Your TV has never looked this good.
All your libraries and all your live TV, together in one app. Emby, Jellyfin and IPTV — one card for every title, the best copy from the fastest server, and live TV that simply keeps playing.
01 — Live TV & catch-up
StreamHeal™
by Nomad Code Labs
Other players give up. betterTV plays on.
IPTV streams break. Servers drop the connection, send scenes again and leave holes in their archives. Most players answer with a black screen and “reconnecting…”. StreamHeal catches those faults before they reach your screen. As far as we know, no other player does this.
No gap between programmes.
A catch-up programme ends, the next one begins — a quiet “Now: …” and you keep watching.
Skips land exactly.
Back or ahead in catch-up, you land where the time line says — not somewhere in the same minute.
Even the wait looks good.
While a channel opens you see the programme's own picture and the channel's logo.
02 — Your library
One title. Every copy.
The same film on Emby in 4K, on Jellyfin in 1080p and on your IPTV panel? betterTV shows one card. Play takes the best picture — and, among equals, the server that measures fastest to your TV.
Every season. One ribbon.
All episodes flow in one ribbon that opens on the episode you are on. The next one to air waits at the end with its date.
- Spin-offs and the whole series family
- Film universes in release order — “You are here”
- Mark a whole run watched at once
Watched means watched. Everywhere.
betterTV keeps its own record of what you've seen and marks it on every Emby and Jellyfin server that has the series. A thumbs down takes a title out of every suggestion, on every copy.
- One Watchlist on every screen
- Alerts when a title on your list arrives
03 — Live TV
A guide that repairs itself.
Provider guides are full of gaps, overlaps and zero-length shows. betterTV fixes them, fills the holes from a second guide, gives programmes their pictures — and lets a channel without listings borrow another's.
The best version, live.
Panels list one station many times — HD, RAW, 4K. betterTV plays the best one, up to the quality you choose.
No tuner needed.
Ask on any TV; your Mac saves the programme from the archive after it airs, one at a time, and every TV plays it.
Catch-up, in order.
Queue programmes from the guide; each one leaves the list once you've seen it.
Pick up live TV where you left it.
What you began live or in catch-up waits for you on Home until the provider's archive lets it go. The guide shows how far you watched every programme.
04 — Everything else
Everything betterTV does.
Sources
- Emby & JellyfinQuick Connect, or paste any server or web address
- Xtream Codes & M3UPaste any panel, playlist or stream link
- XMLTV guidesLink channels; gaps filled from the provider
- Your server sees itWhat you play shows in Emby and Jellyfin too
- PlexIn development
Discovery
- For YouYour library, ratings and taste, blended
- More like thisWith the reason — “Same director”
- Coming & newWhat arrived, what is coming, what is out
- Library browser4K, genre, unwatched — page by page
Title pages
- Cast & crewFilmographies with what you own marked
- TrailersBehind the page or full screen
- Card zoomBack always lands on the card you came from
Player
- Your languages firstAudio and subtitles, synced to every device
- Next episodePlays on after an 8-second countdown
- Smooth motionLive TV at its own frame rate
- Stream detailsCodec, frame rate, sound, live Mbit/s
Search
- One searchFilms, series, channels and the guide
- Voice searchOn Android TV — even on TVs that lack it for apps
- Stays where you wereBack from a title, your search is waiting
Privacy
- Logins stay on your deviceNever sent to the cloud
- Encrypted home syncPair with a code shown on both screens
- Adult content hiddenOff by default, everywhere
Android TV
Play Next and betterTV's own row on the Google TV home screen. Voice search.
Mac
Chromecast and AirPlay, a menu-bar player, and the recorder for every TV in your home.
Apple TV
The same library and lists, with Continue Watching on the Top Shelf.
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About the pictures. Screens are shown for illustration and show betterTV playing sample libraries. The titles, artwork, channel names and logos you see belong to their respective owners and are not part of betterTV.
betterTV contains no films, series, TV programmes or channels and provides none. It plays and organises sources you add yourself — your own media server, a provider you subscribe to, a playlist you are entitled to use. You are responsible for having the right to watch what you add.
StreamHeal™ is a trademark of Nomad Code Labs, LLC. Emby, Jellyfin, Android TV, Google TV, Apple TV, Mac, AirPlay and Chromecast are trademarks of their respective owners. Film and series data from TMDB; betterTV is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.