AnalogTV for TV

About this app

Turn your Apple TV into a glowing analog television. AnalogTV is a real-time analog broadcast simulator: every picture is built from an actual composite video signal encoded, sent down a simulated RF path, and drawn onto a virtual CRT with scanlines, phosphor glow, bloom and tube geometry. Nothing is faked with filters. • TEST CARDS: the classics, faithfully reproduced: SMPTE & EBU colour bars, the Philips PM5544, BBC Test Card F, RCA Indian Head, USAF-1951 and more. • TELETEXT: a genuine SAA5050 teletext interface, the same character generator used by Ceefax and ORACLE. Browse the whole app as nested teletext pages, or leave a ticking teletext clock on the wall. • VINTAGE LOOKS: nine curated era "rooms", from a 1950s Rediffusion set to 1990s Hi-Vision, each with its own noise, colour, bloom and scanline character. • PLEX: sign in with a PIN and watch your Plex library through the same analog pipeline as everything else. • STREAMS & LIVE VIDEO: pipe HLS or RTSP streams and IPTV (M3U) playlists through the analog pipeline, with pause, rewind and fast-forward on the Siri Remote, or receive NDI sources from your network. • NDI: Watch streaming NDI sources with BYPASS mode if you want the source without any effects • PLAY: a rack of built-in arcade games rendered through the same authentic signal path. • AMBIENT MODE: a screen saver that leaves a teletext clock, snow, or colour bars glowing on your TV. • SEND TO APPLE TV: push a saved look straight from the iPhone or Mac app over the local network, and sync your look library across devices with iCloud. Designed for the 10-foot experience: the whole thing is a set of nested teletext pages you drive with the Siri Remote, with on-screen settings for overscan, picture fit, sound and the screen saver.

Menu reorganized The main menu is now Sources, Teletext, Games, Clock, Streams, NDI, Looks, Settings, and System Settings. Looks now opens straight into the built-in catalog, with My Looks and the community Gallery one row down. Test Cards moved under Sources. Settings has been split in two so nothing is crowded: Settings covers Display and Screen Saver, System Settings covers Network and System controls. Menu remembers where you left it Backing out of Settings, Gallery, My Looks, or any saved-connection list now returns you to the same row you were on, instead of scrolling back to the top every time. New: Scroll Type Up/down was always one swipe per row. This version adds an optional hold-to-drag mode for long lists — press and drag to keep scrolling instead of one swipe per row. System Settings > Scroll Type chooses Swipe (default) or Drag; switching to Drag reveals a Touch Calibration page to tune the feel to your remote. New: scan to sign in to Plex The Plex sign-in page now shows a QR code alongside the existing typed code, rendered right in the Teletext graphics. Scan it with a phone already signed in to Plex and the pairing code fills in automatically. Fixes Fixed Plex browsing failing outright when its preferred connection address didn't resolve, even though the server was reachable another way. Fixed a Plex video continuing to play after signing out. Fixed the paused-video noise bar still showing through the menu in some cases even after last version's fix. Fixed the test tone playing for every test card instead of just colour bars. Fixed colour-bars tone and Snow's hiss continuing to play under the menu. Fixed Teletext pages cropping real content (the bottom fastext row, the page number, the clock) at nonzero Overscan settings by giving every edge a proper safety margin. Fixed the menu becoming visibly corrupted after exiting a MUSE ("Hi-Vision") Look. Fixed NDI received audio drifting out of sync over a long viewing session. Also Added a toggle to turn off the on-screen source-name banner. Added a configurable refresh interval for the Headlines RSS feed. Added Headlines as a new screen-saver option alongside Clock, Snow, and Colour bars.

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1. First observed Aug 27, 2026 · 3:14 AM $5.99