Car.TV Support
Try Car.TV in one tap
Car.TV comes with no channels. To see every feature right away, tap the blue + › Sample & free channels › Add sample playlist. It contains four free live news channels published by the broadcasters themselves and two Blender open movies, and does not count toward the free plan’s one source. On the same screen, Add Free-TV channels adds the open-source Free-TV list of about 2,000 free-to-air channels.
Add your own playlist or server
- Tap the blue + at the top of any tab (Home, Live TV, Library, Saved).
- Choose the type: an M3U/M3U8 link, a file, a QR code, Xtream Codes, Plex, Jellyfin, Emby or a WebDAV share.
- Paste the link your provider gave you (and an XMLTV guide link if you have one), then tap Test & add.
Car.TV in your car
Car.TV is a CarPlay video app. It appears on the car screen in cars whose CarPlay supports video, with iOS 26.4 or later. Never watch while driving.
- Connect your iPhone to the car with a cable, or wirelessly if your car supports it, and allow CarPlay when your iPhone asks.
- On the car screen, open Car.TV.
- Browse Home, Live TV, Movies and Series and choose something to play. Videos you added from Files or Photos are at the top of Home, under My videos.
- When the car is parked, the video plays on the car display. When the car moves, CarPlay takes the picture away and the sound keeps playing, with Now Playing and the steering-wheel buttons. The video comes back when you park.
If Car.TV is not on your car screen, your car’s CarPlay may not support video yet. Car Mode and casting still work on your iPhone.
Cast to a TV
In the player, tap the cast button at the top right (it appears as soon as a TV is found on your Wi-Fi). Car.TV lists AirPlay devices, Chromecast and Google TV, and DLNA smart TVs. If none appear, check the TV is on, on the same Wi-Fi, and that Local Network is allowed for Car.TV in Settings.
Car.TV Pro
- Pro unlocks unlimited sources, Plex and WebDAV servers, the guide for the next 2 days, unlimited downloads, iCloud sync, the parental lock, and A/V sync with the stats overlay.
- Weekly, monthly and yearly plans renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Lifetime is a one-time purchase.
- Restore: Settings › Restore purchases. Cancel: Settings › Manage subscription, or in your Apple Account settings.
- For a refund, use reportaproblem.apple.com; Apple handles all payments.
A channel won’t play
- Test the same link in another player; if it fails there too, the provider is down or the link has expired.
- Some formats (for example MKV with DTS audio) can’t be decoded by iOS. Car.TV marks them “Phone only” or says so instead of showing a black screen.
- Settings › Diagnostics shows what the last attempt returned; include it when you write to us.
Credits
The films seen in Car.TV’s App Store screenshots and in its sample playlist are open movies by the Blender Foundation / Blender Studio, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (Big Buck Bunny, Elephants Dream and Sintel under CC BY 3.0): Big Buck Bunny, Elephants Dream, Sintel, Tears of Steel, Cosmos Laundromat, Caminandes, Hero, Spring and Sprite Fright — studio.blender.org. Channel names in the screenshots (Atlas News, Velocity Sports and others) are invented for the demonstration.