Hybrid post-quantum cryptography built in

Limpido

Clear Streaming

One calm, native app for your IPTV line: M3U / Xtream / Stalker, EPG guide, catch-up TV, recordings, multi-view — with a native app for Android TV.

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Windows, Linux, Android, iPhone and iPad. Seven days free, no card required.

Limpido playing Red Bull TV live, the full player controls on screen.

The live list filtered to US news stations — six hundred channels deep.

17 MB

On iPhone, engine included

~1 s

Channel start

Bundled decoders on iPhone

FIPS 204

PQ signatures

The engine

We ship an engine, not a wrapper.

Players this small are usually a shell around a web view. Players this capable usually bundle a 50 MB copy of ffmpeg. On iPhone — the hardest platform — Limpido is neither: a Rust core reads the stream itself and hands compressed frames straight to the hardware decoder, and the whole app is 17 MB. On every other platform we tell you exactly what ships and why, in the table below. Ask any other player for the same table.

Its own demuxers

MPEG-TS and Matroska are read in Rust, not by a bundled library. Live TV plays on an iPhone with zero decoders on board, and so do .mkv films — with their audio languages and subtitles, and offline once downloaded.

Straight to silicon

Compressed samples go directly to the hardware: AVSampleBufferDisplayLayer on Apple, Media3 on Android, libmpv on desktop. Channels start in about a second.

Playback that heals itself

Lip-sync is measured every two seconds and corrected on a graduated ladder. Frozen or silent streams fail fast — and anything that goes wrong falls back to the system player, automatically, per title.

The formats panels actually use

HLS, MPEG-TS, MKV, MP4, DASH with ClearKey. M3U, Xtream and Stalker portals — films and series included, not live TV only. HEVC repackaged on the fly where the system refuses it. Catch-up, four multi-view shapes and a connection budget that respects your line.

Every platform, declared

Real numbers from the builds we actually ship — because trust is a table, not a slogan.

Platform	Who reads the stream	Who decodes	Download
iPhone & iPad	Limpido (Rust)	Apple’s silicon, directly	17 MB
Android	Limpido’s transport road + Google’s Media3	The phone’s hardware codecs	55 MB — 64- and 32-bit ARM in one file
Android TV & Fire TV	Limpido (Rust), the same core	The panel’s hardware codecs, through Media3	25 MB — its own app, not the phone build
Windows	mpv, bundled on purpose	Your GPU, through mpv	71 MB (.msi)
Linux	mpv, bundled on purpose	Your GPU, through mpv	66 MB (.deb) · 219 MB (AppImage)

Why mpv on desktop: there is no hardware decoding API you can trust across every PC and distro, and mpv is the best open engine alive — so we ship it, say so, and pay the megabytes honestly. The phone APK carries builds for 64- and 32-bit ARM in one file; your device installs only its own. The television gets a separate application instead — a native interface for a remote control, and 25 MB because it needs no WebView.

IPTV player

Your playlists, finally treated with respect.

Four things a player has to get right before any of the rest matters. Limpido gets all four right on a phone, a tablet and a television.

01
Bring your own playlist

An M3U address, an M3U file, or an Xtream Codes account. Credentials are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM, and a list of two hundred thousand channels opens without complaint.
02
A guide that knows what time it is

The XMLTV guide refreshes every six hours in the background. Open it and the grid is already on the current hour — tap a programme to jump straight to it.
03
Go back in time

Xtream, Stalker and Ministra portals, and any playlist that declares an archive. Jump back an hour, three, six, a day — or pick the exact moment out of the guide, and Limpido pulls the recording.
04
Even with no line at all

Keep films and episodes from your own subscription on the device. For the plane, the metro, or a connection that comes and goes — they play in airplane mode.

Stream health + recent

A coloured dot on every row tells you which channels worked the last three times you tried them. A Recent tab brings back the last 50 you watched.

Android TV, native

A television app in its own right: an interface built for the remote, hardware decoding, leanback launcher — and sign-in without typing, a code on the screen approved from your phone. Sideload the APK on any Android 8+ device: Chromecast Google TV, Sony Bravia, Mi Box, phones and tablets too.

Works with: M3UM3U8Xtream CodesHLS (multi-CDN)XMLTV EPGTimeshift

Limpido is a player. You bring the playlist. We do not host, distribute, or proxy third-party content.

Multi-view

Four at once. The sound follows your eyes.

Point at a tile and it takes the audio; the other three fall silent. That is not a website trick — it is exactly what the app does when you pick a cell with a click or with the remote. Try it. The app offers four shapes, up to nine tiles; this is the classic one.

The actual screen, recorded — free 24/7 channels, the line badge, and a slot swapping live. Nothing staged.

The living room

It ends up on the biggest screen anyway.

IPTV lives on the television. Limpido now runs on Android TV as a native app — its own remote-first interface, frames decoded in hardware, the same Rust core you read about above driving that screen. Pair it from your phone: a code on the television, six digits to compare, and your library walks onto the biggest screen by itself.

A television on a living-room wall showing Limpido playing a live channel.

Limpido on the television — the same app, the same library, the biggest seat in the house.

Library sync

Set it up once. It follows you everywhere.

Your playlists, your favourites, and the exact second you stopped watching — on every device you sign in from, encrypted so thoroughly that we could not read them if we wanted to.

01
Off until you turn it on

Nothing leaves the device until you ask it to. Turning it off again, or deleting your account, deletes what we hold.
02
One device lets the next one in

A new device is admitted from one you already use: six digits to compare on both screens, and the library arrives. The television included — paired from the phone, no password typed with the arrows. The key never reaches our servers: no escrow, no recovery path on our side.
03
Pick up exactly where you stopped

Pause an episode on the phone, open the tablet, and it is waiting at the same second. What we store is bytes we cannot read.

Encrypted on your device before it leaves it — what we store is bytes we cannot read.

The key never reaches our servers. No administrative procedure, no escrow, no recovery path on our side.

A new device is let in from one you already use: six digits to compare, and the library arrives.

Pause an episode on the phone, finish it on the computer.

Off until you turn it on. Turning it off, or deleting your account, deletes what we hold.

One app, every screen you own

Windows

10 and 11 · x64

Linux

AppImage and .deb · x64

Android

Phone, tablet and TV — native TV app · 8.0 and later

iPhone & iPad

Its own playback engine — frames go straight to the hardware decoder

macOS is on the way. Your library follows you across all of them.

Three steps. Zero friction.

Limpido is built for the moment you sit down and want to watch something — not configure it.

01

Open Limpido

Cold-start in under a second. The chrome stays out of your way: a slim sidebar, a draggable window, and your video front-and-centre.
02

Pick your stream

Paste a link, browse a profile, or jump to a saved favourite. Multi-profile keeps your work and personal sessions completely separate.
03

Watch in peace

Native playback, no overlays, no popups, no surprises. Toggle focus mode, dock to PiP, or send to background audio at any time.

Everything you need, nothing you don't

Built from scratch in Rust + Svelte. No Electron. No telemetry. Every feature is native, fast, and stays out of your way.

Recordings

Record what is on until it ends, a programme from the guide, or every episode of a show. Saved as HLS, so you can scrub it — even while it is still recording.

Pause live TV

Pause a channel and pick up where you stopped, up to two hours back.

Offline downloads

Films, episodes and archived programmes, for the plane or the metro. A series is one row with its seasons inside, not sixty files.

Native playback

Our own engine demuxes; your hardware decodes. Smooth 4K at a fraction of the CPU.

Lightweight

17 MB on iPhone, engine included. Cold start in under a second. No Electron, no Flutter, no bundled ffmpeg.

The whole guide

Every XMLTV field — episode, season, categories, artwork — extra guide sources per playlist with a time offset, and the guides of Stalker portals too.

Picture-in-picture

Keep the channel floating above everything else while you do something else.

Post-quantum security

Every signature and key exchange uses hybrid Ed25519 + ML-DSA-65 / ML-KEM-768. Future-proof by design.

Security that outlives today's threats

Every license, every update, every key exchange uses hybrid classical + post-quantum cryptography. Ed25519 paired with ML-DSA-65 (FIPS 204) for signatures. X25519 paired with ML-KEM-768 for key agreement.

Dual-signed licenses (Ed25519 + ML-DSA-65)

Dual-signed updates with rollback protection

Application-layer hybrid encryption over TLS

Device-bound keys via OS keystore + Argon2id

End-to-end encrypted library sync

Constant-time verification everywhere

Anti-tamper: the app verifies its own binary at start

Signed kill-switch with anti-replay — even an emergency cannot be forged

Open-source content-script (MIT)

How we compare

Measured against the usual IPTV players.

The honest scorecard — including the places where the incumbents still lead, and what we are doing about them.

	Limpido	The usual players
Playback engine	Its own — Rust demuxes, your hardware decodes	A wrapper around the system player
iPhone & iPad	Its own sample-level engine — live TV, and .mkv films with their audio languages and subtitles	Absent, or an old wrapper with a dated interface
Windows & Linux	Native apps, same library	Nothing — a VLC window and good luck
Library sync	End-to-end encrypted; we cannot read it	A server that stores your playlists in the clear, or nothing
A channel that freezes	Plays on, from another listing of the same channel	You notice, and you change it yourself
Whose guide is whose	Correct a wrong one once; the fix follows you to your other devices	Fix it again on every device, if you can fix it at all
Children	Their own profile, filtered by rating, locked by a PIN worth the name	A PIN over the adult folder, and a digest of it on disk
Security	Signed updates, anti-tamper, post-quantum signatures	Not part of the conversation
App size	17 MB with the engine inside	50–80 MB of bundled decoders
Television remote-first UI	A native TV app on the same Rust core — remote-first, hardware decoding, recordings, pause live TV, a full guide, paired in from the phone	Their home turf, and years of polish
Recordings (DVR)	Record until it ends, from the guide, or every episode of a show — and pause live TV	Available, usually behind their premium tier
Offline downloads	Films, episodes and archived programmes, on iPhone too — a series is one row with its seasons	Often missing, or a flat list of files

Comparison with the popular IPTV players of 2026, unnamed on purpose: their features move, ours are verifiable in the app you can download for free below.

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