The whole pitch: a player built by someone who actually cares about the details most apps skip.
Every player I tried looked like it was built in 2009, buried my shows under ads, or quietly shipped my viewing habits off to an ad server.
So I built the one I actually wanted. Fast. Apple-native, in real Swift — not a web page in a costume. Beautiful enough that you want to leave it on. And private by default: no ads, no tracking, no account you didn't ask for. Your library, your server, your data — on your devices, the way it should look.
Rivue is made by one person who cares about the details most apps skip. That's the whole pitch.
— Farid
Rivue is a premium media player and home for your content. You connect your own subscriptions, playlists, and media — Rivue gives all of it one fast, beautiful, private interface across your Apple devices.
Rivue includes a small library of free, public-domain classic films — the Rivue Classics — so there's always something to watch out of the box. For everything else you bring your own sources: your TV provider playlists, your media library, your recordings. Rivue is the player, not the content.
iPhone, iPad and Mac today, built natively in Swift for each. Apple Vision Pro is supported day one as an iPad app, Apple TV is in development, and Android is planned after launch.
Rivue is free during the beta. At launch the core app stays free, with a Pro tier for power features like cross-device sync, saved multi-view layouts and the content calendar.
Your watch history lives on your devices. Live captions and translation run on-device — your audio is never sent to a server. Private mode keeps selected channels out of history entirely, and nothing you mark private ever leaves your device. We don't sell data — the product is the app, not you.