VortX (0.3.7)

VortX (0.3.7)

A small follow-up to 0.3.6: search fixes from OrigamiSpace, plus you can now choose which file to play from a multi-file magnet. In-place update; nothing resets.

Fixed

• Search from the header works on Mac again. Searching from the home header now opens the Search tab and shows results, instead of doing nothing. This was a long standing macOS bug. Fix contributed by OrigamiSpace (#80).

Added

• Pick a file from a multi-file magnet. Paste a magnet that holds a whole pack (a season, or a folder of videos) and VortX now shows a "Pick a file" list, each video with its name and size, so you choose which one to play instead of only ever getting the largest file. A single-file magnet still plays straight through. On iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. (#81)

Changed

• Smarter search suggestions on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. The suggestion logic Apple TV already used, interleaving movies and series instead of burying one behind the other, now powers search on the touch and Mac apps too. Also from OrigamiSpace.
• Routine CI maintenance (GitHub Actions version bumps).

Install

Mac (.dmg, easiest, never expires). Download VortX-macOS-v0.3.7-ci.dmg, drag VortX into Applications, then clear Apple's one-time quarantine: open it once, click Done, then System Settings > Privacy & Security > Open Anyway (or run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/VortX.app). Full guide: Install on Mac.

iPhone, iPad, Apple TV (sideload the IPA). The IPAs are unsigned, because VortX is open-source and distributed outside the App Store with no Apple Developer ID yet, so you re-sign them yourself with Sideloadly, AltStore / SideStore, or Signulous. No jailbreak. Full guide: Installing on iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV.

Each asset lists a SHA-256 checksum so you can confirm your download matches what the public GitHub Actions workflow built from this code.

VortX (0.3.6)

VortX (0.3.6)

A focused follow-up to the rebrand. The headline: plain-http custom streaming servers now connect on Mac, so a server you reach over Tailscale works the same way it already does on iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV. The vortex "X" is now the real curved mark everywhere, there is a VortX gold theme set as the new default, and Mac and iPhone now wait for every source before auto-playing the best one, the way Apple TV already does. In-place update: your library, add-ons, history, and settings stay exactly as they are.

Fixed

• Custom streaming servers over plain http now connect on Mac. Pointing VortX at your own server reached over Tailscale, or any plain-http address, works on macOS now, matching iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV. The Mac build was the only one still enforcing Apple's default transport security, which blocked everything except a secure (https) or on-device server. No https required. (Issue #58)
• Mac and iPhone now wait for all of your sources before auto-playing. The Watch button holds until every stream add-on has answered (or a few seconds pass), so one press plays the best source across all of them instead of whichever add-on happened to reply first. This already worked on Apple TV. The Quality picker stays open the whole time if you would rather choose yourself.

Changed

• The vortex "X" is now the real curved mark everywhere. The swirling X from the brand is now the app icon, the launch screen, and the wordmark inside the app on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. Inside the app it follows your chosen theme color; the icon and launch screen keep the signature gold.
• A new VortX gold theme, set as the default. A warm gold-on-obsidian palette drawn straight from the brand. Every other theme is still one tap away in Settings, and if you already picked one it stays put.
• A deeper launch animation. The intro now draws the mark in and settles, with "Everything VortXed" underneath, in place of the old spin.
• The app now reads "VortX" everywhere inside it, including the Settings, server, and backup screens that still said the old name.

Install

Mac (.dmg, easiest, never expires). Download VortX-macOS-v0.3.6-ci.dmg, drag VortX into Applications, then clear Apple's one-time quarantine: open it once, click Done, then System Settings > Privacy & Security > Open Anyway (or run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/VortX.app). Full guide: Install on Mac.

iPhone, iPad, Apple TV (sideload the IPA). The IPAs are unsigned, because VortX is open-source and distributed outside the App Store with no Apple Developer ID yet, so you re-sign them yourself with Sideloadly, AltStore / SideStore, or Signulous. No jailbreak. Full guide: Installing on iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV.

Each asset lists a SHA-256 checksum so you can confirm your download matches what the public GitHub Actions workflow built from this code.

VortX (0.3.5)

VortX (0.3.5)

StremioX is now VortX. This release puts on the new name, a new gold-on-obsidian icon, and an animated VortX intro, and it adds Backup & Restore so your settings can travel with you. It is an in-place update: your library, add-ons, history, and settings stay exactly as they are. A handful of player and Apple TV fixes ride along too, including a smarter best-stream picker.

Added

• The app is now VortX. A new name, a new gold-on-obsidian app icon, and an animated VortX launch screen on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. Same app and same account underneath, so nothing resets.
• Backup & Restore on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. In Settings you can save your profiles, theme, and playback preferences to a file and restore them later. Built for the road ahead: your library and watch history always return when you sign in, and this carries your local settings across too. On Apple TV a scan-with-your-phone backup is on the way; for now signing in restores your library there.

Fixed

• The Apple TV "Up Next" prompt shows reliably at the end of an episode. It now takes the corner the moment the credits begin, in place of the old Skip Credits button, and the buttons no longer wrap or look uneven.
• Best stream is smarter: a true remux now beats a merely bigger file. The picker ranks source type (remux over Blu-ray over web) and HDR/Dolby Vision and audio above raw file size, with size only breaking ties.
• The Apple TV "All sources" list scrolls all the way down again even when the first entry is a non-playable one (like a Ratings add-on).
• The Apple TV top menu bar comes back reliably after returning from the Home screen or switching profiles.
• Search suggestions on Apple TV interleave movies and series instead of burying all the series behind the movies. Contributed by OrigamiSpace.
• The streaming server holds up better under load thanks to a larger background worker pool.

What is next

VortX in full: the rest of the rebrand, plus native debrid, a richer Home, in-app add-on install, and more.

Install

Mac (.dmg, easiest, never expires). Download VortX-macOS-v0.3.5-ci.dmg, drag VortX into Applications, then clear Apple's one-time quarantine: open it once, click Done, then System Settings > Privacy & Security > Open Anyway (or run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/VortX.app). Full guide: Install on Mac.

iPhone, iPad, Apple TV (sideload the IPA). The IPAs are unsigned, because VortX is open-source and distributed outside the App Store with no Apple Developer ID yet, so you re-sign them yourself with Sideloadly, AltStore / SideStore, or Signulous. No jailbreak. Full guide: Installing on iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV.

Each asset lists a SHA-256 checksum so you can confirm your download matches what the public GitHub Actions workflow built from this code.

0.3.4: fixes across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV

A focused fix pass on top of 0.3.3, across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV, clearing the issues found in 0.3.3 testing.

Added

• The Quality picker is now in the Apple TV player too. Swap resolution (4K to 1080p to 720p) at your current position, the same one-tap switch the iPhone, iPad, and Mac player already had.
• A default external-player picker on Mac and Apple TV. Choose IINA or Infuse on Mac, or Infuse, VLC, and the others on Apple TV, and direct and debrid streams open straight there.

Fixed

• The Skip step setting now shows your choice and takes effect on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It was reading the saved value in the wrong format, so the control looked blank.
• Mac Settings shows the real audio and subtitle labels again, instead of every row collapsing to "Size".
• A source with no readable resolution now reads "Other", not "Best", so a small file is never dressed up as the top pick. A file far too small to be 4K is also no longer tagged 4K.
• The Apple TV player controls are rebalanced. Aspect, speed, and source switching moved to the left next to the gear, so the right side is no longer crowded and the skip and audio buttons no longer overlap.
• The Apple TV "Ends at" clock no longer cuts off after its first couple of digits.

Notes

• Landing next: an A/B loop, a frame grab to Photos, sharing a title, copy-all-source-links, a What's New sheet, haptics and alot more.

Install

Mac (.dmg, easiest, never expires). Download StremioX-macOS-v0.3.4-ci.dmg, drag StremioX into Applications, then clear Apple's one-time quarantine: open it once, click Done, then System Settings > Privacy & Security > Open Anyway (or run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/StremioX.app). Full guide: Install on Mac.

iPhone, iPad, Apple TV (sideload the IPA). The IPAs are unsigned, because StremioX is open-source and distributed outside the App Store with no Apple Developer ID yet, so you re-sign them yourself with Sideloadly, AltStore / SideStore, or Signulous. No jailbreak. Full guide: Installing on iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV.

Each asset lists a SHA-256 checksum so you can confirm your download matches what the public GitHub Actions workflow built from this code.

0.3.3 - Player and Browse update

0.3.3 - 2026-06-15

The big player and browse update on top of 0.3.1, across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. A new in-player quality picker, native adaptive-stream playback, a default external-player engine, new-episode alerts, smarter HDR, a full set of source filters, and a long list of on-device fixes (the subtitle freeze and blank posters among them).

Added

• An in-player Quality picker. One tap swaps the resolution (4K to 1080p to 720p and back) at your current position, without reopening the source list.
• Adaptive streams now play in AVPlayer on iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV. An OK.ru-style HLS source ramps to the best quality your connection holds, instead of getting stuck at the lowest rendition.
• A default external-player engine. Pick Infuse, VLC, Outplayer, Sen Player, nPlayer, or MX Player, and direct and debrid streams open straight there. A pre-flight check catches a dead link before the hand-off, and you can copy a torrent's magnet link from the same menu.
• New-episode alerts. Get notified when a show in your library has a new episode airing. On by default, scheduled on-device, no background tracking.
• An Up Next band with a countdown at the end of an episode on every platform, plus next-episode preload on iPhone, iPad, and Mac so the next one starts fast.
• Smarter HDR and Dolby Vision. An Auto / On / Off tone-mapping control that checks whether your display actually handles HDR, plus a Dolby Vision profile-7 to profile-8 fallback so more 4K remuxes play instead of failing.
• Source filters and sorting. Keyword include and exclude, a safety filter, and new toggles for Instant sources only, Hide dead torrents, HDR only, Hide AV1, and a Max quality cap. Sort the Sources list by Best, Size, or Seeders, and it remembers your choice.
• A Chapters navigator in the player with chapter ticks on the seek bar, an "Ends at" clock, and a configurable skip step (10, 15, or 30 seconds).
• Lock Screen and Control Center controls on iPhone and iPad (play, pause, skip, scrub, title and artwork), and keyboard controls in the macOS player (Space and arrows).
• Auto-landscape on iPhone and iPad. The player rotates to landscape the moment a stream opens, even with rotation lock on (with a toggle to turn it off).
• A richer Playback Info sheet (what is playing, the add-on it came from, the full release name and filename), a Cast, Director, and Writer row on the detail page, and IMDb rating badges on catalog posters.
• Home catalog pagination, so a large set of catalogs keeps loading as you scroll instead of stopping at the first batch, and a more prominent update banner on iPhone and Mac.
• Seek-while-hidden on Apple TV. With the controls hidden, Left/Right seek 10 seconds directly with a brief time pill. The options panel also closes after a one-shot pick so you land back on the video, and the Apple TV player buttons gained a frosted Liquid Glass look.

Fixed

• Add-on subtitles no longer freeze the app. A slow or on-demand subtitle source (Submaker, or a laggy OpenSubtitles) used to lock the player while it downloaded. The download now runs in the background with a timeout.
• Catalog posters no longer go blank. Tiles that scrolled offscreen and back dropped their image with no retry; they now cache and reload reliably, on Apple TV too.
• Plain-http custom streaming servers work, including a server reached over a Tailscale address, which the network layer used to block.
• The iPhone streaming server stays alive when the screen locks, so audio keeps playing and the stream survives.
• Add-on posters that are not 2:3 no longer look squished on Home, and the Discover grid no longer drops cells when a catalog repeats a title across pages.

Notes

• Landing next: PiP, an A/B loop, a frame grab to Photos, sharing a title, copy-all-source-links, a What's New sheet, haptics and much more.

Known issues

Found in testing, fixes queued for 0.3.4:

• The Skip step setting does not show or change its value (playback still uses the default 10 seconds). #65
• The Quality picker's Best entry is the unknown-resolution bucket, not the highest-quality source, so it can be a small file. #66
• On Mac, the Audio and Subtitle settings rows render duplicated. #67
• The quality picker can occasionally tag a low-resolution source as 4K, and Best is not always the biggest remux. #68

Install

Mac (.dmg, easiest, never expires). Download StremioX-macOS-0.3.3.dmg, drag StremioX into Applications, then clear Apple's one-time quarantine: open it once, click Done, then System Settings > Privacy & Security > Open Anyway (or run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/StremioX.app). Full guide: Install on Mac.

iPhone, iPad, Apple TV (sideload the IPA). The IPAs are unsigned, because StremioX is open-source and distributed outside the App Store with no Apple Developer ID yet, so you re-sign them yourself with Sideloadly, AltStore / SideStore, or Signulous. No jailbreak. Full guide: Installing on iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV.

Each asset lists a SHA-256 checksum so you can confirm your download matches what the public GitHub Actions workflow built from this code

0.3.2 beta — feature wave

0.3.2-0.3.3 is the feature wave. It is an iterating prerelease: features land build by build, then it promotes to the latest release. 0.3.1 (movies + server fixes) is the current stable Latest.

In this build

• Seek-while-hidden on Apple TV. With the controls hidden, Left/Right seek backward/forward 10 seconds directly, with a brief time pill, instead of revealing the whole control bar. Up/Down still reveal the controls.

Landing next in 0.3.3 beta 1

A default external-player engine (Infuse/VLC), an Up Next autoplay band with a countdown, an in-player quality picker, tvOS glass buttons, Mac keyboard navigation, new-episode notifications, and more.

Install

Mac (.dmg). Download StremioX-macOS-0.3.2.dmg, drag to Applications, open once and clear quarantine (System Settings > Privacy & Security > Open Anyway). iPhone / iPad / Apple TV. Re-sign the unsigned IPA with Sideloadly / AltStore / SideStore. Guides in the wiki.

0.3.1 bug fixes and server stability

0.3.1 is the bug-fix and polish release on top of 0.3.0, driven by on-device testing across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. The two headline wins: movies query every add-on again, and the embedded streaming server holds up on iPhone and Apple TV (debrid and torrent). Full history in CHANGELOG.md.

Fixed

• Movies now query ALL your add-ons (iPhone and Mac). A title from a TMDB-based catalog carries a TMDB id, and stream add-ons keyed to IMDB ids were silently skipped for it, so only a couple answered. StremioX now resolves the title's IMDB id (the same one official Stremio uses) before requesting sources, so every add-on is queried. Apple TV was unaffected. If a movie still shows only a couple of add-ons, the Sources list names the ones that errored or returned nothing.
• The embedded streaming server is harder to kill on iPhone and Apple TV, on debrid too. On these platforms the server runs inside the app, and its memory footprint includes the player's read-ahead buffer, so even a debrid (direct) stream could push the whole app past the iOS/tvOS limit. The read-ahead is now smaller (128 MB, 96 MB on the 2 GB Apple TV HD) and the seek-back buffer trimmed, on top of the raised memory ceiling, fewer torrent connections, and a one-tap server restart in Settings.
• Watched episodes tick again across a binge on Apple TV. Auto-advancing through a season marked only the first episode watched; every episode now marks.
• Source rows show the release filename again, so you can tell "Part 1" from "Part 2" instead of just the quality tags.
• HDR no longer washes out after an in-place episode switch. Auto-advancing or skipping between two HDR episodes re-applies the HDR output reliably.
• Continue Watching, Next, and Previous pick the best source, not the first to answer. The player waits for add-ons to settle, so resuming or switching episodes lands on the quality you were watching, and the in-player Sources button reliably appears on a CW resume.
• Continue Watching resume gets the in-player episode controls (Next, Previous, episode list).
• The iPhone hero billboard rotates again instead of freezing on one title after a tab switch.
• Source rows no longer show the resolution twice when an add-on is named after a quality.

Added

• Audio Passthrough, in Settings and from the in-player Audio control: bitstream Dolby and DTS to an AV receiver that decodes them.
• Richer source rows: HDR variant (Dolby Vision, HDR10+, HDR10), audio (Atmos, TrueHD, DTS-HD), channel layout, and codec.
• Local scrub-preview thumbnails, captured while you watch, so dragging the seek bar shows a frame preview even without a server storyboard. Contributed by OrigamiSpace.
• Scroll arrows on catalog rows (Mac, and iPad with a pointer).
• A bigger iPhone hero billboard, and binge continuity on Continue Watching (resume + Next/Previous keep the same release group across episodes).

Coming in 0.3.2

Seek-while-hidden, an Up Next autoplay band, a default external-player engine (Infuse/VLC), an in-player quality picker, and more.

Install

Mac (.dmg, easiest). Download StremioX-macOS-0.3.1.dmg, drag to Applications, then open once and clear quarantine via System Settings > Privacy & Security > Open Anyway (or xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/StremioX.app). Guide: Install on Mac.
iPhone, iPad, Apple TV. Re-sign the unsigned IPA with Sideloadly / AltStore / SideStore. Guide: Installing.

Each asset lists a SHA-256 checksum.

Thanks to OrigamiSpace for the trickplay contribution.

0.3.0 LATEST StremioX now on ipad iphone Mac and Apple tv

StremioX is now a native app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac alongside Apple TV, all running the same stremio-core engine and libmpv player. This release retires the old iPhone and iPad web host. Below is everything in the apps today, what each platform adds on top, and what is coming next. Full per-version history is in CHANGELOG.md.

New in 0.3.0

• In-player next / previous episode, an episode list, and end-of-episode auto-advance on iPhone, iPad, and Mac (episodes switch in place, carrying resume and quality forward).
• Sleep timer (15 to 90 minutes, or stop at the end of the current episode).
• A native macOS menu bar: a Go menu with keyboard shortcuts, Settings on Command comma, and Check for Updates.
• A translucent top bar on iPhone browse screens, a streaming-server log in Settings, and the launch animation on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
• The iPhone streaming server is far more stable (device-scaled torrent cache), finishing a mid-series episode no longer clears the series from Continue Watching, series find their sources, playback records to Continue Watching and resumes, and a long list of iPhone display fixes (see the betas in the changelog).

On every device (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV)

• Your account, add-ons, library, and Continue Watching, kept in sync.
• Cinematic detail pages and ranked Watch Now with a two-level quality picker (resolution, then variant).
• An interactive auto-rotating featured hero with a muted trailer on Home, Library, and Discover.
• Live TV: channels from your installed tv / IPTV add-ons as channel tiles, with a now-and-next strip from the channel's EPG and live-tuned playback.
• Torrent streaming (now on Mac too, which bundles the streaming server), plus debrid and direct links.
• HDR, Dolby Vision, and HEVC playback.
• Skip intro and outro from crowd timestamps.
• In-player episode navigation with auto-advance, and a sleep timer.
• Profiles, eight accent themes, and a launch animation.
• External player handoff (Infuse, VLC) for direct and debrid links.

Apple TV adds

• A focus-and-remote interface tuned for the living room, with the focused dynamic backdrop and rail viewport.
• Automatic performance mode on the memory-constrained Apple TV HD (every Apple TV 4K stays full).

iPhone and iPad add

• A touch-native interface with a custom tab bar.
• A streaming-server log in Settings.
• A manual landscape lock in the player.

Mac adds

• A native menu bar: a Go menu with Command-key shortcuts (tabs and Search), Settings on Command comma, and Check for Updates.
• Runs as a resizable desktop window.
• Ships as a drag-to-install .dmg: no Apple ID, no re-signing, and it never expires.

KNOWN ISSUES

Movies are not found reliably by the sources
The streaming server Crashing in iOS and iPadOS
Continue Watching resume player not showing all the controls and chooses wrong stream

Coming next

• Next-episode pre-search and sticky release-group auto-play for iOS, iPadOS and Mac just like TVOS(so quality does not jump mid-season).
• An animated hero background, an HTTP/HLS quality selector, and wider iPad and Mac layouts.
• A fuller accessibility pass, and more of the ongoing quality audit.

Install

Mac (.dmg, easiest, never expires). Download StremioX-macOS-0.3.0.dmg, drag StremioX into Applications, then clear Apple's one-time quarantine: open it once, click Done, then System Settings > Privacy & Security > Open Anyway (or run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/StremioX.app). Full guide: Install on Mac.

iPhone, iPad, Apple TV (sideload the IPA). The IPAs are unsigned, because StremioX is open-source and distributed outside the App Store with no Apple Developer ID yet, so you re-sign them yourself with Sideloadly, AltStore / SideStore, or Signulous. No jailbreak. Full guide: Installing on iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV.

Each asset lists a SHA-256 checksum so you can confirm your download matches what the public GitHub Actions workflow built from this code.

StremioX 0.2.53

A batch of fixes from a full pass over the code: better ranking, a player that gives up faster on a truly dead title, and some hardening. CI builds the IPAs and attaches them here when the workflow finishes:

• StremioX-tvOS-0.2.53.ipa, the full app with the embedded streaming server.
• StremioX-tvOS-lite-0.2.53.ipa, the lighter build that plays direct and debrid links only.

Fixes

• Cached debrid streams no longer lose to torrents when an add-on's tag is unfamiliar. If an add-on labels a cached link with a service tag the app didn't recognise, that link was ranked below raw torrents. A cached link is now treated as debrid-grade regardless of the exact tag, so your instant sources stay on top.
• A foreign word in a title no longer demotes an English release. The language ranking now reads the language only from the technical tags, not the title, so a film like "The French Dispatch" or "The Italian Job" is no longer mistaken for foreign audio. A release that genuinely advertises a single foreign language still ranks below one in your language, and your own language and multi-language releases are untouched.
• The player gives up faster on a dead title. The separate retry, warm-up, and source-hopping limits could add up to minutes of spinner before the error screen on a title where nothing works. There is now an overall time limit on getting playback started, so you reach the Retry screen in good time instead of waiting it out.

Under the hood

• A large source list (thousands of streams on a popular title) no longer thrashes the ranking cache mid-screen.
• Header-gated streams: a malformed header is skipped so it can't corrupt the proxy request.
• Documented two deliberate behaviours (engine resume on an episode mismatch, and the profile PIN being a parental gate rather than a security feature) so they aren't accidentally changed later.

If a new build does not seem to install, delete the app first and reinstall, then confirm the version in Settings.

StremioX 0.2.52

The real fix for no sound through a soundbar, plus two smaller playback fixes. CI builds the IPAs and attaches them here when the workflow finishes:

• StremioX-tvOS-0.2.52.ipa, the full app with the embedded streaming server.
• StremioX-tvOS-lite-0.2.52.ipa, the lighter build that plays direct and debrid links only.

Fixes

• Sound through soundbars and receivers that were silent. Some soundbars connected over HDMI played no audio from a movie while the same Apple TV had sound straight to the TV, and while official Stremio played the same title fine. The cause was a sample-rate mismatch: the player was handing the audio link the file's own rate (often 44.1kHz) instead of the rate the HDMI link runs at (usually 48kHz), and a soundbar silently drops a stream at the wrong rate where a TV does not. The player now converts audio to the rate the connected device actually uses before sending it, the same thing official Stremio does, so the sound plays. Real multichannel receivers are left on their native path untouched. If a setup is still silent, Settings, Playback, Audio output, Stereo remains as a manual override.
• External-player handoff no longer offers a stream it can't pass on. For a stream that needs special request headers (the ones routed through the built-in proxy), handing it to another player gave that app a link it could not open. Handoff now appears only for plain direct and debrid links, which the other player can actually play.
• Marking a title watched from Discover works on secondary profiles. On a profile with its own history, the watched toggle on a Discover row did nothing if the title wasn't already open; it now resolves the title from the catalog and records it.

If a new build does not seem to install, delete the app first and reinstall, then confirm the version in Settings.