TiviMate Review: Free vs Premium, and Which Screens It Runs On

A word on who is writing. We sell Vivimate, an IPTV subscription, and TiviMate is one of several players our customers put it in. We have no tie to Armobsoft FZE, the developer, and nobody paid for this page. Every statement about the app below comes from the developer's Google Play listing and its own website, both read on November 10, 2026. This page reports no measurements of our own, so it gives no score and picks no winner; it tells you who the app suits and where it stops.

Who TiviMate suits, and who should skip it

Start with the screen you watch on, because that settles more than any feature list. TiviMate is a TV app first. If your main screen is an Android TV, a Google TV box or a Fire TV stick that still runs Fire OS, it is a strong candidate. If you watch mostly on a phone, an iPad, an Apple TV or a Roku, this app isn't for you, and the sections below say what to use instead.

• A good fit: someone who browses live TV with a remote, wants a channel grid that looks like cable, and has a Google TV or Android TV device.
• A partial fit: a Fire OS stick owner who doesn't mind installing through the Downloader app rather than Amazon's store.
• Not a fit: a household standardized on Apple devices or Roku, or anyone who wants one app on the TV and the phone alike.

What the developer says TiviMate is

The listing is unusually plain about the app's limits. It calls TiviMate “a media player only” that “does not provide any content”, and says you must add your own playlists to watch anything. It accepts three playlist formats: M3U, Xtream Codes and Stalker Portal. The developer also says it isn't affiliated with any content provider and doesn't endorse illegal sources. The listing was last updated on June 22, 2026.

That split explains most of the confusion we see in support chats. A paid upgrade sounds as if it should add something to watch, yet the listing says any paid subscription or upgrade “unlocks application features only”. Channels always come from the playlist, and the playlist always comes from whoever sells it. Whether that seller holds the rights to what it streams is the real legal question, covered in our guide on whether IPTV is legal.

What it does well, going by its feature list

The listing names the features below, and its one-line summary puts the TV guide, catch-up, recording and multiview up front.

The guide grid is the heart of it: the app is built so that a remote's arrow keys move through a schedule the way they would on a cable box. What fills that grid is your provider's guide data, so empty or wrong listings usually trace back to the playlist rather than the player; our fixes for a TV guide that won't load cover both sides. Catch-up also depends on the provider supporting it on that channel, and multiview plays several channels at once on one screen, which uses several streams from your plan.

TiviMate free vs TiviMate Premium

Here is the honest part of any TiviMate free vs Premium comparison: the developer's listing names its features without saying which ones are paid, and tivimate.com showed no feature table when we read it. So we won't present a split as fact. What the developer does confirm is this:

• The app itself downloads free, and in-app purchases show as a range of $0.99 to $33.99 per item on Google Play, which doesn't say which item is the upgrade or what it costs in your country.
• On devices without Google Play, such as Fire OS sticks, TiviMate Premium is unlocked through a separate TiviMate Companion app, which the developer says is not an IPTV player.
• The upgrade unlocks app features and includes no channels or streams.

In practice, the free app is the right place to start. Add a playlist, watch for a few evenings, and open the upgrade screen inside the app: it lists what the paid version adds and its current price. Buy only if one of those extras is something you'd use every week. Avoid copies offered as “unlocked” on file sites; they aren't the developer's, and an app like this stores your login.

TiviMate on Roku, Apple TV, Samsung and phones

The developer says TiviMate is designed for Android TV and remote control navigation, and not optimized for touch devices such as phones or tablets. We found no version from it for Roku, Apple TV or smart TV systems like Samsung's, and listings using the TiviMate name on those stores don't come from Armobsoft FZE. Your IPTV login isn't tied to one app, though, so a different player shows the same channels.

For TiviMate on Roku, the practical answer is hardware: a Google TV or Fire OS stick in a spare HDMI port turns a Roku TV into a TiviMate screen. On Apple TV, UHF (tvOS 17 or later) and IPTVX (tvOS 16 or later) both name Xtream logins on their App Store pages, read November 10, 2026. Our IPTV apps by device page lists players for the rest, and our IPTV Smarters Pro review covers the multi-platform alternative.

Using TiviMate with Vivimate

A Vivimate login is a server URL, username and password, which is the Xtream Codes option in TiviMate's add-playlist screen. Ask for a free 24-hour trial on WhatsApp, with no card; the three details arrive in the chat. Install TiviMate, choose Xtream Codes, enter them, and the channel list loads before the guide fills in. Our step-by-step TiviMate setup for Vivimate shows each field. Plans are prepaid with no contract and no auto-renewal, and TiviMate Premium, if you want it, is a separate purchase from its developer:

Compare terms on Vivimate plans and prices, or ask for a trial login on WhatsApp and try it in TiviMate on your own TV tonight.

Is TiviMate worth it?

If you own the right screen, yes, it is worth installing: it costs nothing to try and is built around the remote. Whether TiviMate Premium is worth paying for depends on one question you can answer after a week with the free app: did you miss recording, catch-up or a second playlist? If not, keep your money. If your screen is a Roku or an Apple device, the question doesn't arise; pick a player made for it.

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Sources

Read November 10, 2026: TiviMate IPTV Player on Google Play (developer, formats, feature list, device note, content statement, in-app purchase range, update date); TiviMate Companion on Google Play; tivimate.com (its page description); App Store pages for UHF and IPTVX. Vivimate prices and trial: our pricing page.

Couldn't read: tivimate.com renders its page body in the browser, and our reader got only its title and description, so no free-versus-paid feature table or TiviMate Premium price from the developer appears here.