TvhClient

TvhClient is a full client for your TVHeadend server: watch live TV, rewind it, browse the guide, and manage your recordings from your iPhone or iPad.

WATCH

• Live TV with a built-in player: pause and rewind live TV with timeshift, see the programme under the playhead, and switch channels without leaving the player
• Choose your playback engine, VLCKit 4 or mpv, separately for live TV and recordings. Both deinterlace.
• Picture in Picture, background audio, a draggable mini player, and a statistics overlay
• Pick audio and subtitle tracks. TvhClient remembers them per channel, and remembers where you stopped in a recording.
• Transcoding profiles, and an audio-only mode that picks a suitable profile for you
• Connects over HTSP (timeshift, instant updates) or the HTTP API. TvhClient works out which one your network supports.

BROWSE

• Channel groups, channels with now/next and progress, and each channel's programmes by day
• "Now" shows what is on across all channels, with search and filters by group and channel
• Programme details with "See Again" to find the same title at other times

RECORD

• Record with one tap, or create and edit recordings and AutoRec rules in editors built from your server's own settings
• Upcoming, Completed, Failed, Removed and AutoRec lists, with folders
• Play recordings with seeking, straight from the list

ADMINISTER

• Status: subscriptions, tuner inputs, networks, muxes and services
• The live server log, and the app's own diagnostics

EVERYWHERE

• Siri and Shortcuts: "Play BBC One in TvhClient", "What's on now?", "Record this"
• Spotlight search for channels, recordings and programmes
• Widgets and a Live Activity for recordings
• CarPlay audio, for listening to your channels in the car
• Optional iCloud storage for your servers, and sync of track choices and resume positions with the Apple TV app
• Several servers, with Bonjour discovery. A server can name a public address to fall back on when you're away from home.
• A redesigned interface for iOS 26, with a Help section in Settings. It also runs on Apple Silicon Macs as an iPad app.

Works with tvheadend 3.2 and up. Transcoding needs tvheadend 4.x profiles. HTSP timeshift needs timeshift enabled on the server.

Also available for Apple TV. Your audio and subtitle choices and recording resume positions sync between them.

Support: [email protected] or http://chat.tvhclient.com