TvhClient
Luis Fernandes Entertainment iPhoneiPadiPod touch
TvhClient is a free Entertainment app for iPhone and iPad by Luis Fernandes. Rated 4.3/5 from 26 ratings. Requires iOS 16.0. Updated October 15, 2026.
- Rating
- 4.3
- 26 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 101 MB
- Age 17+
- Updated
- Oct 15
- 2026 · v5.1.1
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About TvhClient
TvhClient is a full client for your TVHeadend server: watch live TV, rewind it, browse the guide, and manage your recordings from your iPhone or iPad. WATCH • Live TV with a built-in player: pause and rewind live TV with timeshift, see the programme under the playhead, and switch channels without leaving the player • Choose your playback engine, VLCKit 4 or mpv, separately for live TV and recordings. Both deinterlace. • Picture in Picture, background audio, a draggable mini player, and a statistics overlay • Pick audio and subtitle tracks. TvhClient remembers them per channel, and remembers where you stopped in a recording. • Transcoding profiles, and an audio-only mode that picks a suitable profile for you • Connects over HTSP (timeshift, instant updates) or the HTTP API. TvhClient works out which one your network supports. BROWSE • Channel groups, channels with now/next and progress, and each channel's programmes by day • "Now" shows what is on across all channels, with search and filters by group and channel • EPG now standard in iPhone, and you can rotate to landscape RECORD • Record with one tap, or create and edit recordings and AutoRec rules in editors built from your server's own settings • Upcoming, Completed, Failed, Removed and AutoRec lists, with folders • Play recordings with seeking, straight from the list ADMINISTER • Status: subscriptions, tuner inputs, networks, muxes and services • The live server log, and the app's own diagnostics EVERYWHERE • Siri and Shortcuts: "Play BBC One in TvhClient", "What's on now?", "Record this" • Spotlight search for channels, recordings and programmes • Widgets and a Live Activity for recordings • CarPlay audio, for listening to your channels in the car • Optional iCloud storage for your servers, and sync of track choices and resume positions with the Apple TV app • Several servers, with Bonjour discovery. A server can name a public address to fall back on when you're away from home. • A redesigned interface for iOS 26, with a Help section in Settings. It also runs on Apple Silicon Macs as an iPad app. Works with tvheadend 3.2 and up. Transcoding needs tvheadend 4.x profiles. HTSP timeshift needs timeshift enabled on the server. Also available for Apple TV. Your audio and subtitle choices and recording resume positions sync between them. Support: [email protected] or http://chat.tvhclient.com
Ratings & reviews
4.3
26 ratings
What’s new
Version 5.1.1 · Updated October 15, 2026
Fixed pausing live TV flooding the server with requests; resuming now continues where you paused. Fixed the previous channel's picture showing when starting something new with mpv, and no picture after turning audio-only on and off. The guide no longer misses programme data when the channel list is replaced. With an HTSP server, the stream profile you pick is now used, and the HTTP profiles are offered too, marked "(http)". A recording action that fails now shows a message saying what failed and why; removing a recording with no ID no longer crashes. Recordings and Status stay up to date when the server is reconnected. Server auto-discovery, the server list in Settings, the player and the Now tab use less battery and memory. New setting: Logo Contrast Backdrop, to turn off the dark/light background drawn behind some channel logos.
App privacy
The developer, Luis Fernandes, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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