01 The agreement
Vyn is licensed, not sold. Because it is distributed through the
App Store, the licence itself is Apple's
Licensed Application End User License Agreement
— the Standard EULA — which applies to Vyn in full and is
available at
apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula.
These Terms of Use sit alongside it and say the things the
Standard EULA cannot: what Vyn actually is, what it does not
include, and what using it assumes about you. Where the two
genuinely conflict, the Standard EULA wins. Installing or using
Vyn means you accept both, together with the
Privacy Policy and the
Copyright & Content Policy.
Vyn is published by an individual developer, reachable at
hellovynmedia@gmail.com, referred to below as "the developer".
02 What Vyn is
Vyn is a media player and catalogue for Apple TV, iPhone, iPad
and Mac. It browses public film and television metadata from
TMDB, and it plays media from sources you configure:
your own Jellyfin, Emby or Plex server, an SMB share on your
network, or an IPTV subscription you hold with a provider of
your choosing.
Vyn is not a streaming service. It is not affiliated with,
endorsed by or operated in partnership with any content
provider, media server project, tracker or IPTV panel.
03 Your licence
Subject to these terms and to the Standard EULA, you get a
personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and
use Vyn on Apple-branded devices you own or control, as
permitted by the App Store Terms of Service.
You may not, except where the law says you may regardless:
reverse-engineer, decompile or disassemble Vyn; remove or alter
its notices; rent, lease, lend, sell or sublicense it; or
distribute a modified copy.
04 Content is yours to bring
This is the part that matters most, so it is stated plainly.
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Vyn contains no media. No films, no episodes,
no channels, no music. Nothing is bundled and nothing is
downloaded with it.
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Vyn hosts nothing and indexes nothing. There
is no Vyn server, no Vyn catalogue of streams, and no
directory of sources built into the app or offered through it.
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Vyn ships with no sources configured. A fresh
install can play nothing at all until you add a server, a
share or a subscription of your own.
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The developer supplies no playlists, credentials or
subscriptions, and will not supply them if asked.
It follows that you are responsible for the media you play
through Vyn, and for holding whatever rights, licences or
subscriptions are needed to play it lawfully where you are. The
developer has no visibility into what you connect, no ability to
inspect it, and no ability to remove anything from it.
05 Acceptable use
You agree not to use Vyn:
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to access, play or distribute content you do not have the
right to access, play or distribute;
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to infringe anyone's copyright, trademark or other rights;
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in breach of the terms of any service you connect it to,
including your media server's, your tracker's and your IPTV
provider's;
- in breach of any law that applies to you;
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to circumvent a technological protection measure, or to strip,
re-encode or redistribute protected content.
Vyn plays what a source gives it. That is a design decision
about quality, not an invitation: a player that faithfully
reproduces a file is not a licence to obtain one.
06 Third-party services
Vyn talks to services it does not operate — TMDB, Trakt, Simkl,
MDBList, IntroDB, YouTube, your media servers and your IPTV
provider. Your use of each is governed by that service's own
terms and privacy policy, and your relationship is with them,
not with the developer. The
Privacy Policy lists every one
and says what each receives.
Those services can change, restrict or withdraw their interfaces
at any time. If one does, the part of Vyn that depended on it
may stop working, and that is outside the developer's control.
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified
by TMDB.
07 Requirements and changes
Vyn requires tvOS 26.4, iOS 26, iPadOS 26 or
macOS 26 or later, and an internet connection for metadata
and for any source that is not on your local network.
Vyn is in active development. Features may be added, changed or
removed between versions, and a capability present in one
release is not a promise about the next. Where something the app
relied on disappears — a service shutting down, an interface
changing — the honest outcome is sometimes that a feature goes
with it.
08 Price and purchases
Vyn is free to download, and watching is free.
The player, subtitles, Picture in Picture, AirPlay, catch-up and
the whole of live television are not behind a payment and will
not be put behind one. Vyn is a client for media you already
have, and charging you to reach it is the one thing these terms
rule out.
Vyn Plus is an optional in-app purchase that
adds multiview, the Insights page, additional household
profiles, iCloud sync, additional connected sources, and sending
a title to another player. It is offered two ways, and a single
purchase covers Apple TV, iPhone, iPad and Mac and is
shareable through Family Sharing:
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Vyn Plus (annual) — US$14.99 per year,
auto-renewing.
New subscribers are offered one week free.
Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of
purchase. The subscription renews automatically for a further
year unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours
before the end of the current period, and your account is
charged for the renewal within the 24 hours before the
period ends, at the then-current price. You can manage the
subscription and turn off auto-renewal in Settings ›
your Apple Account › Subscriptions at any time after
purchase. If you take the free week and then buy a
subscription, any unused part of the free period is forfeited.
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Vyn Plus Lifetime — US$29.99, once. A
one-time purchase, not a subscription. Nothing renews, nothing
is charged again, and it is restored on any device signed in
to the same Apple Account.
Prices are the United States prices. What you pay is shown in
your own currency, with tax, on the purchase screen in the app
and on the App Store before you confirm — that screen is the
price, and this page is a description of it. Prices may change;
a change to a subscription price is notified by Apple and, where
Apple requires it, takes effect only if you consent.
Every purchase is made from and administered by
Apple under the
App Store Terms of Service. The developer processes no payments, sees no card details and
stores none. Refunds are Apple's to give, through
reportaproblem.apple.com.
If a Plus subscription lapses, nothing you made is deleted. Your
history, lists and profiles stay on your device; iCloud sync
stops at the next launch and starts again if you resubscribe.
Vyn keeps working as a player, exactly as it does for someone
who has never bought anything.
This section and the
Privacy Policy are linked from the
purchase screen inside the app, on every platform.
09 No warranty
Vyn is provided "as is" and "as available",
without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including any
implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular
purpose, or non-infringement. The developer does not warrant
that Vyn will be uninterrupted or error-free, that every source
will play, or that any defect will be corrected.
Nothing here excludes a warranty or right that cannot lawfully
be excluded. Consumers in the United Kingdom, the European Union
and other jurisdictions have statutory rights that these terms
do not affect, and some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion
of implied warranties, so the exclusion above may not apply to
you in full.
10 Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the developer is not
liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or
exemplary damages, or for loss of data, revenue or profit,
arising out of your use of or inability to use Vyn — including
loss of viewing history or resume positions, however caused.
The developer's total liability arising out of these terms is
limited to the amount you paid for Vyn in the twelve months
before the claim.
These limits do not apply to liability for death or personal
injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else
that cannot lawfully be limited.
11 Termination
This licence ends if you stop complying with it. You can end it
at any time by deleting Vyn from your devices; the
Privacy Policy explains
what that removes.
12 Trademarks
"Vyn", the Vyn mark and the design of the app and this site
belong to the developer. Apple, Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, Mac,
tvOS, iOS, iPadOS, macOS and App Store are trademarks of Apple
Inc. Jellyfin, Emby, Plex, Trakt, Simkl, TMDB, MDBList, IntroDB,
YouTube, Dolby, Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos are trademarks of
their respective owners.
Those names appear on this site and in the app to describe what
Vyn interoperates with. That is nominative use, and it implies
no affiliation, sponsorship or endorsement in either direction.
13 Governing law
The Standard EULA sets the governing law for the licence itself,
and these terms follow it. Nothing here deprives you of the
protection of the mandatory consumer law of the country where
you live, or of the right to bring proceedings in your local
courts where that law gives you one.
If a provision of these terms is held unenforceable, the rest
continues in force.
Apple's role. Apple is not a party to these
terms and has no responsibility for Vyn. Apple and its
subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and
may enforce them against you. Any claim about Vyn — including
product liability, a failure to conform to a legal requirement,
or a claim under consumer protection law — is the developer's
responsibility and not Apple's. Apple has no obligation to
provide maintenance or support for Vyn.
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