Features

One app. Every screen.
Zero compromise.

Everything you watch. Live TV, movies, series, recordings and your own media, with the polish everything else forgot.

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Live TV with a real guide

A smooth 7-day channel guide with eight color themes, zoom from 2 hours to a full week, smart search across what's airing right now.

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Combined Mode

All your playlists behave as one lineup. Duplicate channels fold into a single row, and when you press play Rivue picks the best source automatically, based on how each one actually performs.

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Auto-record your teams

Follow your teams and leagues, and their games record by themselves, with no schedules to manage. The guide marks what will record before it happens, and if a stream dies mid-recording, Rivue finds another source of the same program and keeps going.

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Movies & Series

Rich detail pages with cast, ratings and trailers. Per-episode resume, auto-next, and watch history that syncs across your devices. Looking for one scene? Search inside a show and jump straight to the episode.

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True offline downloads

Download movies and episodes to your iPhone, your iPad, even your Mac. Downloads survive locks, restarts and bad Wi-Fi, then play anywhere, even in Airplane Mode. Subtitles download alongside, so they work offline too.

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Live captions & translation

On-device transcription turns any stream into captions, then translates them live. Nine caption fonts, full styling, your rules. On iPhone, iPad and Mac (see the FAQ for Apple TV).

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DVR with live rewind

Pause and rewind live TV, record it, schedule from the guide, and stream recordings to every device from your own Mac. A full DVR built into the same app. No cable box, no extra hardware.

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Universal search

One search across channels, what's on the air, movies, series, even actors. Typo? Rivue knows who you meant.

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A media server, built in

Pick a folder and Rivue files every download and recording into a clean, named library of Movies, TV Shows and Live TV, with posters and descriptions. Browse and stream it on every device with no separate server to run. Already use Plex or Jellyfin? It drops right in.

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Adaptive streaming

Streaming from your server over a weak connection? Rivue lowers the stream quality in real time instead of buffering. It measures the connection and sends the full-quality original when the connection is fast.

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A real picture suite

Six presets plus sixteen live controls for brightness, contrast, gamma, color temperature, red/green/blue balance, sharpness, denoise and more. They apply as you watch, on every platform, TV included.

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Sync that fixes itself

Automatic Bluetooth latency correction plus ยฑ25 ms per-content lip-sync trims that Rivue remembers per title and per channel. Voices match mouths, even on AirPods.

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Subtitles on demand

No captions in the stream? Search OpenSubtitles right from the player, even on the couch with your remote. The subtitles download straight into playback.

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One account, every screen

Sign in and your playlists, watch history, resume points and watchlist follow you. Apple and Android devices stay in step. On a TV, sign in with a short 8-character code from your phone, so there is no password to type with a remote.

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Your phone is the remote

Your iPhone controls Rivue on your Mac, iPad or Apple TV over an encrypted connection on your own home network. Browse, play, and type searches with your phone's keyboard instead of hunting letters with a remote.

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Profiles with their own look

Everyone in the house gets their own profile with its own history, watchlist and theme. Your choices follow your account, so every device you sign in to looks and feels like yours.

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See where you're scrubbing

Drag the timeline in a movie, episode or download and a small preview picture follows along, so you land exactly on the scene you want.

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Every playlist, your rules

Each playlist keeps its own settings: choose exactly which categories show, and if a playlist's replay of past shows starts at the wrong time, correct its clock once for that playlist and it stays fixed.

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TV Mode

Put a Mac mini behind your TV and it becomes the TV. You get a big-screen, couch-friendly layout you drive from the sofa with a game controller, a Bluetooth remote, or a keyboard. No mouse needed.

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Private by design

Private mode, per-channel history control, PIN-locked content, Guest Mode. Your watch progress syncs with your account so it follows you between devices, and you can switch that off. It never goes to an ad server, because there isn't one.

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Want a feature? Ask for it.

Rivue is shaped by the people who use it. If there is a feature you would like to see, email your request to hello@rivue.tv. Every message gets read.

Watch how you want

Multi-View. Up to eight streams at once.

Game day, election night, or just keeping the news on while you browse. Build a wall of streams, save it as a layout, and bring it back with one click.

  • Save layouts like โ€œSunday Footballโ€ and reload them instantly
  • Audio follows the tile you select, and any tile can be promoted to a hero layout
  • Picture-in-picture and a floating mini player on iPhone, iPad and Mac
Rivue Multi-View with eight live channels at once in a 4-by-2 grid
Understand everything

Captions for things that don't have captions.

Rivue listens on-device and writes captions in real time, then translates them into your language while you watch. Foreign news, international sports, anything.

  • Live transcription on any stream
  • Real-time translation in the caption bar
  • Nine fonts, full color and position control
Rivue live translation, with English news captioned in French in real time on the device
Take it with you

Downloads that actually work.

Start a download before you fly and lock your phone. Rivue keeps downloading in the background, survives restarts, and resumes anything that gets interrupted. Then watch offline anywhere there's no signal: on the plane, on the subway, anywhere at all.

  • Movies and full seasons, on device
  • Even on your MacBook, so you can download in the Mac app and watch on the plane. Almost no big streaming service even has a Mac app, let alone downloads.
  • Subtitles are fetched with the download, so they work offline too
  • Progress survives app restarts and reinstalls
  • Watched state syncs back when you're online
Downloads
Friday Night Thriller2.1 GB ยท downloading
S2 ยท Episode 4840 MB
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Documentaries1.3 GB
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Take your library anywhere

Your library. Anywhere.

Your Mac hosts your library; your other devices stream it, at home over Wi-Fi and away over cellular once you point Rivue at your own tunnel address. Other apps sell this as a separate product. In Rivue it's part of one app, and your video streams directly from your Mac to your device: it never passes through our cloud.

  • Sign in anywhere and your server shows up, with your shows and movies organized under real artwork
  • Weak connection? Your server lowers the stream quality in real time instead of buffering
  • Your Mac keeps itself awake while hosting, relaunches at login, and tells other devices honestly when it's offline
Rivue home server library with shows, movies and collections served from your own Mac
Serious on the big screen

The Apple TV app gets the details right.

Not a phone app stretched onto a TV. This one is designed for the big screen and the Siri Remote. Every control is one press away: a full picture suite with sixteen live controls, stream info with the real measured speed, A-B repeat, per-title lip-sync adjustment, and subtitle search you can actually type with a remote.

  • Presets plus 16 live picture controls, applied by the engine as you watch
  • Resolution, frame rate, codec and real measured bitrate on the transport bar
  • Search and download subtitles from the couch, straight into the stream
Rivue transport menu on Apple TV with subtitle search, speed, A-B loop, audio sync and stream info
Your library, sorted

Your whole library, organized.
No server required.

Choose one folder and Rivue files everything for you into Movies, TV Shows and Live TV, each named and sorted with its own poster and synopsis. Browse, search and stream your whole library right inside Rivue, on every device. No Plex, no Jellyfin, no separate media server to set up or keep running. Rivue is the one-stop shop. Works both ways: point Rivue at an existing Plex or Jellyfin folder and browse it right inside Rivue, and because Rivue files to that same clean, standard structure, anything it saves still opens in Plex or Jellyfin too.

  • Browse, search & stream it all in Rivue, with no separate server to run
  • Movies, TV Shows and Live TV, each auto-filed in its own folder
  • Proper episode names like Show - S01E02 - Title, with poster & synopsis on every file
  • Already on Plex or Jellyfin? Same standard layout, so it just works there too
Rivue Library
๐Ÿ“ Movies
๐Ÿ“ The Long Drive (2024)
๐ŸŽฌ The Long Drive (2024).mp4
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๐Ÿ“ TV Shows
๐Ÿ“ Night Desk โ€บ Season 01
๐ŸŽฌ Night Desk - S01E02 - Cold Open.mp4
๐Ÿ“ Live TV
๐Ÿ“ Saturday Match
๐ŸŽฌ Saturday Match - 2026-06-18.mp4