v0.21 focuses on quality-of-life improvements, performance, and playback experience improvements across the app.
This release also introduces one of the most requested features for macOS users: an experimental embedded MPV player built directly into the app — no additional installation required.
✨ Highlights
- Experimental embedded MPV player for macOS
- Toggleable Live TV sidebar and EPG panel
- Improved command palette
- Better Recently Viewed & Favorites experience
- Performance and loading time improvements
- Multiple Xtream, Stalker, and M3U fixes
🍎 macOS Embedded MPV Player (Experimental)
[macOS only]
IPTVnator now includes an experimental embedded MPV player directly inside the app.
No additional software required — just install and use IPTVnator.
This is an early experimental version and feedback is very welcome.
🧭 Layout & Navigation
- Toggleable sidebar panel for Live TV channels for a more focused viewing experience
- Toggle/collapse EPG panel
⚡ Command Palette Improvements
- Change player directly from command palette
- Added section with 5 recently used actions
⭐ Favorites & Recently Viewed
- Fixed issue where Live TV items appeared favorited by default
- Channels can now be favorited directly from Recently Viewed
- Remove individual channels from Recently Viewed via context menu
- Renamed "GLOBAL Favorites" to simply "Favorites"
📺 Playback & Playlist Management
- Fixed MPV/VLC custom path fallback handling
- Added manual refresh for playlists added from filesystem
- Fixed playlist refresh handling for file-based playlists
📦 Module Improvements
M3U
- Cover size setting (XL / L / M)
- Sorting for “All Channels”:
- by name
- by original playlist order
- Improved channel drag & drop ghost styling
Xtream
- Better unavailable portal handling
- Added clear button to playlist form
- Fixed search when no category is selected
Stalker
- Fixed “14 items” issue
🎨 UI & UX Improvements
- Improved category count badge styling
- Improved “No results found” screen styling
🚀 Performance & Internal Improvements
- Performance improvements to reduce loading times
- Database WAL improvements
- Favorites lookup optimizations
- Refactored settings component
- Additional facade/internal refactors
🌍 Localization
- Added missing translation strings for all supported languages
🛠 Other Fixes & Improvements
- Fixed loading screen issues in download manager
- Fixed reset Recently Viewed for M3U module
⬇️ Download
GitHub Releases:
https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/releases
💙 Support the project
If you like IPTVnator and want to support further development:
- GitHub Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/4gray
- Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/4gray
🙏 Huge thanks to everyone who donated and supported the project,
as well as contributors and all the people who tested the app,
provided feedback, reported issues, and shared ideas on how to improve it.
Full Changelog: v0.20.0...v0.21.0