Changelog archive: v1.x

🩹 Fixes a display bug where an activated license could still show "trial" in the header.

• The trial-days chip in the top bar could get stuck showing "TRIAL" after a license activated. Settings → Account always showed the correct "Licensed" state, and now the header chip updates live as well.
• Corrected lifetime-plan pricing and device-count across the app and site: 3 devices, $55 summer sale (was incorrectly shown as 2 devices/$79 in places). (Terms at the time of this release. Current prices and devices: pricing.)

📱 Android TV first launch no longer gets stuck, and macOS gets real notifications and Keychain.

• Android TV: first launch could get stuck behind the notification-permission prompt, fixed. The prompt no longer blocks first launch on TV; the app now asks only when it actually has a notification to show.
• macOS: real notifications and Keychain-backed secure storage. EPG reminders and recording events now show a native macOS notification, and your Xtream password / license key are stored in the Keychain instead of plaintext.
• Windows: fixed a broken activation-screen logo, a dead "HELP" link, and a discounted price that could overflow its plan button.
• Smoother playback on low-memory Fire TV Stick devices.

☀️ The summer sale is now visible right in the app.

• Summer-sale banner. The dashboard now surfaces the limited-time lifetime deal ($55 for 3 devices) so you don't miss it. Dismissible, and hidden automatically once you're on a paid plan. (Terms at the time of this release. Current prices and devices: pricing.)

🔥 Fire TV Cube fixes, a faster first-run, and buying gets simpler.

• Fire TV Cube: black screen with audio playing on live channels, fixed. Live channels show their picture again on the Cube, and playback now recovers by itself if this ever happens again.
• Fire TV Cube: remote D-pad navigation, fixed. The remote now works fully on the 3rd-generation Cube.
• 60-second guided setup for new installs. Paste a link, log in with Xtream, open a file, or try a sample playlist: one simple screen instead of the full manual playlist manager.
• Zero-paste activation. Buy from inside the app and it unlocks itself automatically once payment completes, no key to copy from an email.
• Live regional pricing and a self-serve "Forgot your key?" resend on the unlock screen.
• Windows toast / Android notifications for EPG reminders and recording events.
• "Manage playlists…" in the player and a new SERVERS tile in Settings make it easy to add a failover server or edit a connection.

🛒 Microsoft Store purchases now unlock premium automatically.

• Bought on the Microsoft Store? The app now recognizes your Store purchase and unlocks every premium feature automatically, no license key, no extra steps. Just update and you're set.
• Sideload / portable and Gumroad-key users: no change, your licensing works exactly as before.

📺 Smoother live 1080i, and the lists keep your place when you go back.

• 1080i live channels now de-interlace correctly. European 1080i50 broadcasts (and other interlaced channels) were being left interlaced: you'd see combing/tearing on motion. They're now detected and de-interlaced properly, while progressive 720p / 1080p50/60 are left untouched.
• Films & Series keep your scroll position. Open a title and press Back, and the list stays exactly where you were instead of jumping to the top.
• Category folders (countries & genres) too: they now keep their place when you go back from a category.

📺 A performance pass for Fire TV & Android TV, a one-tap diagnostics report, and a hardware-bound license fix.

• Fire TV / low-power Android performance mode. Playback now adapts automatically to streaming boxes so live TV and movies play far more smoothly with fewer freezes, especially with very large playlists.
• Send diagnostics report (Settings). If something goes wrong, send us a privacy-redacted log (your stream username and password are removed before it leaves the device) and share the short code with support so we can pinpoint the issue.
• License fix. App updates no longer use up a license slot, and a second device activates the way it should.
• Smoother live sports. 1080i channels are auto-detected and de-interlaced, reducing combing and judder.

🔴 Record a live channel while you keep watching: on a single connection, no freeze.

• Record live while watching. Record what you watch without a second connection, so providers that allow only one simultaneous connection no longer drop the stream and freeze. Recordings are saved as .ts.
• Smoother recording start: the last frame is held with a “Starting recording…” badge instead of a black screen.
• A recording file is now always created when you record a live channel.
• Live playback recovers automatically if your provider drops the connection (it could previously stay frozen).

🔧 Fixes a freeze when recording live TV, plus free-tier home-screen and trial improvements.

• Live recording no longer freezes the stream. On providers that allow only one connection, recording a live channel could freeze the picture. You can now record what you watch without a second connection.
• Favorites are back on the free-tier home screen so you can jump straight to your channels (playing a Premium item still prompts to unlock).
• Clearer guide (EPG) screen once the free live window ends, explaining what Premium restores.
• Gentler, earlier trial reminders.

Everything from 1.9.1 is included. See the entry below.

🔧 Android TV fix: entering Xtream credentials and exiting the app both work properly now.

• Xtream credential entry (Android TV). Each login field is now a button you open with OK, so the on-screen keyboard is always available, the D-pad moves field to field, and Done jumps to the next one, no more getting stuck.
• Back now exits the app. On the onboarding/login screens, Back exits the app (press once for a "press back again to exit" hint, then again to leave) instead of only walking back to the first screen.

Everything from 1.9.0 is included. See the entry below.

✨ Channel editor, parental controls, movie/series info and a new live-first free tier.

• Channel editor (Premium). Hide channels you never watch and rename the messy ones; your live list reflects the edits.
• Parental controls (Premium). Kids-safe mode hides adult (18+) content everywhere, with an optional Parental PIN and per-channel locks.
• Movie & series info (Premium). Posters, ratings and overviews via your own free TMDB key: anonymous, your key, no shared account.
• Redesigned Settings. A clean grid of icon cards with focused sub-pages, plus a Shortcuts reference page and mouse-hover highlighting.
• New live-first free tier. During the 14-day trial everything is unlocked. After it, live TV and the guide stay free for a short grace window; movies, series, favorites, recording, multi-view and the rest are Premium. (Terms at the time of this release. Current prices and devices: pricing.)

Everything from 1.8.7 is included. See the entry below.

🔧 Maintenance update: a small under-the-hood stability fix.

• Internal player-overlay fix. Resolved a minor internal layout warning in the live player overlay. No change to playback, features, or how the app looks.

Everything from 1.8.6 is included. See the entry below.

▶️ Continue watching + favorite channels on the home screen, plus a live-TV stability fix.

• Continue watching (live). A one-tap “Continue watching” banner on the home screen takes you straight back to your last live channel: with the current programme shown when guide data is available.
• Favorite channels on the home screen. A quick row for one-tap access to your favorite live channels (hidden automatically when a Favorites PIN is set).
• Clipboard playlist detection. Copy an IPTV link, open Playlists, and add it in one tap, no pasting.
• Fixed a freeze that could happen when opening a live channel from Favorites or the Dashboard.
• Favorites PIN is now airtight: favorites no longer appear on the home screen or dashboard when a PIN is set.

Everything from 1.8.5 is included. See the entry below.

🌍 Fairer regional pricing + simpler upgrade screens.

• Automatic regional pricing. Where available, your local price is applied at checkout, no discount codes to hunt for or type in. Every Buy button opens the right checkout for your region.
• Simpler upgrade screens. The plan and trial-end screens are cleaner and more consistent, with honest “final price shown at checkout” wording.
• Small fixes and copy improvements.

Everything from 1.8.4 is included. See the entry below.

💸 A cheaper way to own it + an in-app checkout fix.

• New $39 single-device Lifetime. The trial-end and upgrade screens now offer a 1-device Lifetime for $39 alongside the 2-device $79: the cheapest way to own it forever. (Terms at the time of this release. Current prices and devices: pricing.)
• Fixed the in-app Yearly checkout. The “Yearly” button now opens the $29/year plan instead of defaulting to the $5.99/month plan. (Terms at the time of this release. Current prices and devices: pricing.)

Everything from 1.8.3 is included. See the entry below.

🎉 Free tier after the trial + one-tap upgrade + smoother live.

Note (added later): this grace behavior was since narrowed to a single extra day of live TV/EPG access after the trial ends, not a standing free tier. See the current pricing on the homepage or in the app.

• The app no longer locks you out when the trial ends. Single-view live playback and the EPG/guide stay free; premium features (4-stream multi-view, recording & scheduled DVR, cloud sync, HDR tone-mapping, Atmos/DTS-X passthrough) show a one-tap Unlock instead of locking the whole app.
• Faster, simpler upgrade. The Buy buttons open checkout directly (no website detour), the trial-end screen recaps your plans and price, and there’s a discount path for tight budgets / weaker-currency regions.
• Smoother live playback. Fewer micro-stutters and freezes on bursty IPTV/Xtream servers.
• macOS: frameless window, the title bar is hidden and the traffic-light buttons float over the top bar.

Everything from 1.8.2 is included. See the entry below.

🛠️ Stability: fixes a hang on long sessions. Traced from a customer crash log.

• No more hang after lots of channel switching. Long sessions with many channel switches could freeze the app. Fixed. (The old “turn off Playback Diagnostics” workaround is no longer needed.)
• Smoother return from the background. A live channel only reconnects to the live edge (a brief black frame) if you were away more than a few seconds: a quick Alt-Tab or minimize now just refreshes the picture, no black flash.
• Multiview: no more black cell. With several streams at once a cell could show black (audio only); every cell now keeps its picture.

Everything from 1.8.1 is included. See the entry below.

🍎 macOS beta + live background-resume fix.

• macOS build (beta): Nightmare TV now runs on macOS (Apple Silicon + Intel) on the same libmpv engine. The .dmg is unsigned for now: on first launch right-click the app → Open to pass Gatekeeper. A notarized build will follow.
• Live stream no longer freezes in the background. Minimizing the app (or backgrounding it on a TV box) and reopening used to leave a live channel frozen: the player now reconnects to the live edge on resume. VOD is unaffected.

Everything from 1.8.0 is included. See the entry below.

📺 Android TV / remote overhaul + playback fix. The app is now fully usable with a TV remote, and a streaming bug that blocked some providers is fixed.

• Full D-pad navigation with a visible amber focus highlight on every screen; long channel / movie lists scroll to follow focus.
• Enter Xtream / M3U credentials with the remote: fields focus correctly and there's a built-in on-screen keyboard for TV boxes whose system keyboard doesn't appear.
• Back reliably exits fields, dialogs and the player; the channel list is reachable with the remote inside the player.
• Playback: fixed “Failed to open …m3u8” on streams that play in VLC / IPTV Smarters, the player now sends a VLC-compatible User-Agent, with a new Settings → Player → Stream User-Agent field to customize it.

Everything from 1.7.x is included. See the entries below.

🎯 Tiny UX patch. The Live channel-list slide-out used to close under your hand if you held the mouse still while reading an EPG row. It now stays open as long as the cursor is over it and closes 2 seconds after the cursor leaves: same pattern as the IMAGE panel fix in v1.7.3.

Everything from 1.7.3 is included: faster channel open (1–3 s), Match Mode 2.0 25 fps fix, deinterlace default Auto, IMAGE panel mouse-leave auto-hide, Settings → Player Deinterlace + Field order dropdowns. See the 1.7.3 entry below.

⚡ Live-playback feel polish. Channels open in 1–3 seconds, Match Mode is smarter, and the IMAGE panel stops closing while you're reading it.

Everything from 1.7.2 is included: more reliable trial state, smoother recovery when a stream drops, faster startup. See the 1.7.2 entry below.

⚡ Stability & performance polish. Everything from v1.7.1 is included.

Everything from 1.7.1 is included: live-playback reliability hotfix (streams recover by themselves instead of freezing). See the 1.7.1 entry below.

🔧 Live-playback reliability hotfix. No more ~10-15 second freezes after opening a channel.

Everything from 1.7.0 is included: Smart Audio, Match Mode 2.0, HQ Upscale, country grouping, smart search, NL EPG search, Cloud Sync. See the 1.7.0 entry below.

🎬 Big feature drop: new picture & audio modes, cloud sync, smarter search and EPG, country grouping across all category grids.

🌍 Now in 8 languages, an instant program guide, and encrypted credentials. A big international & privacy update.

⚽ World Cup offer: 11% off. Get 11% off Lifetime & Yearly licenses with code WORLDCUP11, applied automatically at checkout, through July 19. (Terms at the time of this release. Current prices and devices: pricing.)

⚽ Tuned for the World Cup. New image controls land right in the Live TV panel (including one-tap Match Mode) plus a batch of EPG and live-playback fixes.

Everything from v1.6.8 below is included.

✨ Smoother motion on high-refresh displays. Fast-motion scenes in movies & shows no longer judder on 120/144/165 Hz monitors: motion stays smooth at your display's real refresh rate.

Tip: setting a high-refresh monitor to 120 Hz for movies gives a perfect 24fps cadence with zero judder. Everything from v1.6.7 below is included.

✨ A smoother first run, plus a fix for a phantom update prompt. This release adds gentle in-app guidance during the trial, an optional rating prompt, and corrects how the app detects its own version.

Everything from v1.6.6 below is included.

🪪 License status now displays correctly. After you activate a license key, Settings → License shows your status as Licensed instead of always reading "Trial". Activation itself always worked: this fixes a cosmetic label that could confuse activated customers.

Everything from v1.6.5 below is included.

🔧 Critical crash fix + picture quality restoration. Channel switching (especially between 4K and HD streams) no longer crashes the app. Fast-start is 2× quicker, Picture Restore presets are now live, and Auto Failover silently recovers broken streams.

🌐 Eight-language interface: now including the whole Settings screen. Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Italian join English, Türkçe, العربية, Deutsch and Русский. More importantly, the entire Settings page is now translated: every option, help text, dialog and notification (229 localized strings across all eight languages, up from 88). Previously the deep Settings options stayed English even when the rest of the app was localized.

🇧🇷🇮🇹🇪🇸 Built for the markets that asked. Portuguese (Brazil), Italian and Spanish speakers now get a fully native UI. Pick your language in Settings → Interface language, or leave it on "System" to follow your OS.

🔢 Correct version display. The Settings footer now shows the real app version instead of a stale placeholder.

🌍 Five-language interface restored. The app now auto-detects your system locale and ships with full UI translations for English, Türkçe, العربية, Deutsch, and Русский: Arabic was a long-standing miss that the first paying customer caught. RTL layout flips automatically.

⚙️ Settings is now visible. The gear icon lives sticky on the right side of the top navigation, no more horizontal scrolling to find it on high-DPI displays. The pill row also gets an always-visible scrollbar so newcomers know there's more content beyond the right edge.

⬇ Built-in update notifier. Each launch politely checks for a newer build. When one shows up, you'll see a floating notice with an "İndir / Download" action and an amber pill in the top-bar: long-press the pill to dismiss until the next release. Microsoft Store users keep getting silent auto-updates; this banner mainly helps sideload installs.

🎉 Nightmare TV is now live on the Microsoft Store. Open in Store →

This release rolls up everything since v1.4.x: standalone M3U Hub, glass-clear video (smoother seeking, a decode-corruption fix, faster channel switches), tamper-proof trial, Try Demo button, 450+ strings translated to English, and full Microsoft Store certification compliance (10.1.2.10 nav scaling, 10.3.1 testability, 10.7 localization, 10.8.2 IAP declaration).

Major release: tamper-proof trial, image-quality upgrade (deinterlacing + sharpening), in-player Settings shortcut, and a "Try Demo" button so first-time visitors (and Microsoft Store certification testers) can play sample channels without an IPTV account.

Live sports playback gets a major smoothness pass. Fixes the periodic 10-15-frame stutter that 50 Hz interlaced TR sport streams produced on 60 Hz monitors (the classic 5:6 cadence judder).

Real BT.2390 HDR tone-mapping pipeline lit up. Dolby Atmos / DTS-X / TrueHD bitstream passthrough is now a user-facing toggle. Microsoft Store icon assets regenerated.

Bug-fix release with the new 14-day trial enforcement, smoother window restore behaviour and auto-hiding side panels.

The first public release of Nightmare TV. A native media player for Windows powered by libmpv.