Velora Player
Velora Player

Your IPTV service,
finally worth watching.

Velora Player takes the Xtream or M3U subscription you already pay for and renders it the way it should have looked all along — a real library, with posters, a live guide, and the episode you left half-finished waiting on every device you own.

Coming soon to the App Store and Apple TV.

iPhone & iPad Apple TV iCloud sync No account needed
Bring your own service

Three fields, then it's just television.

Velora is a player, not a provider. You supply the subscription you already have; Velora does the tedious part — reading the playlist, matching the guide, and turning ten thousand unsorted entries into something you can actually browse.

1

Connect your playlist

Paste an Xtream Codes server, username and password — or point Velora at an M3U URL with an optional XMLTV guide. Add as many playlists as you like and switch between them at any time.

2

Velora builds the library

Channels, films and series are pulled once, sorted into their folders and cached on the device. Posters, descriptions, ratings and episode lists come along with them. Later launches read the cache instead of the network.

3

Watch on anything Apple

Start a film on the iPhone, finish it on the Apple TV. Playlists, favourites, My List and resume points travel over iCloud — no sign-up, no password to remember, nothing on anyone's server.

What's inside

Built for the way IPTV actually behaves.

Real playlists are messy: half the films arrive as Matroska, the guide is gzipped XML, and the channel order makes sense to nobody. Velora was written against that reality, not against a demo feed.

Five ways to watch live

List, Cards, Zap grid and a full timeline Guide — each one a genuinely different way of finding a channel. Every device remembers its own choice, because what suits a phone in one hand rarely suits a television across the room.

A guide that fills itself in

XMLTV data is downloaded, unzipped and matched to your channels automatically — including the compressed feeds most providers ship. What's on now, what's on next, and how far through it you are.

Films and series, properly

Posters, synopses, cast, ratings, trailers and full episode lists — folders you can browse, and a Home screen of shelves assembled from what's actually in your playlist. A shelf with nothing real behind it is dropped, never padded out.

Two engines, so it plays what you're sent

Apple's player where it shines — hardware decode, AirPlay, Picture in Picture, less battery. Everything it refuses, a bundled libVLC takes instead: Matroska, AVI, bare MPEG-TS. Velora picks per stream and you never see the switch. Subtitle and audio track selection, Fit / Fill / Stretch / Zoom, and live audio that survives a locked screen.

iCloud, not an account

Playlists, favourites, My List and resume points mirror through your own iCloud. There is no Velora account and no Velora server. Not signed in? The app simply runs on local state — a supported way to use it, not a broken one.

A real Apple TV app

Not a stretched phone layout — its own navigation, built for the Siri Remote, with a Billboard catalogue, a folder-panel guide, and a Top Shelf row above the icon showing what you'd resume or zap to next.

Passwords in the Keychain

Provider credentials go to the iOS Keychain, never into a settings file and never off your device except through iCloud Keychain — which is also how your Apple TV signs in without you typing a password on a remote.

Fast on the second launch

The catalogue is cached, so Velora opens into your library instead of a spinner. A large Xtream panel is downloaded once and refreshed in the background, not re-fetched every time you open the app.

Search that spans everything

One field across channels, films and series — on the phone and on the television. Plus favourites, a My List you curate yourself, and resume points on everything you've started.

Privacy by construction

There's no server to trust.

Most of privacy policy writing is describing what a company does with your data. Velora's is short, because the app has nowhere to send any. It talks to your provider and to Apple's iCloud — and that's the whole list.

  • No Velora account. Nothing to register, nothing to delete.
  • No analytics, no trackers, no ad SDKs. No third-party code watching what you play.
  • Your credentials stay yours. Keychain on the device, iCloud Keychain between your devices. We never receive them.
  • Your viewing history is never uploaded to us. Resume points sync through your own iCloud, encrypted by Apple.
  • No content of our own. Velora hosts, supplies and resells nothing. Every stream comes from the provider you chose.

The full text is on the privacy page.

One library, three screens.

Universal purchase — buy once, use everywhere.

iPhone

The whole library in a pocket, with background audio for live channels when the screen locks.

iPad

Room for the guide to breathe — the timeline and the poster grids at the size they were drawn for.

Apple TV

A native tvOS app with Top Shelf, remote-first navigation and a catalogue built for a ten-foot view.

Questions

The things people ask first.

Does Velora come with channels or films?
No — and it never will. Velora is an empty player until you connect a playlist. It supplies no channels, no films, no trial accounts and no lists of providers. What you watch, and whether you are entitled to watch it, is entirely between you and the service you subscribe to.
Which playlist formats does it take?
Xtream Codes panels (server address, username, password) and standard M3U / M3U8 playlist URLs, each with an optional XMLTV guide — plain or gzipped. You can keep several playlists connected at once and switch between them.
Why does it need a second video engine?
Because Apple's player cannot open Matroska, AVI or a bare MPEG-TS stream, and that is what most panels actually serve — nearly every film arrives as an .mkv. Velora bundles libVLC for those and uses Apple's player everywhere it works, since it brings hardware decode, AirPlay, Picture in Picture and better battery life. The app chooses per stream; you just press play.
Do I need to sign in?
Not to Velora. There is no Velora account, because there is no Velora server. You sign in to your provider, and those credentials go straight into the device Keychain. If you're signed in to iCloud, your playlists and progress follow you between devices; if you're not, everything still works locally.
How does the Apple TV get my playlist?
Through iCloud. Add the playlist once on your iPhone and the Apple TV picks it up, reading the password from iCloud Keychain so you never type it on a remote. If that item hasn't arrived, the TV asks for the password in a single field rather than making you re-enter the whole thing — and you can set up on the TV directly if you don't own an iPhone.
What will it cost?
Pricing is not final yet. Velora is a one-off purchase rather than a subscription, and it's a universal app — buy it once and it's on your iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. Leave your address below and we'll tell you the moment it's on the App Store.

Coming soon to the App Store
and Apple TV.

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