Loppy

Features

Live TV, made from what you already have.

Loppy works on its own, straight to your media server: no account, no set-up beyond signing in. Here’s what’s on the TV today, and what’s coming to loppy.tv.

Local mode

Straight to your media server.

The app talks to Plex, Jellyfin or Emby on its own. Plex works today; Jellyfin and Emby are next.

Channels made for you

Every genre with ten or more films, your collections and playlists, shows with twenty or more episodes, and what’s just been added to each library.

Numbers that stay put

Genres from 1, collections from 200, playlists from 400, big shows from 500 and new arrivals from 900, so a channel keeps its number.

Always something on

Every channel runs a schedule all day. Shuffled channels reshuffle each time round, so nothing comes back in the same order.

A guide that’s there at once

Loppy keeps an index of your library on the TV, so the guide opens straight away and keeps up with what you add.

Plays straight from the server

No copies and nothing in between. A file your TV can’t decode is played through your server’s own transcoder instead.

Signing in by code

With Plex, the TV shows a short code and you enter it on your phone, so your password never touches the TV.

Layouts

Four ways to see what’s on.

The tabs at the top of the screen switch between them, and Loppy remembers your choice.

The Guide layout, with Clifford the Big Red Dog selected on channel 18, Children.
Guide The TV-guide grid: channels down the side, time across in half hours, and the selected programme above, with its poster.
The Live guide, with channel 18 playing in the corner above the grid.
Live guide The guide with the highlighted channel playing above it, muted, after a moment’s pause so scrolling stays quick.
The Mosaic layout: film posters for what’s on each channel.
Mosaic A wall of what’s on now, one poster per channel, with the time left on each.
The Channels layout: a list of channels, with Clifford the Big Red Dog’s details beside it.
Channels A channel list, with the focused channel’s details, poster and what’s up next beside it.

Compact rows shorten the guide to one line per programme, and the channel list to one line per channel, so more channels fit on the screen. Plus

Looks

Seventeen looks, from frosted glass to Christmas.

A look changes the whole app: colours, type, corners, even scanlines. Glass and Frosted come free; Loppy Plus opens the rest.

The Live guide in the Frosted look: the programme’s artwork fills the screen behind frosted glass.
Frosted
The Live guide in the Midnight look: pure black with blue highlights.
Midnight
The Live guide in the Cable Blue look: royal blue panels and yellow highlights.
Cable Blue

  • Glass Free

    Frosted panels over the programme’s artwork

  • Frosted Free

    The poster fills the screen, behind frosted glass

  • Popcorn Plus

    Loppy’s own butter yellow on charcoal

  • Standard Plus

    The original amber on warm black

  • Midnight Plus

    Pure black, high contrast

  • Cable Blue Plus

    The classic cable-box guide

  • Dynamic Plus

    Colours taken from the artwork

  • Cinema Plus

    Near-black with a red accent

  • Daylight Plus

    Light, for daytime viewing

  • Synthwave Plus

    80s neon over a sunset grid

  • Retro Guide Plus

    The late-80s guide channel, scrolling by itself

  • Teletext Plus

    Blocky pages in bright colours

  • VHS Plus

    A video recorder’s blue screen

  • Phosphor Plus

    Green on an old terminal

  • Halloween Plus

    Pumpkin orange under a harvest moon

  • Christmas Plus

    Pine, berry red and gold, with snow

  • Kids Plus

    Bright, round and friendly

Watching

Live, but on your terms.

  • Pause and rewind live TV. Play carries on from the same point, and Back takes you to live again.
  • Start a later programme now, from its beginning, then the channel carries on from there.
  • The mini-guide browses other channels without stopping what’s playing.
  • Start on the last channel: open the app straight into what you were watching, live.
  • The quick menu switches layout, favourites and settings from anywhere.

On the remote, while watching

▲ ▼
Change channel
◀ ▶
Skip back or forward 30 seconds
▶ ❚❚
Pause, even live
OK
Open the mini-guide
Back
Back to live, then to the guide

In the guide, Menu opens the quick menu and holding OK stars a channel.

Watching full screen, with the banner showing channel 18, the film’s details, 1080p and AAC 5.1, and Shrek up next.
The banner What’s on, how far in, the picture and sound, and what’s next.
The mini-guide over the picture: a row of channel cards, with Children marked as watching.
The mini-guide Surf the other channels without leaving the film.
The quick menu over the Live guide: Guide, Live guide, Mosaic, Channels, Favourites only, Settings and Exit.
The quick menu Layouts, Favourites only and Settings, from anywhere.

Favourites

Your channels first.

Hold OK on any channel to star it. Starred channels come first in every layout, in the mini-guide and when you change channel. Once two are starred, a Favourites tab appears, and Favourites only hides the rest.

Settings: the four layouts, the looks, and the options Favourites only, Compact and Start on last channel.
Settings Favourites only, Compact rows and Start on last channel sit beside the layouts and looks.

Coming soon The loppy.tv dashboard

One lineup across every TV in the house.

Linked mode, with Household: link each TV to your loppy.tv account with a short code, and manage them all from your phone.

Every TV in step

The same channels and the same schedule on every linked TV, so the kitchen and the living room agree on what’s on.

Managed from your phone

Change the lineup on loppy.tv, and every TV has it within about a minute.

Favourites that follow you

Star a channel on one TV, and it’s starred on the others.

Keeps going offline

Each TV keeps its own copy of the lineup, so it carries on if loppy.tv can’t be reached.

Also on the way

  • Channels you build yourself Plus
  • Two servers in one guide Plus
  • Jellyfin and Emby
  • Apple TV

Free to start.

12 channels you pick and two looks, free. Loppy Plus opens everything.

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