Add IPTV to Apple TV in about a minute.

Spectati is built for tvOS rather than ported from a phone app, which is what many IPTV players on Apple TV are. That means real Siri Remote gestures, the tvOS focus engine, Top Shelf, a full-screen EPG and a player that direct-plays 4K Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos. It is free to use.

Yes. Add your Xtream Codes server, username and password (from your phone via QR code, so you never type them with the Siri Remote) and Spectati loads your live channels, movies, series and EPG.

Yes. Spectati accepts M3U and M3U8 playlist URLs alongside Xtream Codes logins and Plex and Jellyfin servers. Up to 2 sources run at once free, more with a subscription, and channel curation applies across all of them.

No. The Apple TV shows a QR code. Scan it with your iPhone, fill in your details on the setup page that opens, and they’re sent to the TV over your local network. A phone without a camera can open the address on screen and enter the six-digit code instead. Setup takes about a minute.

Yes. On Apple TV 4K, Spectati passes Dolby Vision, HDR10+, HDR10 and HLG through to your display. Dolby Atmos in Dolby Digital Plus reaches the receiver untouched, TrueHD and DTS play as 5.1 Dolby Digital Plus, and TrueHD Atmos and DTS:X keep their height channels on AirPods, HomePods and Atmos receivers. High-bitrate 4K remuxes direct-play without server transcoding.

Both. Spectati shows a full-screen EPG grid with now & next, live progress on every channel and automatic background refreshes. Catch-up, replaying a programme that has already aired from your provider’s archive, is there too, along with your provider’s films and series if it speaks Xtream. Catch-up and on-demand are subscription features and need a provider that offers them; the guide, live channels and zapping are free.

Yes. A new install carries four real films on the Home screen (Blender open movies streamed from spectati.com), so you can press play on the Apple TV within seconds of installing, with no account, no playlist and no card. One of them is served in HDR, so you can see what full quality looks like on your own television before deciding anything.

Yes. Spectati runs as the current Apple TV user, so switching users on the Apple TV (from Control Center, or at the who’s-watching prompt tvOS 26 shows when the TV wakes) switches Spectati too. Each household member gets their own watch history, Continue Watching, favorites and settings. There are no separate in-app profiles: the Apple TV user is the profile, so each user connects their own providers unless they share an iCloud account.

Yes, with a subscription. Connect a SIMKL or Trakt account, or both, with a short pairing code and Spectati marks finished movies and episodes there and pulls your history back into the app, on Apple TV, iPhone, iPad and Mac. It covers watch history only. If you use Plex or Jellyfin, those servers stay the authoritative record of what you watched there.

Yes. The app is free on Apple TV, iPhone, iPad and Mac, and one subscription covers all four, with Family Sharing for everyone in your family group. With it, favorites, hidden channels, custom ordering and watch progress sync between your devices through iCloud, so the setup you do once follows you.