Rivulet for Plex
Elegant and Powerful Player
Only for Apple TV
Free
Apple TV
Rivulet is a beautiful, elegant, and fast Apple TV player for the movies and shows you already own and host on your own Plex server. It pairs a calm, cinematic tvOS interface with a custom playback engine built for true home-theater quality. It's inspired by Apple's design and ecosystem, and is purpose built for tvOS.
DESIGNED FOR APPLE TV
A clean, focus-friendly, and Apple-inspired interface with cinematic hero art, fluid poster rows, rich detail pages with cast and crew, and a player with subtitle support for SRT, ASS, and image-based PGS and DVB tracks.
TRUE HDR, HDR10+, AND DOLBY VISION
Dolby Vision (Profile 5 and 8.1), HDR10, HDR10+ dynamic metadata, and HLG, with automatic Match Content so your TV switches into the right frame rate and dynamic range for every title.
IMMERSIVE, LOSSLESS AUDIO
Dolby Atmos passthrough over Dolby Digital Plus, plus direct support for Dolby TrueHD, DTS and DTS-HD MA, FLAC, ALAC, and PCM, with Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital Plus passthrough to your receiver.
DIRECT PLAY, EVEN AT 4K
A purpose-built engine streams high-bitrate 4K HEVC and Dolby Vision straight from your server without unnecessary transcoding, so you keep full quality.
LIVE TV, YOUR WAY
Bring your own HDHomeRun tuners or your own IPTV/M3U playlists and electronic program guide. Rivulet does not provide any channels or content.
YOU BRING THE LIBRARY
Rivulet is a player, not a content service. It requires your own Plex Media Server and the media you have added to it. It does not include, sell, or stream any movies, shows, or channels.
Rivulet is a free, noncommercial project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Plex, Inc.
Ratings & Reviews
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Shows and seasons
• A show's page now lists every season with its poster, episode count and summary.
• Selecting a season opens its own page, with just that season's episodes and extras.
• Extras and special features resume where you left off.
Playback
• Fixed videos failing to play on some home networks.
• Autoplay no longer flashes black between episodes or skips one.
• Playback errors now say what went wrong instead of showing one generic message.
• On the Up Next page, Play Next and Dismiss can be selected, Back returns to the video, and the countdown ring animates.
• Captions are the size Apple TV uses in its own player, and a caption placed left or right stays at that edge.
Browsing and search
• Jump straight to a letter with the new A to Z bar in title-sorted libraries.
• Holding Up or Down keeps scrolling instead of losing your place.
• Home rows follow the libraries you pin to Home on your Plex server, in your sidebar order.
• The collapsed sidebar no longer covers the top row of content or the search field.
• Moving up from search results now reaches the keyboard.
Live TV and Settings
• Live TV guide groups move up and down correctly, and the guide is no longer pushed down by the sidebar.
• New Input Test under Settings, About, which records what your remote actually sends.
• Losing the server now shows a single clear message, and starting playback while it's unreachable offers a retry.
The developer, Bain Gurley, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Bain Gurley
- Size
- 43.4 MB
- Category
- Entertainment
- Compatibility
Requires tvOS 26.0 or later.
- Apple TV
Requires tvOS 26.0 or later.
- Apple TV
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Bain Gurley
