NEW • Browse and switch channels without leaving playback • On Apple TV, changing channel shows where you landed, and the next one each way • Go from a title to the rest of its library • Group libraries by source in Settings, and hide or show a whole source at once • Watched episodes now start collapsed, so the next one comes first FIXED • Connecting to a network share (SMB) with the network unavailable could crash the app • Removing watch progress on Plex now sticks instead of the title returning to Continue Watching • Marking an episode unwatched no longer undoes itself when you reopen the show • With SIMKL connected, a server reporting a title as unwatched no longer removes it from your SIMKL history • MPEG program stream video (.mpg and .vob) now plays • IPTV sources listing one film twice now show which quality each copy is • Library keeps your place when you come back from a title • Picture in Picture no longer stays greyed out in the player • A source you removed no longer appears in a title's Sources list • On Apple TV, Home no longer jumps back to the top when it refreshes • On iPhone, the Play button no longer gets cut off, and Sources is no longer hidden behind the play button • On iPhone and iPad, Home now scrolls when you swipe on the Featured artwork • Pulling down on Home now refreshes it FASTER • Hidden libraries no longer slow down startup

IMPROVED • Faster startup: Home appears without waiting for your whole catalog to load • Library opens faster on large libraries • Episode cards show the runtime on the thumbnail FIXED • Episodes that showed a blank tile now find a thumbnail • Trailers and extras now appear when your server or share has them

NEW • Channel numbers from your provider • Live TV opens in your provider's channel order, and remembers your sorting • Pin the Live TV categories you watch, and browse the rest by level IMPROVED • Categories match your provider's own, in their order • The TV guide follows the same channel order • Channel lists and the guide load faster • Channel cards now refresh together, keeping Live TV smooth • The app stays responsive while it loads details from your server and saves your progress • Categories, channels and access limits are one Live TV screen in Settings • Detail pages settle in place instead of shifting as information arrives • Live TV marks the category filter when it is showing only your pinned categories FIXED • Channel names are no longer shortened • Quality badges are read from the channel itself • A channel in two categories now appears in both • Guide times are correct for more providers • The Next button no longer disappears while you add a source, and setup says what is missing • Playlist and server addresses work without typing http:// • Setup no longer stalls on its last step • Syncing a large library could freeze the app for several seconds • A category filter set to a whole group no longer clears itself • Categories with a slash in their name now list their channels • The rating prompt no longer interrupts a series you are part-way through • Live TV and the guide appear as soon as the app opens, instead of after a sync • Showing only your pinned categories no longer empties the category row • Playing something right after opening the app no longer fails to find it • Access limits stay in force even if their settings cannot be read

NEW • Customization options for the hero IMPROVED • Better stability in Spectati Media Engine • Context menus and icons are more consistent • Sync now shows a more representative status • Large playlists load much faster and TV guides use far less memory • Adult categories in M3U playlists are now recognised and gated, with per-source corrections FIXED • Plex now correctly shows ratings, and favourites set in Plex arrive in Spectati • Large libraries no longer stop syncing partway through • A library your account cannot open no longer asks you to re-enter your password • Signing in to a second account on the same server no longer signs the first one out • Playback progress now reaches Plex when a title finishes • Direct streams are no longer reported as transcodes • Un-watching on Plex no longer leaves the old resume point behind • Live channels grouped as "Movies" or "Series" stay in Live TV • A rejected IPTV login no longer empties the channel list • TV guide times are correct for guides that publish in UTC • Guides that arrive as several combined files now import completely • Files holding two episodes now show both episode numbers • Shows from very large playlists no longer open to an empty screen • Playlists that use #EXTGRP, or that set a user agent per channel, now load correctly • On Mac, the prompt to unlock your providers no longer opens partly off-screen

Arrange it the way you watch. Group your Library the way your server is organised, save the filters you keep coming back to, and decide how posters, rows and tabs look. NEW • In the Library, group by library or by source – and filter to a single server • Save a set of filters under a name and come back to it in one tap • Choose how posters look – titles underneath, a second line, and three sizes • Hide the tabs you do not use, reorder them, and pick the one the app opens on • Keep a library off Home, or hide it everywhere • Subtitles and audio are remembered per show FIXED • Plex and Jellyfin could reject a correct sign-in – a server shared with you, or an account with no password • A server that answers slowly could be given up on before it replied • On Plex, Continue Watching and Next Up showed a frame from the episode instead of the show it belongs to • A large Library could freeze the app for a few seconds each time it reloaded • A download paused in the moment just after it started could carry on regardless • Recently Added could leave out new titles another row had already shown – or go missing altogether • On Plex, artwork could disappear when you came back to the app, and never appeared on the Top Shelf • A Plex library could stop syncing part way through, leaving titles missing • A channel you had hidden could still turn up in system search on iPhone, iPad and Mac Plus playback rules per source, Home row length and style, a server address you can type without the http:// part, and one place to put every choice back.

FIXED • Adding a source could freeze the app IMPROVED • Faster initial loading • Updated dependencies

Nineteen more languages. NEW • Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Croatian, Czech, European Portuguese, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Latin American Spanish, Romanian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese FIXED • On Apple TV, the app could quit during setup • On Apple TV, the remote could stop responding after a film ended and you went back to Home

Small fixes, mostly for Mac. FIXED • On Mac, the player's buttons did nothing in full screen — close, full screen, AirPlay and the menus respond again • On Mac, Spectati held on to memory the system needed, and now gives it back when the Mac runs short • Updating your library uses less memory

Mostly fixes — including a crash when connecting to a network share. FIXED • Adding or streaming from a network share (SMB) could crash the app • Sound could keep playing after you closed the player • Pressing Menu or Back part-way through a scrub left playback paused instead of resuming • Your place in a film could jump backwards after a seek • Watched progress could be reported as saved when it was not • The audio and version pickers could show a track that was not the one playing • Everyday file errors were reported as "Local storage was reset because it was unreadable." • When two servers asked to be trusted at once, the second was never asked again that session • A Jellyfin or Emby library could look empty after a request went out without signing in • Playlist errors could record account details in logs • 7.1 and other less common surround layouts were sent to the wrong speakers • A damaged file could crash playback instead of moving past the bad moment FASTER • The app reaches Home sooner • The TV guide stops rewriting data that has not changed

Home now learns what you like. Give anything a Like or mark it Not For Me, and your recommendations follow — including a row built from the things you liked. With a subscription, your ratings follow you over iCloud. NEW • Like and Not For Me on any film or show, from the long-press menu or the detail screen • Nine curated rows on Home, reshuffled Daily, Weekly or Never — you choose in Settings • Series in an IPTV playlist are gathered into shows with seasons and episodes • Include and exclude terms now cover films and series, and work on Xtream sign-ins FASTER • Home scrolling on Apple TV is much smoother • Big libraries, search, Channel Manager and the TV guide stay responsive on catalogues with tens of thousands of items FIXED • On Apple TV, Home no longer pulls focus back to the rows when you move up to the tabs • A Live TV change that fails to save no longer blocks the ones after it • When two sources carry the same film, removing one no longer takes the film with it • A source that fails to sync no longer empties its rows for the rest of the session • A share that goes offline mid-playback fails in seconds instead of leaving the player waiting • On Mac, the screen no longer sleeps part-way through a film Plus a long list of fixes across playback, live TV, downloads and sync.

Spectati is now free to use. Browsing, live TV and playback need no account and no subscription, with up to two sources connected at a time. A subscription lifts that limit and adds full quality playback, offline downloads, and your IPTV provider's catch-up and on-demand catalogue. NEW • Four sample films play from the Home screen before you connect anything • SMB, WebDAV and SFTP shares, with no media server needed • Emby libraries (beta), alongside Plex and Jellyfin • User profiles on Apple TV, each with its own watch history • Downloads grouped by show and season • Keyboard shortcuts and menu bar commands on Mac and iPad, and Now Playing everywhere Setup now happens inside Home, so nothing stands between opening the app and watching something. Large catalogues load faster, difficult channels hold on longer, and a long list of fixes came with the rest.