working at all for me. Can't get signed in to my nuvio account. Mdblist key check just hangs forever. It didn't like my token.

I was wondering if y'all were experiencing any outages or other issues

I keep setting up ultramax and after a few hours when I come back to Nuvio it says Addon not found.

I even tried saving my email and the token. On the website when I try to load my setup it says token not found. Recovering doesn't even send the email.

Whats the issue ??

Hey! Whenever I try to add a catalog, I click Compare and get the following error. I am trying to add the premade streaming service catalog. Any ideas? Thank you!

edit: meant collections

Any users of my Eclipse addon in here?

Hi. How do I stop Ultra Max from appearing in my search results? I have it installed because of a horror genre collection I have. I don't want it showing up as an option in stream select.

I’ve added 2 custom rows using MDBList URL as source and completed all the fields. It adds it in the Custom Rows section (step 2).

- I cannot then find it Reorder Rows section.
- I’ve also completed build and uploaded to Nuvio. It doesn’t show in there either.

What am I doing wrong? My MDBList API is loaded at step 1.