Cluttered provider labels become readable channel names. Categories can be simplified, renamed, hidden, or reordered without rewriting the source.
Your provider gives you channels. Lineup turns them into television.
Lineup is an Apple-native player and organizer for lawful, user-supplied IPTV sources. It takes Xtream and M3U catalogs and turns them into Live TV, movies, series, and a usable guide.
- Creator
- Ivan Minier
- Context
- Tideframe Labs
- Role
- Creator — product, interface, and engineering
- Year
- 2026
- Status
- In development
- Platforms
- iPhone · iPad · Apple TV Mac planned Public 1.0 is being built for iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV. A native Mac app is planned on the same engine and is not shipping yet.
Lineup Intelligence
Playback is table stakes. The catalog is the product.
Provider names, categories, logos, and guide data arrive as a pile. Lineup Intelligence derives a television lineup without rewriting the source.
Raw provider
What arrives- USA | HARBOR-NEWS HD USA HD · no logo
- VIP-US | meridian_world INTL?? · no guide
- US MOVIES ABC 1080 VOD / MIX · wrong bin
- espn usa east fhd SPORT · dup stream
- BBCWORLD-NEWS-UK news_us · bad country
- MTVHits_HE MISC · noise suffix
Lineup Intelligence
Television
What you watch- Harbor News News · logo + guide
- Meridian World News · matched
- ABC Movies · recategorized
- ESPN Sports · primary stream
- BBC World News News · normalized
- MTV Hits Music · cleaned
Illustrative names only. Lineup organizes catalogs supplied by the person using it.
The pile
Most IPTV sources arrive as a pile of names, categories, missing logos, and half-matched guide data. The player usually just plays whatever it is given.
What Lineup keeps vs. what it shows
Lineup treats the provider feed as evidence, not as the interface. It keeps the original catalog intact, then derives cleaner names, categories, logos, order, and guide matches. The person watching television should not have to decode a playlist.
What it can do
Missing artwork can be filled from verified sources. Lineup matches schedules to channels, including automatic guide support for Xtream and M3U, with optional external guide sources such as EPGShare01.
The same organized catalog becomes Home, Live TV, Movies, Series, a program guide, and the lists people actually use.
Lineup is a player and organizer. It does not provide, host, sell, or recommend channels, movies, series, or subscriptions.
Why this shape
The hard problem is not another play button. It is turning a raw catalog into something a person can actually watch. Lineup Intelligence exists so the product can do that work once, then stay out of the way.
Public 1.0 is being built for iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV. A native Mac app is planned on the same engine and is not shipping yet.
Lineup is not an IPTV service. It does not sell channels or host streams.
