Your subscription hands you a text file. IPTelvza hands back a catalog.

Yes, and we say so plainly: IPTelvza is a player, not a provider. With no source, the app is empty — that is deliberate, and it is what keeps it independent of every reseller. You connect your M3U playlist or your Xtream Codes credentials, and the app takes care of the rest. To judge before committing to anything, the Sources screen offers a demo source made of public test streams, with no credentials — titles labeled “demo”, with no posters: it is a test bench for the player, not a preview of a catalog.

The app reads M3U playlists, by URL or by file, and Xtream Codes credentials; a QR code does the whole thing in one go. We do not promise “every provider”: nobody can honestly guarantee that. But you pay nothing to find out — the complete player is free: connect your source, start a channel, a movie, an episode, and see whether it all runs. PRO changes nothing about playback.

No. You install it, you add your source, everything works — no sign-up. And a free account unlocks no extra feature: even cloud backup requires PRO. It serves to keep the data of several accounts apart on one device, to manage the account itself, and to carry your data the day you take PRO — backup and sync do require PRO and an account; we would rather write that in plain terms than have you create a login for nothing.

Never to our servers. Your source’s password is kept in your device’s Keychain, marked “this device only”: it is never synced. Your source’s address and your username stay in the app’s local database. None of it is sent to us — including with PRO, whose cloud backup covers only your favorites, your history and your settings.

One exception, which we would rather write down: if you start casting to a Chromecast, the stream address is sent to the receiver, and with most Xtream providers that address contains your username and your password — without them, the TV could not play anything. It is the only data transmitted, it goes through none of our servers, and casting can be switched off entirely in Settings ▸ Playback ▸ “Allow casting”.

The app ships no advertising SDK and no analytics SDK. We do not sell what you watch, so we have no reason to collect it. The details are set out in the privacy policy.

It is a native tvOS app, built from the same code as the iPhone version, with navigation designed for the remote and a place in the Top Shelf — and exactly the same free-tier rules. If your TV is not an Apple TV, send the picture from your iPhone or your iPad over AirPlay or Chromecast. Three differences, and we list them: on Apple TV, a movie or an episode served over HLS (m3u8) does not download — only progressive files can be taken offline, and HLS is the most common format among Xtream providers; the full “History” screen is not there (the “Continue Watching” rail and resume are); and program reminders fire no system notification there, only an alert while the app is open. Conversely, the Apple TV needs neither AirPlay nor Chromecast: it is the receiver. And we show no tvOS screenshot: every image on this page comes from an iPhone.

No. No time-limited account, no ad banner, no counter running down. A freshly installed app starts on the free tier and stays there as long as you buy nothing. The four limits are known up front and do not move: one source, one profile, five upcoming program reminders, and no cloud backup.

There are many, and most of them do play an M3U. The difference is not the length of the feature list: these are native apps — one for iPhone and iPad, one for Apple TV, and the iPad app that installs on Apple silicon Macs — that sort your source into a catalog instead of handing the file back to you, that ship four playback engines and switch to the universal one by themselves when a format cannot be decoded, and that contain neither advertising nor tracking. A web page proves none of that — but the screenshots come from the real app, and the complete player is free so that you can judge for yourself.

Because “free” is usually paid for somewhere else: with advertising, with resold data, or with an app abandoned after six months. Here the essentials are free for good — the whole player, live TV and its guide, the detail pages, favorites, resume, and even offline downloads and recording. PRO does not sell you access to your own source: it adds several sources, several profiles and sync between devices. If you have no need of that, do not pay.

Because those are precisely the features you need when the network is missing, and an app that holds them hostage treats the people who depend on them badly. It is a product decision, written into the code: both features sit on the list of free features, which is read before the app even knows whether you subscribe. They therefore depend on no tier, on none of the four platforms.

IPTelvza is a player: it provides, hosts and resells no content, no channels, no lists, no logos, and it is affiliated with no provider. It plays the source you give it, and nothing else. A source of your own, obtained legally, is required: it is your subscription, taken out with your provider, that determines what you are entitled to watch. The terms of use say it in the same words.

An independent developer, with no outside funding. That is also an answer to the previous question about price: there is no advertising to serve and no data to resell, so the app is paid for by the people who take PRO, and by nobody else. We are not going to promise you a lifespan: nobody can do that honestly. What we can say is that nothing you build inside the app is held prisoner by us — your favorites, your history and your settings stay on your device without any account at all, and the day you stop PRO, nothing is erased.

The app drops back to the free tier immediately and erases nothing on your device. Sources already installed stay in place, active, unhidden, as do your favorites, your history and your downloads. What stops: sync between devices, and the ability to add one more source or one more profile. Subscriptions can be canceled at any time in your Apple Account settings.