Klave is a media player. It does not provide, sell, or include any channels or content — you supply your own playlist. That single principle shapes everything about the app.
What Klave is
Klave ships with no pre-loaded playlists and no providers. You bring an M3U URL or an Xtream Codes login for a service you already subscribe to, and Klave handles playback, organization, and discovery. It is the same footing as VLC or Infuse: a beautiful front-end for content you already have access to.
You bring the playlist. Klave brings the player.
What Klave never does
Klave does not host, bundle, sell, rank, or recommend any source of content. It will never be the place you go to get channels, movies, or sports. When we build features like sports pages, they read only the channels already in your own playlist — never a catalog we supply.
Why it is built this way
Neutrality is also a privacy architecture. Because Klave is only a player, there is no account to create, no catalog server to phone home to, and nothing tracking what you watch. Your credentials stay in your device Keychain, and your favorites and history sync only through your own private iCloud. Less to provide means less to leak.
Notes and guides from the people building the native IPTV player for Apple devices.