TiviMate Premium in 2026: Cost, Features & Free vs Paid

TiviMate Premium is one of those upgrades people buy in a hurry and then wonder what they actually got. It is cheap, it is more or less a one-time payment, and the upgrade screen makes it sound essential. Before you tap buy, here is the plain version: what it costs, what it unlocks, what the free app already does, and the one thing Premium will never hand you no matter how much you pay.

How much does TiviMate Premium cost?

Not much, and that is part of why people grab it without thinking twice. TiviMate sells Premium two ways: a small yearly fee, or a one-time lifetime unlock for a bit more. The exact figures move around with region and the odd sale, so check the live price inside the TiviMate Companion app rather than trusting a number you read on some random blog. Either way you are looking at the cost of a couple of coffees a year, or one slightly bigger payment that never comes back.

What matters more than the number: this is a fee for the *app*, paid to the *app maker*. It has nothing to do with your channels or your IPTV bill. Keep those two things separate in your head and the rest of this makes sense.

What TiviMate Premium actually unlocks

Premium turns the free player into a power-user player. The headline features:

• Multiple playlists in one app, handy if you run more than one subscription.
• Recording and a scheduler, so you can set a show to record like an old DVR.
• Picture-in-picture and multi-view on devices that support it.
• Custom channel groups, faster channel switching, and a pile of small quality-of-life touches.

If you are the type who records the match for later or runs two services side by side, these earn their keep. If you just want to turn on the TV and watch, you might never touch half of them.

Free vs Premium: what you get without paying

This trips people up, so let me be blunt: the free version of TiviMate is genuinely usable. One playlist, the full 7-day guide, favourites, a clean layout, it all works for nothing. Premium does not unlock "the proper version." It stacks extras on top of an already-good free app.

So the honest split is simple: free covers most households, Premium is for power users who want recording and multiple playlists.

The catch nobody mentions: Premium gives you zero channels

Here is the part the upgrade screen stays quiet about. TiviMate Premium, free or paid, comes with no channels. None. It is a player, the screen and the remote, not the signal. Pay for Premium and you still stare at an empty app until you feed it a subscription. We pulled this apart in Vivimate vs TiviMate: one is the app you watch through, the other is the channels themselves.

If you bought Premium expecting it to switch the channels on, that is the thing to clear up first. The channels come from an IPTV subscription, full stop.

How to buy and activate TiviMate Premium

1. Open TiviMate, go to Settings, and find the Premium or upgrade option.

2. Pay through the store or TiviMate Companion.

3. Sign in to TiviMate Companion with the same Google account to link the device.

4. If the app still shows free after paying, clear the TiviMate cache and restart it.

Activation playing up is common, and it is nearly always a Companion-login or cache issue. Our TiviMate not working guide has the fixes if it sticks.

So, is TiviMate Premium worth it?

Short answer: worth it if you want recording, multiple playlists or picture-in-picture; easy to skip if the free app already plays your subscription fine. We weighed it up properly in is TiviMate Premium worth it. Either way, the decision is about app features, not about what you can watch.

What Premium can't fix

A better player cannot rescue a worse subscription. If your streams freeze at kick-off or the guide turns up blank, Premium does nothing for that, because the buffering and the missing EPG come from the *provider*, not the app tier. Power features sit on top of a stream; they do not improve it.

That is where the subscription you pair with TiviMate decides everything. Vivimate runs high-capacity servers built for 4K, ships a properly mapped 7-day EPG, and logs into TiviMate with an Xtream Codes line in about a minute, free version or Premium, it makes no difference. Pair TiviMate's recording with a stream that actually holds up and you have the full cable-style setup. Choosing a service? Start with best IPTV for TiviMate.

The bottom line

TiviMate Premium is cheap, mostly one-time, and worth it for power users, but it is an upgrade to the *player*, not a source of channels, and it will not fix a bad stream. Buy it if you want recording and multiple playlists. Either way, the thing that decides whether TiviMate feels brilliant or maddening is the subscription behind it.

See Vivimate plans and give TiviMate something worth playing, with a 14-day money-back guarantee on the longer plans if it is not for you.