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🚨 Lifetime Price Increase.

We've decided to postpone the Vortexo Lifetime price increase until **August 1**.

The Lifetime membership will remain at **US$49.99** until **July 31**. Starting **August 1**, the price will increase to **US$149.99**.

If you've been thinking about getting Lifetime, you now have one more month to lock in the current price and keep Lifetime access forever at **US$49.99**.

Thank you to everyone who has supported Vortexo during its early development. ❤️

Fixed:

- Fixed several playback and navigation issues.

- Fixed Performance and improvements across the app.

Starting July 1, the Vortexo Lifetime membership price will increase from US$49.99 to US$149.99.

If you've been thinking about getting Lifetime, now is the best time. Anyone who purchases before July 1 will keep Lifetime access forever at the current US$49.99 price.

Thank you to everyone who has supported Vortexo during its early development. ❤️

Warning:

- This Build Must be Fresh Installed.

Fixed:

- Trakt Continue Watching integration now fits into the same Home/Settings source model instead of mixing randomly with local/Plex/Nuvio rows.

- Continue Watching landscape artwork enrichment was improved so episode cards can use the better Trakt-style landscapes beyond Trakt-only items.

- Continue Watching metadata repair was adjusted to preserve routing IDs and artwork, instead of constantly re-repairing or losing the episode path.

- Local Continue Watching refresh was made less noisy during playback so Home does not keep rebuilding rows while video is active.

- Custom side tab can now exit into Search instead of trapping focus on the side rail.

- Search now has a proper focus landing state, even when there are no recent searches/results yet.

- Home now marks collection folders and catalog folder routes as nested navigation, so the custom side tab hides instead of staying active behind them.

- Inside a Nuvio collection folder, pressing back now pops in the right order:detail view -> collection/catalog sub-route -> folder root -> Home.

- Added local back handling for media/detail routes opened from inside collection folders.

- Nuvio Connect streams now stay scoped to the selected episode instead of showing the whole series.

- Playback cleanup improved when pressing Back/Menu so audio stops faster.

- Sidebar focus can return to Home rows from any side tab icon.

- Sidebar no longer opens Settings just from moving focus back to rows.

- Hero info alignment adjusted to match catalogue rows.

- Profile icon in side tab now opens the profile window.

- Profile window focus no longer stays behind Home4.

- Continue Watching in app now better matches Apple TV Top Shelf.

- Top Shelf artwork selection improved for Continue Watching.

- Bad Metahub logo URL handling fixed.

- Home browsing lag reduced by using local Nuvio snapshots, pagination, and background refresh.

- Blank/late-loading media cards improved while artwork enrichment is pending.

Added:

- Added Continue Watching source selection in Settings so only one source is used instead of merging everything: Local/Plex/Nuvio Connect/Trakt

- Hid provider-specific Continue Watching choices when that provider is not connected.

- Hid provider-specific Settings tabs/options for Plex/Nuvio when they are not connected, while still keeping connect options visible.

- New side tab style.

- Settings option to switch between original sidebar and new side tab.

- Profile picker / add profile / manage profile / edit profile flow.

- Local Nuvio Home snapshot store.

- Nuvio stream episode-scope unit test.

- Trakt enabled in Settings for testing.

- Continue Watching/Top Shelf metadata repair and artwork priority logic.

Fixed:

- Top Shelf extension CFBundleVersion now matches app build 26.

- Fixed Top Shelf not showing Continue Watching episodes.

- Fixed Metahub logo loading so Continue Watching logos can appear.

- Fixed Prefer Episode Thumbnails toggle behavior:ON = episode still thumbnails. OFF = series/backdrop landscape artwork.

- Fixed mixed artwork where some episodes showed thumbnails and others showed series art.

- Fixed Continue Watching logo overlay fallback to text when no logo exists.

Improved:

- Nuvio Continue Watching / Next Up import behavior.

- Improved new episode / new season badge handling.

- Improved watched/unwatched handling so next-up rows can refresh correctly.

- Improved startup and home loading performance by avoiding heavy repeated refresh work.

- Improved episode/season detail loading from Continue Watching rows.

Added / Improved:

- Nuvio-style Continue Watching support for watched series with available next episodes.

- New Episode, New Season, and Next Up badges.

- Series logo overlay on landscape Continue Watching cards.

- Better Plex/public/Nuvio/TMDB artwork fallback chain.

- Top Shelf support for local/Nuvio Continue Watching episodes.

Hi everyone,

Nuvio has grown a lot recently, and with all the new users joining and supporting the app, we are upgrading and moving our servers to keep things more stable and scalable going forward.

There will be a maintenance period in July. The exact date will be announced later.

Before the maintenance happens, please make sure you are updated to at least 0.7.9 Beta on Android TV and 0.2.9 Beta on mobile. Desktop and webOS users are also requested to be on the latest version.

These versions include the backend switch support needed for the server move.

Once the switch happens, users on older versions will no longer be able to sync new data to the database. Those versions will become read only, so existing data can still be accessed, but new changes will not sync.

During the switch, users on supported versions will be logged out from all Nuvio clients and will need to log in again. There will also be an expected downtime of around 1–2 hours during the maintenance period.

Your data will not be wiped or affected. Until the switch is completed, Nuvio will either stay read only or stop syncing new data. After the switch is done and you log in again, syncing will continue normally.

Also, the Nuvio backend will be open source in the near future, and users will be able to self host their own backend.

Thank you for supporting and using Nuvio.

Things have been very quiet lately, and I'm curious how everyone's experience has been.

• Any bugs you've found? • Features you'd like to see added? • Anything confusing or difficult to use? • What do you like most so far?

Even if everything is working perfectly, I'd love to hear what you're using Vortexo for and what you'd like to see in future updates.

Don't be shy — feedback, bug reports, and feature requests are what help make Vortexo better. 🚀

To support ongoing development of Vortexo, the Lifetime plan price will increase to US$150 on July 1, 2026.

If you've been considering Lifetime, you can still purchase it at the current price until June 30, 2026.

Since launch, Vortexo has continued to grow with new features, performance improvements, Nuvio Connect beta, and upcoming Android TV support. The price adjustment helps support future development and maintenance of the platform.

Thank you to everyone who has supported the project so far. ❤️

What’s New:

Improved artwork loading across Home, Continue Watching, media rows, and collection folders.

Added better landscape artwork support for movie and series cards when enhanced metadata is available.

Improved Nuvio Connect collection folder support on Home.

Added better handling for collection folders, including Discover, Streaming, Genres, Themes, Studios, Decades, Runtime, and World rows.

Improved trailer availability handling so trailer controls only appear when a playable trailer source is available.

Fixes:

Fixed Continue Watching behavior after episode playback finishes, so completed episodes now update watch state and surface the correct Next Up episode automatically.

Fixed some media cards showing empty artwork or incorrect fallback images.

Fixed cases where card artwork and hero background artwork could use the wrong image type.

Fixed some Continue Watching cards using inconsistent artwork.

Fixed collection folders sometimes using incorrect media artwork instead of their configured folder artwork.

Fixed some collection folders opening to empty rows when valid sources were available.

Fixed trailer controls appearing when playback was not available.

Fixed several artwork, metadata, and UI stability issues.

What to Test:

Home rows load artwork correctly.

Continue Watching uses the expected artwork.

Collection folders open and display rows where sources are available.

Hero backgrounds and card artwork look consistent.

Quick update about Trakt:

I found that Trakt integration is currently causing startup lag, focus freezes, and slow browsing for some users. Because of that, I’m temporarily marking Trakt as Under Construction while I rebuild/stabilize that part properly.

Your local Vortexo Continue Watching will still work normally. After app updates, your current local Continue Watching should remain there. You should only lose it if you delete/reinstall the app fresh, clear app data, or switch to a completely fresh install.

For now, Vortexo will keep saving progress locally on the Apple TV, so you can still continue watching without Trakt connected. Trakt will come back once it is stable enough and does not affect the Home screen or playback performance.

Thanks for the patience and feedback. This helps a lot while I keep improving the tvOS version.

Added:

Nuvio/account-based source syncing.

Nuvio collections and folders on Home.

Selected collections support.

Built-in resolver for Nuvio TMDB and public Trakt collection sources.

Custom badge JSON support for stream badges.

Nuvio-style Continue Watching card layout.

Local addon/Nuvio watch progress and watch-state tracking.

Search cinematic genre card grid.

Dolby Vision/DV5 detection and safer player routing.

Native tvOS keyboard behavior for input fields.

Fixed:

Fixed Home startup/cache behavior for Nuvio/manifest rows.

Fixed collection/folder artwork display.

Fixed collection rows showing unwanted text/logos when hidden by JSON.

Fixed collection focus behavior to better match other rows.

Reduced collection GIF stutter by disabling focused GIF playback on collection folders.

Fixed addon/Nuvio stream playback path.

Fixed player behavior so only the selected stream opens.

Fixed subtitle menu filtering for selected subtitle settings.

Hid Plex subtitle option when Plex is not connected.

Fixed watched/unwatched menu so it only shows the correct action.

Fixed Continue Watching not showing local addon/Nuvio progress.

Fixed Top Shelf using stale/nonexistent Continue Watching entries.

Fixed Search square focus outline on media cards.

Hid Plex Picks/Plex Discover in Search when Plex is not connected.

Aligned Top Shelf extension version/build with the main app.

Vortexo 1.2.0 improves tvOS browsing, Nuvio connect, playback reliability, artwork loading, Live TV guide behavior, and source handling. It also adds account-based syncing for user-provided compatible sources and includes general stability fixes.