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title: "Free and Pro compared · Kanema IPTV player for Apple devices"
description: "What’s free in Kanema, the IPTV player for Apple devices, and what Kanema Pro adds: iCloud sync, unlimited playlists, live TV rewind, Multi-view and the full guide."
url: https://kanema.app/pro
updated: 2026-10-30
---

# Kanema Free and Pro

Free has no adverts and no watermarks, and what’s free stays free. Pro adds the rest, on every Apple device on your Apple Account.

Plans available in the app

Coming soon to the App Store

## Free

One playlist, live TV and catch-up, films and series, search, today and tomorrow in the guide, picture in picture, AirPlay, Trakt, three widgets, Siri and Top Shelf. No adverts and no watermarks.

## Pro

iCloud sync, unlimited playlists, pause and rewind live TV, Multi-view, the full guide, reminders and Live Activities, the TV Guide widget, Handoff and Family Sharing.

## Watching

![The information panel over a live channel on Apple TV: Aurora Cinema, with catch-up for 7 days, the film Charge from 14:30 to 15:30 with 55 minutes left and Tears of Steel next, a line about the film, and badges for H.264 and VLC.](https://kanema.app/media/apple/pro-details@small.jpg)

What’s on and the stream’s details, as a channel plays on Apple TV

![The Actors page on Apple TV: 17 actors, a row of letters to jump to, and actors shown as initials in circles with their names and how many titles each is in.](https://kanema.app/media/apple/pro-actors@small.jpg)

Every actor in your library, on Apple TV

**Watching: what free and Pro include**

| Feature | Free | Pro |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Skip intro and credits (On Plex, Jellyfin and Emby) | Not included | Included |
| Films, series and catch-up | Included | Included |
| Search, Discover and actors | Included | Included |
| Up next, autoplay and the play queue | Included | Included |
| Mark as watched | Included | Included |
| Picture in picture (Not on Apple Vision Pro) | Included | Included |
| AirPlay and Chromecast (iPhone, iPad and Mac) | Included | Included |
| Open in VLC or Infuse (iPhone, iPad and Apple Vision Pro) | Included | Included |
| Subtitle search and size | Included | Included |
| Aspect ratio, speed and sleep timer (Player engine and audio pass-through too, except on Apple Vision Pro) | Included | Included |
| Stream details and format badges (4K, HDR, Dolby Vision and Atmos as they play) | Included | Included |
| Plex, Jellyfin, Emby and home tuners (Each counts as a playlist) | Included | Included |
| Your server’s watched marks and resume points | Included | Included |
| Trakt | Included | Included |

## Live TV

![The player’s controls on iPhone during a live channel: minus 0:31 beside the scrubber, buttons to go back and forward 10 seconds and to pause, and a Go live button.](https://kanema.app/media/apple/pro-rewind@small.jpg)

Pro: Pause and rewind, 31 seconds behind live, on iPhone

![Multi-view on iPad: four animated films playing at once, two by two, each labelled with its channel and programme, and a white ring round the first, whose sound is on.](https://kanema.app/media/apple/pro-multiview@small.jpg)

Pro: Multi-view on iPad, with the sound from the first screen

![Channel categories on iPhone: a Merge button, a filter box, and three categories, Short films, Films and Family, each with its number and a handle to drag it into a new place. Family is marked Hidden.](https://kanema.app/media/apple/pro-categories@small.jpg)

Pro: Arranging categories on iPhone

**Live TV: what free and Pro include**

| Feature | Free | Pro |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pause and rewind live TV (Carry on from the moment you paused) | Not included | Included |
| Multi-view (Up to four channels at once · Not on Apple Vision Pro) | Not included | Included |
| Choose the sound in Multi-view (Not on Apple Vision Pro) | Not included | Included |
| Instant channel change (Where your subscription allows two streams) | Not included | Included |
| Your own categories (Rename, merge and split, in your own order) | Not included | Included |
| Live TV and catch-up | Included | Included |
| Previous channel (Switch category inside the player, too) | Included | Included |
| Reload, and recovery from a frozen channel | Included | Included |
| Hide, lock and favourite categories (With a parental code) | Included | Included |

## Guide

![The TV guide on Apple TV: Favourites, Cinema, Family and Shorts to choose from, six channels down the side and their programmes across from 00:30 to 02:30, with a marker at the time now.](https://kanema.app/media/apple/pro-guide@small.jpg)

The TV guide on Apple TV

**Guide: what free and Pro include**

| Feature | Free | Pro |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The full TV guide (Every day your provider lists) | Today and tomorrow | Included |
| Several guides as one (Fill gaps in one guide with another) | Not included | Included |
| Fix a channel’s guide | Included | Included |
| Guide time offset for each playlist | Included | Included |
| Catch-up’s archive, sorted and searchable | Included | Included |
| Starting soon (The next hour on your favourite channels · Not on Apple TV) | Included | Included |

## Lists and sync

![The iCloud section of Kanema’s Settings on Apple TV: iCloud sync on, then three devices, each with its model, this Apple TV synced just now, an iPhone 17 Pro Max synced a minute ago and a MacBook Pro synced 59 minutes ago.](https://kanema.app/media/apple/pro-sync@small.jpg)

Pro: Your devices, in Settings on Apple TV

![The playlist menu on Apple TV: Demo, ticked, and Demo M3U, each with its mascot, and Add a playlist below. In the free version, the second playlist and Add a playlist carry a lock.](https://kanema.app/media/apple/pro-playlists@small.jpg)

Pro: Switching playlists on Apple TV, in the free version

**Lists and sync: what free and Pro include**

| Feature | Free | Pro |
| --- | --- | --- |
| iCloud sync (Your playlists, favourites and progress on every Apple device) | Not included | Included |
| Playlists (Servers and home tuners included) | One | Unlimited |
| Your devices (Each one, and when it last synced) | Not included | Included |
| A copy in iCloud (Brings your library back if tvOS clears its storage · Apple TV only) | Not included | Included |
| Family Sharing (Everyone in your Family Sharing group) | Not included | Included |
| Favourite tags | Not included | Included |
| Manage from your phone or computer | Not included | Included |
| Backup and restore (Not on Apple TV) | Not included | Included |
| Favourites, Watch later and Recently watched | Included | Included |
| Arrange Home, and what Kanema opens on (Start muted, too) | Included | Included |
| Reset everything | Included | Included |

## Widgets and reminders

![The TV Guide widget: Aurora Cinema, Northlight and Meridian Action, each with the programme on now, its times and a bar showing how far in it is, and what comes next.](https://kanema.app/media/apple/widget-guide@small.png)

Pro: The TV Guide widget

![A Kanema countdown on the Lock Screen: Starting soon, Tears of Steel on Aurora Cinema at 04:00, 16 minutes 54 seconds to go, with a Watch button.](https://kanema.app/media/apple/lock-reminder@small.png)

Pro: A reminder counting down on the Lock Screen

**Widgets and reminders: what free and Pro include**

| Feature | Free | Pro |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reminders (Before a programme starts, from Siri too · Not on Apple TV) | Not included | Included |
| Reminder timings (Not on Apple TV) | Not included | Included |
| Live Activities (A countdown on the Lock Screen · iPhone and iPad) | Not included | Included |
| TV Guide and Coming up widgets (Not on Apple TV) | Not included | Included |
| Page the TV Guide widget, remove a reminder (Not on Apple TV) | Not included | Included |
| Continue watching, On now and Favourite categories widgets (Not on Apple TV) | Included | Included |
| Star a channel from a widget (Not on Apple TV) | Included | Included |
| Controls (In Control Centre · iPhone, iPad and Mac) | Included | Included |

## Devices

![The page for Big Buck Bunny on iPhone, a 2008 animated comedy, 10 minutes long, with a Resume button saying 5 min left and a Watch later button below.](https://kanema.app/media/apple/pro-handoff@small.jpg)

Pro: Picking up a film on iPhone where another device left it

![The Apple TV Home Screen with Kanema’s Top Shelf: Caminandes across the whole screen under Continue watching, above the Settings, a second app and Kanema icons.](https://kanema.app/media/apple/pro-topshelf@small.jpg)

Top Shelf on the Apple TV Home Screen

**Devices: what free and Pro include**

| Feature | Free | Pro |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pick up on another device (Handoff, and Continue from another device) | Not included | Included |
| Siri, Shortcuts and Spotlight | Included | Included |
| Now Playing and media keys (AirPods and the Lock Screen, too) | Included | Included |
| Accessibility (Never part of Pro) | Included | Included |
| Interface text size (Not on Apple TV) | Included | Included |
| Top Shelf and Who’s watching (Apple TV only) | Included | Included |
| Match Content (Apple TV only) | Included | Included |
| Type your playlist on your phone (Apple TV only) | Included | Included |
| The menu bar icon and the Dock menu (Mac only) | Included | Included |
| Open at login, in full screen or in the menu bar (Mac only) | Included | Included |
| Tips, What’s new and Report a problem (Ambient light and a connection test, too) | Included | Included |

Demo playlist: the films are Blender open movies ([credits](https://kanema.app/licences#films)) and the channels are made up. Kanema comes with nothing to watch.

## Getting Pro

Plans are available in the app, through the App Store. One purchase unlocks Pro on every Apple device signed in to your Apple Account, and Family Sharing covers everyone in your family group. Prices will be listed here when Kanema is on the App Store.

Kanema comes with no channels in either version. It plays the playlist you add from your own provider, so you need the right to whatever you watch with it.