VortX 0.3.11 (build 157, pre-release). Build 156 plus the big one: you can now sign in to your VortX account on Apple TV by QR, not only Stremio. Everything from build 156 is here too: reorder your add-ons in the app, Apple TV returns you to the episode you are actually on after auto-play, the back-to-top button on Home and Discover, and the account and add-on security hardening, plus the build 155 Mac crash and source-list freeze fixes, Continue Watching and Play from start starting on the exact source you expect, true Dolby Vision on Apple TV, and the iPhone and iPad download fix. In testing; this becomes the 0.3.12 release once it is verified on-device. In-place update, nothing resets.
New in build 157
- Apple TV can sign in to your VortX account by QR, not only Stremio. The Apple TV sign-in screen now leads with VortX, the account that owns your add-ons, library, and cross-device sync. It shows a QR code and a short code. On your phone (or any browser) that is already signed in to VortX, scan the QR, or open vortx.tv/approve and enter the code, then approve. The Apple TV signs into your VortX account and pulls your add-ons and library. Your account key is handed to that specific TV with an end-to-end key exchange, so the relay that carries it never sees your key, and the short-lived session the TV receives is useless without it. Connecting a Stremio account (its own QR link, or email and password) is still here, now as a secondary "bring your Stremio library" step. Scan the TV's QR with your phone camera to approve it, a typed code alone is not enough because the device key travels in the QR. The vortx.tv/approve page is live.
Also in build 157 (from build 156)
- Reorder your add-ons right in the app. Add-ons has a Reorder add-ons screen: drag any add-on up or down to set the order. That order is the priority order, which add-on's catalogs and sources come first, and it is pushed to your account the moment you finish, so it converges with your other devices and the web dashboard. iPhone, iPad, and Mac (tvOS ordering stays on the dashboard, since the drag needs a touch or pointer). A configurable add-on's action buttons now also wrap instead of clipping the Remove button off the right edge on iPhone, and removing an add-on syncs to your other devices right away.
- Apple TV: Back after continuous play returns to the episode you are now on. When auto-play carried you into the next episode, or the next season, and you pressed Back or Menu, the Details page still showed the episode you first pressed play on. It now jumps to the episode you actually ended up on and highlights it.
- A back-to-top button on Home and Discover. Once you scroll past the hero, a small button appears in the bottom corner; press it to jump straight back to the top. iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
- Security hardening for your account and add-ons. Sign-in and recovery reject a weakened password-hardening setting from a spoofed server before it can touch your key. Add-on status checks no longer ping private or home-network addresses (your own on-device local add-on still works). Your encrypted account backup gains read support for a new version-bound format that stops a tampered backup server from quietly serving you an old copy; this ships read-only for now across the apps and the website so nothing breaks while every device updates, and is switched on in a later step.
- From build 155: on Mac, opening a title while its sources are still loading no longer crashes the app, and the Mac app no longer freezes or force-quits while a title's source list loads. Play from start replays the source you were watching, never a different one. Continue Watching resumes instantly when you come back soon. Downloads on iPhone and iPad no longer fail with a false "not enough storage" or a cannot-create-file error. Dolby Vision switches your Apple TV into its Dolby Vision mode, not just HDR10 (Match Dynamic Range must be on in tvOS Settings, Video and Audio, Match Content). Removing an add-on clears its sources right away, and community (Singularity) sources render inline with your other sources.
Everything from build 153 is still here too (the Add-ons screen memory fix, the Apple TV add-on-list scroll and reliable remove, the Dolby Vision watchdog on Apple TV, forced subtitles by their real flag, out-of-date-sync deletion tombstones, and the diagnostic-log clear-on-export). See CHANGELOG.md for the complete list.
Please test
- Apple TV, sign in to VortX (the new one): open Sign In on the Apple TV. It shows a QR and a code. On your phone (signed in to VortX at vortx.tv), scan the QR, then tap Approve this device. The Apple TV should sign into your VortX account and load your add-ons and library. If you are not signed in to VortX on the phone or browser yet, sign in at vortx.tv first, then scan again.
- Add-ons, 2 devices: reorder your add-ons on one device and confirm the new order shows up on another device and on the web dashboard. Remove an add-on and confirm it disappears on the other device quickly.
- Apple TV, back to episode: start a series, let auto-play carry you into a later episode, then press Back or Menu. Details should land on the episode you ended up on.
- Mac: open a popular movie with a huge source list, like Dune: Part Two, while its sources are still loading, and open and close a few titles in a row. It should never crash or force-quit and should stay responsive.
- iPhone or iPad: download a large file, including with the screen locked. It should finish.
- Apple TV: play a true Dolby Vision file (including a Profile 7 Blu-ray remux) with Match Dynamic Range on, and confirm the TV shows Dolby Vision, not HDR10.
Install
Mac (.dmg, easiest, never expires). Download VortX-macOS-v0.3.11-b157-ci.dmg, drag VortX into Applications, then clear Apple's one-time quarantine: open it once, click Done, then System Settings > Privacy & Security > Open Anyway (or run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/VortX.app). Full guide: Install on Mac.
iPhone, iPad, Apple TV (sideload the IPA). The IPAs are unsigned, because VortX is open-source and distributed outside the App Store with no Apple Developer ID yet, so you re-sign them yourself with Sideloadly, AltStore / SideStore, or Signulous. No jailbreak. Full guide: Installing on iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV.
Each asset lists a SHA-256 checksum (SHA256SUMS-ci.txt) so you can confirm your download matches what the public GitHub Actions workflow built from this code.