What leaves your Mac

What the app stores

Playlists, channel lists, favourites and the credentials you enter for an Xtream login are written to a local database on your Mac. They stay in the app’s own storage. There is no sync, no cloud backup by the app, and no copy anywhere else. Deleting a playlist removes its channels; deleting the app removes all of it.

What the app connects to

• Your provider. Every stream, channel list and logo request goes to the host you entered. That provider sees your IP address and what you request, on their terms — their privacy policy applies, not this one.
• Channel logo servers. Playlists reference logo images by URL. Displaying a channel list loads those images from whichever host the playlist points at.
• GitHub. The Mac app fetches an update feed from raw.githubusercontent.com and downloads new versions from github.com. That request tells GitHub your IP address, as any download would.

Xtream logins travel over plain HTTP

Worth knowing before you type credentials: the app talks to Xtream panels over http://, and rewrites an https:// host to plain HTTP, because most panels serve nothing else. Your username and password are therefore sent unencrypted, and anyone between you and the panel could read them. That is a property of IPTV panels rather than a choice we would defend — treat those credentials as low-value and never reuse a password there.

This website

No cookies, no analytics, no tracking scripts, no fonts loaded from third parties. The site is hosted on Vercel, which keeps standard server logs, and the download button points at GitHub, which counts downloads per release. Neither of those tells us who you are.

Content

Mika+Player ships no channels and resolves no subscriptions. It plays the playlist you supply, and what you are entitled to watch is between you and your provider.