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Purple IPTV / Purple Player alternative: how RIPTV compares

Purple IPTV and Purple Player are popular IPTV apps. If you're weighing up other options, here's what RIPTV does and how to try it.

Where Purple Player shines

Purple Player is known for bringing live TV, films and series together in one app across several devices. Many people find it easy to get started with.

What RIPTV does differently

  • A Netflix-style Home screen with Continue Watching, trending titles, trailers and recommendations.
  • Live TV with a full TV guide, favourites and recent channels, free.
  • With Premium: pause and rewind live TV, recording, reminders and multi-view.
  • With Premium: profiles, kids profiles by age rating and a parental PIN.
  • With Premium: downloads on phones and tablets, plus picture-in-picture and Chromecast casting.
  • One Premium licence covers up to 5 devices.

Switching is easy

  1. Find your login: in your current player's settings, or in your provider's welcome email. It's either a server, username and password (Xtream Codes) or a playlist link (M3U).
  2. Install RIPTV on your phone, tablet or TV: from Google Play, or the Amazon Appstore on a Fire TV.
  3. Enter the same details. You don't need a new subscription or a new login from your provider.
  4. Keep your old player installed while you try RIPTV. Both can use the same login, though watching on both at once uses two of your provider's connections.

Try it free

RIPTV is free, with no sign-up or card, and every new install gets 7 days of Premium free. Premium is £4.99 a year or £12.99 once, on up to 5 devices.

Product names belong to their owners. RIPTV isn't affiliated with Purple IPTV or Purple Player. Features of other apps change, so check their current version.

A note on what RIPTV is

RIPTV is a player. It doesn't come with channels, films or series: you add the IPTV service you already subscribe to. Only use services you have the right to watch.

Questions

Do I need a new subscription from my provider?

No. RIPTV uses the same Xtream Codes login or M3U playlist you already have.

Can I use RIPTV on more than one device?

Yes. The free version works on any device, and Premium covers up to 5 devices with sync between them.

Get RIPTV free

No sign-up, no card, and 7 days of Premium free. On phones, tablets, Android TV and Fire TV.

Get RIPTV

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