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. Rivue has taken more hours than I can count. Nights, weekends and full days went into the details most apps skip: how fast the guide scrolls, how captions look, what happens in the half second after you press play. It is properly native on every screen, real Swift on Apple and real Kotlin on Android, not a repackaged website. There are no ads and no trackers, and I do not sell anything about what you watch.
I am building Rivue because I want it to be great for the people who use it. So if something feels wrong, slow or missing, tell me. I read every message, and honest feedback from real viewers decides what I build next. Write me any time at hello@rivue.tv.
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 devices.
No. You bring your own sources: your TV provider playlists, your media library, your recordings. Rivue is the player, not the content. Rivue is not affiliated with any TV or content provider, and it does not condone piracy. Use it with content you have the legal right to watch. A small built-in library of free, public-domain classics (Rivue Classics) is included so there's always something to watch out of the box. It appears when you haven't added any sources yet, and you can turn it on any time in Settings.
iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV all work today, each built natively in Swift. Android phones, Android TV, Google TV and Fire TV work today too, built natively in Kotlin. Apple Vision Pro is supported day one as an iPad app.
Yes. A free Rivue account, created in seconds with your email or your Apple ID. It's what makes your playlists, history, profiles and settings follow you to every device, and it lets you sign in on a TV with a short code from your phone instead of typing a password with a remote. Your watch progress syncs with your account so you can stop on one device and pick up on another, and you can switch that off in Settings. Anything you mark Private never leaves the device it happened on.
Honest answer: no, not today, and it's an Apple limitation, not a missing checkbox. Live captions and translation run on-device using Apple's Speech and Translation frameworks, and Apple does not ship those frameworks on tvOS. Rather than show you a button that can only fail, the Apple TV app doesn't show it at all. On iPhone, iPad and Mac it works fully. On the roadmap: a companion mode where your iPhone does the listening and translating and feeds live captions to your Apple TV.
No. It's your Mac, your files, your bandwidth. Remote streaming is part of the same app, not a separate product to buy. Your video streams directly from your Mac to your device and never passes through our cloud, which also means we couldn't watch it if we wanted to.
Rivue is completely free during the beta, with everything unlocked. At launch there will be a free tier and one affordable Pro plan. That's the whole idea: one app that replaces a player, a DVR, a media server and a download manager, for less than what people pay for any one of those. Final pricing will be announced before launch, and active beta testers will get founding-member pricing.
Your watch progress syncs with your account, which is what lets you stop on one device and resume on another. You can turn that off in Settings if you would rather it stayed put. Nothing else about your viewing goes anywhere. Live captions and translation run on the device itself, so your audio is never sent to a server. Private mode keeps selected channels out of history entirely, Guest Mode lets someone else watch without touching your history at all, and nothing you mark private ever leaves your device. We don't sell data. The product is the app, not you.
Yes. Android phones, Android TV, Google TV and Fire TV all work today, built with the same native-first philosophy (a real engine in Kotlin, not a web wrapper) and made to look and feel like Rivue on the Mac. Your account keeps both sides in step.