What has changed.

Features

• Many more file and codec types now play
• VP9 decodes on the video hardware rather than the processor
• Chapters read from Blu-ray discs
• Drop a video on the Mac window to play it
• Live TV subscriptions and drives sync between devices, alongside servers
• Home can be asked to read again, by pull and from a control
• Home says which source could not be reached

Fixes

• Short clips with a single keyframe now open
• Lock Screen and Control Center name the show under the episode
• Home no longer reads as empty when a server is offline
• Disc images can be picked in File ▸ Open…

Features

• AV1 and VP9 files play through software decoding where needed
• Extend support for ISO files
• Network shares: SMB, NFS, FTP, FTPS, FTPES and SFTP
• Support for UPnP and DLNA
• Open streams from a link
• Scrubbing previews
• Favourited content now shown on home
• Recent searches redesigned
• Collections shown in media details

Fixes

• Mac window can no longer be dragged narrower than the layout
• Subtitles work on transcoded content
• Correctly identify all supported file types in Finder

New

• Scrubbing previews, made on the device, so they work offline and ask nothing of your server.
• Download at a smaller size from Plex, Jellyfin and Emby, not just Silo.
• AV1 films play on devices with no AV1 support of their own.
• Disc rips play: an .iso, VIDEO_TS or BDMV folder opens as the film inside it.
• Old rips open: Windows Media, RealMedia, DivX 3, 3GPP, .vob, MXF and raw video files.
• Top Shelf says which season a tile is part way through, and opens on the episode you left off.

Fixed

• A converted download showed no progress and looked stuck, so it got cancelled while it was working.
• A film played silent when its chosen audio track could not be used, with a good one beside it.
• Thumbnails from an HDR film were washed out, and Dolby Vision films had none.
• What a drive listed depended on which other video apps were installed.
• Search: recent searches were drawn over one another, and Clear All could not be reached.

New

• Play five Pro titles for free, to find out whether you need Pro at all on your own library.
• Auto-advance carries on into the next season.
• Leaving an episode lands on the title page of the episode you were in.
• The showcase says when an episode first aired.
• The Lock Screen, Control Centre and CarPlay name the episode rather than the show it belongs to.

Fixed

• Up Next: the countdown read a huge number instead of the seconds left.
• Up Next: Play Now replayed the episode that had just finished.
• Up Next: a crash when a card was proposed while one was already up.
• Up Next: Cancel brought the card straight back, and Play Now then did nothing.
• Playback failed after several back-ten-seconds presses in a row.
• The showcase: the runtime and genre fell off the end of the line.
• The showcase: writing over bright artwork was unreadable.
• Runtimes are rounded rather than truncated.
• The Play button says Play rather than the runtime.
• The episode name is no longer repeated in the player.

New

• A compact card size.
• MPEG and LPCM audio decoders.
• The showcase: choose what it shows.
• A light appearance, designed rather than inverted.

Fixed

• Search matches the start of a word rather than the middle of one.
• A placeholder waits before it is drawn, so a fast search no longer flashes one.
• Filtering a person’s page or the search results no longer snaps back to the top.
• An episode with no description of its own no longer borrows the series’.
• Faster launch and search on large IPTV subscriptions.
• Swiping back closes into the card the page was opened from.

New

• ASS and SSA subtitles are drawn.
• A local file states its own runtime and carries its quality badges.
• A file on your own machine plays without Pro.

Fixed

• A Dolby Vision Profile 10 copy is identified correctly.
• The media details page slid in over its own skeleton.

New

• MPEG, M2TS and MTS containers open.
• APAC soundtracks pass through untouched.

New

• Redeem a promo code from inside the app.

Fixed

• A device name with a curly apostrophe (’) was mismatched on Jellyfin and Emby, which expect a straight one (’).
• The theme tune kept playing after leaving the media page.
• Animations tightened throughout.

The first release.

New

• Plex, Jellyfin, Emby and Silo, as many of each as you run, all connected at once and merged into one library.
• Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and WebDAV shares, with no media server anywhere in it.
• Xtream Codes live TV, with the full guide.
• Files already on the machine, opened from the Finder or from the Files app.
• MKV, Dolby Vision, HDR10+, TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio, played as they are.
• Downloads, offline playback, Spotlight and Handoff.
• One app for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Mac, bought once.