Kanema plays the IPTV subscription you already pay for: your live channels with a full TV guide and catch-up, and your provider’s films and series if you sign in with Xtream Codes.
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Demo playlist: the films are Blender open movies (credits) and the channels are made up. Kanema comes with nothing to watch.
Kanema on Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro in three and a half minutes, playing our demo channels.
Demo playlist: the films are Blender open movies (credits) and the channels are made up. Kanema comes with nothing to watch.
It plays the ones your provider gives you. Paste the M3U link, or type in the Xtream Codes login, and Kanema fetches your channels, the guide and any films and series. Your login only goes to your provider.
Paste an M3U link, or type in the server, username and password from your provider. Your own Plex, Jellyfin or Emby server works too. On Apple TV, scan a code and type it on your phone instead.
Your channels arrive in their categories, with the guide, and films and series with their artwork.
Change channel with Up and Down on the Siri Remote, or tap one in the guide on your iPhone.
Kanema is written in SwiftUI for Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro, and follows each one’s own conventions: the Siri Remote’s focus on television, the sidebar on iPad and Mac.
Each channel takes two lines: its name, then what’s on now. The time and a bar showing how far in it is sit in one column down the list, with what’s next beside them, so nine or ten channels fit on the screen and every bar lines up.
Your playlists, favourites, Watch later, where you got to, category changes and the parental code follow your iCloud account to every device. They go through your own iCloud, never a Kanema server, and there’s nothing to sign up for.
Kanema opens on the channels, guide and library it saved last time, then refreshes them from your provider in the background.
If a live channel’s picture stops, Kanema notices within two seconds and reopens it, in the player and in every Multi-view screen. If it stops again, the screen says so and offers Reload.
The old stream closes before the next one opens, so changing channel doesn’t trip a provider’s one-connection limit.
Channels play in Apple’s own player, with hardware decoding, whenever the stream allows it. VLC opens the formats it can’t.
On Apple TV, live channels switch your television to their frame rate, and to HDR when they have it.
Nothing in the apps shows adverts or collects analytics.
On Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro, unless it says otherwise. Every picture is the app itself, playing our demo channels.
Kanema keeps the channel you’re watching on the device as it plays: up to an hour on iPhone and iPad, two hours on a Mac and half an hour on Apple TV. Pause, go back over anything you missed, and return to live with one press. Kanema deletes it when you change channel.
Stand the folding iPhone half open while something plays and the picture keeps one half to itself. The other half has its controls and more to watch: More like this, the season’s episodes, what’s on the other channels, and your whole library a tap away. Pick something and it takes the picture’s place. Closed, it’s the iPhone app; open flat, the iPad layout with the sidebar.
Multi-view plays them side by side, with the sound from whichever you choose, and can fill the whole screen. Next time, one press plays the same channels again. Not on Apple Vision Pro yet.
Every channel’s programmes on one grid, from your provider’s listings or a guide address you add, with a line at the current time.
Discover gathers your provider’s films and series by genre, each genre a tile of its posters with how many titles it holds, next to what was added lately and what rates best. The actors who appear most are there too, with every actor from A to Z and everything each one is in. It’s in the sidebar on Apple TV, iPad and Mac, and at the top of Library on iPhone.
Add a media server alongside your playlists and play its films and series straight from it, without converting them. Plex signs in with a code, so your Plex password never reaches Kanema.
Watch programmes that have already been shown, on any channel your provider records.
Five widgets for iPhone and iPad, also on Apple Vision Pro, drawn in the app’s own colours. Every one opens Kanema where you need it: on the channel, the category or the film.
Set a reminder from the guide and choose how early it goes off: 1, 5, 10, 15 or 30 minutes before. Once the programme is less than six hours away, it counts down on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with a Watch button that puts the channel on.
On iPad, the countdown is on the Lock Screen. Apple TV and Apple Vision Pro don’t have Live Activities.
Kanema opens in a window you can place anywhere in the room and resize, with the same channels, guide and library as on iPad. It plays through VLC, as the other apps do, so MKV and AVI films and transport-stream channels play there too.
A Mac app in its own right, rather than the iPad app in a window. Search channels, films and series from one box, keep every list in the sidebar, and use keyboard shortcuts for the common actions. Picture in picture opens in a window of its own.
In every Apple app unless it says otherwise. Some of these are part of Kanema Pro: see what’s free and what Pro adds.
As an episode ends, the next one is offered with a ten-second countdown. Play it straight away, or cancel and let the credits run.
Line up films to play one after another, in your order. Your queue is the same on all your devices.
Recently watched shows a picture from the moment you left each film or episode, which episode it was and how long is left. Play carries on from there.
Your playlists, favourites, Watch later, progress and category changes match on every device signed in to your iCloud account. Nothing goes through a Kanema server.
Choose between the languages and subtitle tracks a stream carries, or find subtitles from OpenSubtitles from the player.
From an Xtream Codes login or your own server, with plots, artwork and running times. Each one picks up where you stopped.
Connect Trakt and the films and episodes you watch go into your Trakt history. Live channels are never sent.
Tap a name in a title’s cast, or search for it, to see everything that actor is in. When your provider lists the cast.
Mark a film or an episode as watched, or as unwatched to start it again, from its menu.
Channels, films and series come back in one list. Live TV, Films and Series each have a search of their own, and Live TV’s finds categories too.
Favourite channels and whole categories, put favourites under tags of your own, and save films and series to watch later. Each list has a page of its own.
Rename, hide, merge, split and reorder categories, move any of them to the top, and arrange the channels inside them.
A code on the categories you choose. What’s locked stays out of search, the guide and Recently watched until the code is typed.
Send what’s playing to an Apple TV, an AirPlay television or a Chromecast, from iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Keep watching in a corner while you do something else, on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. On a Mac, in a window of its own.
What begins in the next hour on your favourite channels, soonest first, with a bell beside each to be reminded. On iPhone, iPad and Mac.
A notification 1, 5, 10, 15 or 30 minutes before a programme starts, as you choose. Tap it and the channel comes on. Not on Apple TV, which doesn’t show notifications from apps.
Ask Siri to play a channel by name. On iPhone, iPad and Apple TV you can also ask it to carry on with what you were watching.
On Apple TV, live channels switch your TV to their frame rate, and to HDR when they have it, with Match Content turned on in the Apple TV’s settings.
Your channels and what you were watching, across the top of the Apple TV Home Screen.
Match a channel to the right guide entry by hand when your provider gets it wrong, and read more than one guide address as one guide.
Turn Home’s rows on or off and put them in your order. Each device opens where you choose: Home, Live TV, the guide, Films or Series, a category or channel you pick, the page you were last on, or what you were watching.
When something won’t play, it tells you whether the fault is your network or your provider.
English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
There’s no Kanema account because there’s no Kanema server. Your playlists and logins stay on your devices, with passwords in the Keychain. The apps don’t show adverts or collect analytics, and this site doesn’t either. If you connect OpenSubtitles, Trakt or your own media server, the app talks to it directly, and the privacy policy lists what goes where.
You add your playlist the first time the app opens.
No. Kanema plays the playlist you add from your own provider, and nothing else. Only add services you’re entitled to use.
Apple TV with tvOS 26.1 or later, iPhone and iPad with iOS 26.1 or iPadOS 26.1, Macs with macOS 26.1, and Apple Vision Pro with visionOS 26.1.
Free: one playlist, live TV and catch-up, films and series, search, and today and tomorrow in the guide, with no adverts and no watermarks. Kanema Pro adds iCloud sync, unlimited playlists, pause and rewind live TV, Multi-view, the full guide, reminders and more, on every Apple device on your Apple Account. Plans are available in the app. Free and Pro, feature by feature.
The apps are being tested now. When the App Store listing goes live, the line at the top of this page turns into a link to it.
M3U and M3U8 links, Xtream Codes logins, Plex, Jellyfin and Emby servers, and an HDHomeRun tuner or a Tvheadend server on your home network. An M3U link brings live channels; films and series come with an Xtream Codes login or your own server. Guides are XMLTV, either the one your provider sends or one from an address you add. Adding a playlist, step by step.
No. Open the app, add your playlist and start watching.
It’s stored on your device, in the Keychain, and the app only sends it to the provider or server it belongs to.