An IPTV player for iPhone and iPad

Live TV in your pocket

Kanema keeps up to an hour of the channel you’re watching, so you can pause and rewind live TV. Multi-view plays two or four channels side by side, with the sound from whichever you choose.

Keep watching in picture in picture while you do something else, or send what’s playing to an Apple TV, an AirPlay television or a Chromecast.

Discover

Discover sits at the top of Library on iPhone, and in the sidebar on iPad. It shows film and series genres as tiles, each with posters from it and how many titles it holds, next to what your provider added lately and what rates best.

Actors are there too: the ones who appear most, every actor from A to Z, and a page for each with everything they’re in. Tap a name in a title’s cast to get there. This needs a provider that lists the cast, and films join in once you’ve opened their page.

Starting soon

Starting soon, in Live TV, lists what begins in the next hour on your favourite channels, soonest first. Tap the bell beside a programme to be reminded when it starts.

Reminders

Set a reminder from the guide and choose how early it goes off, from 1 to 30 minutes before. Tapping it puts the channel on.

Once the programme is less than six hours away, it counts down on the Lock Screen, and in the Dynamic Island on iPhone, with a Watch button.

Your Home, your way

Choose which rows Home shows and drag them into the order you want; your other devices get the same Home through iCloud.

Choose what Kanema opens on, too: Home, Live TV, the TV guide, Films or Series, a category or a channel you pick, the page you were last on, or the film, episode or channel you were watching. Each device keeps its own choice, so the television can open on Live TV while your iPhone opens on Home. On every device but Apple TV, anything that starts playing can start muted.

A queue for film night

Add films to the queue from their pages, put them in order, and press Play. As each one ends, the next is offered with a ten-second countdown, the way the next episode of a series is.

Favourites in groups

Put favourite channels under tags of your own, such as Football, News or Kids, and pick one from the row at the top of Favourites to see only those. A channel can be under more than one, and your tags reach your other devices through iCloud.

Catch-up and your own server

Watch programmes that have already been shown, on any channel your provider records. Add your own Plex, Jellyfin or Emby server alongside your playlists and play its films and series straight from it; Plex signs in with a code, so your Plex password never reaches Kanema.

iPhone Duo

Closed, the folding iPhone gets the iPhone app; open, it becomes the iPad layout with the sidebar, and you stay where you were as you fold and unfold. Stand it half open while something plays and the picture keeps one half, while the other has its controls and more to watch, from More like this to your whole library.

• Kanema on iPhone Duo →

Widgets, controls and Siri

Five widgets for the Home Screen: a TV guide of the channels you choose, your channels with what’s on now, Continue watching, your favourite categories, and Coming up, which counts down to your reminders. Some come in Lock Screen sizes too.

Control Centre gets buttons for Continue watching, the TV guide and a channel you pick, and they work on the Lock Screen and the Action button as well. Ask Siri to play a channel by name or carry on with what you were watching. Kanema needs iOS 26.1 or iPadOS 26.1.

It doesn’t come with channels

Kanema plays the playlist you add from your own provider, and nothing else. Only add services you’re entitled to use.

• What Kanema does →
• Free and Pro →
• The Apple TV app, screen by screen →
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