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@mamaclapper mamaclapper released this 15 Jun 07:28
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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.

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