Terms of Use

Matinee: Car Video Player — published by Sergiu Silosiev

Effective 31 October 2026

By using Matinee you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the app. These terms apply together with Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement (https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/); where the two differ, these terms apply to the extent the law allows.

What Matinee is

An iPhone video player for media you already have: videos on your iPhone, your own Plex, Jellyfin or Emby server, IPTV playlists and Xtream logins you have from a provider, with an optional TV guide (XMLTV), and folders on your network (SMB, WebDAV). It plays them on your iPhone and, while the car is parked, on your car's screen through CarPlay. It can download videos for watching without a connection and has a kids mode locked with a PIN.

Matinee provides no content

Matinee does not provide, host, sell or link to any channels, streams, films or shows. It comes with no playlists and no channel lists. It plays only what you add.
You are responsible for what you add. Add only servers, playlists, folders and files that you own or are entitled to access and watch, under the law where you are and the terms of whoever provides them. Using Matinee with playlists or streams that infringe copyright or other rights is not allowed.
We do not see what you add — it never reaches us — so we do not review, monitor or endorse it, and we are not responsible for it or for its availability, quality or legality.
Matinee is not affiliated with any IPTV provider, and we cannot help you obtain a playlist or a subscription to one.

Safe driving comes first

Video on the car's screen is for when the car is parked. The driver must never watch video while driving, and must not operate the app or the iPhone while the car is moving.
When the car moves, iOS and your car switch Matinee to sound only, and video returns when you park. Matinee itself does not detect whether the car is moving and cannot guarantee this switch in every car; it relies on iOS and the car. If video ever shows while you drive, do not watch it — stop playback or pull over safely.
Set up sources and choose what to watch before you drive.
Obey the law and your car. Follow traffic laws — some places restrict any screen the driver can see — and your vehicle maker's instructions. Keep the volume at a level that lets you hear traffic, sirens and warnings.
Matinee is not a navigation, safety or driver-assistance system. You are solely responsible for how you use the app while in or near a vehicle.

Servers and services you connect

Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, IPTV providers and network folders are run by you or by others, under their own terms. Some features depend on them — for example, Plex may require Plex Pass or Remote Watch Pass to play away from home, and a home server needs a public address or a VPN to be reached from the road. Changes to those services can stop a source from working in Matinee, and we cannot guarantee that any of them stays compatible.

Free use and Matinee Pro

Without Pro you can play videos from your iPhone, watch the first video you play while setting up the app to the end, and watch one video on your car's screen, start to finish. Matinee Pro unlocks playback from servers, playlists and network folders, the car's screen, the full TV guide, downloads and kids mode. The subscription screen shows what is included and what it costs before you buy.

Matinee Pro is offered as an auto-renewing subscription (weekly or yearly) and as a one-time lifetime purchase.

Subscriptions

The price and billing period are shown on the subscription screen before you buy, in your own currency, as set by the App Store.
Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase.
The subscription renews automatically for the same period at the then-current price unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your Apple Account is charged for renewal within the 24 hours before the period ends.
Cancel in Settings → your name → Subscriptions, or in Matinee → Settings → Manage subscription. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription. Cancelling stops the next renewal; access continues until the end of the period already paid.
If the price changes, Apple tells you beforehand and, where the law or Apple's rules require it, asks for your consent.

Lifetime purchase

Lifetime is a one-time purchase, not a subscription: it is charged once and never renews.
It unlocks Matinee Pro for your Apple Account for as long as Matinee is offered on the App Store and supports your iPhone's version of iOS. It does not entitle you to future separate apps.
Buying lifetime does not cancel a subscription you already have. Cancel it yourself as described above to avoid further charges.

Payments, refunds and restoring

Payments are processed by Apple under Apple's terms; we never see your card details.
Refunds are handled by Apple, not by us, at https://reportaproblem.apple.com; we cannot grant or refuse one ourselves.
To restore Pro on a new device or after reinstalling, use Restore Purchases in the app with the same Apple Account.
Access is confirmed with the App Store. If a purchase is refunded or revoked, or a subscription lapses, Pro features lock again.

Downloads

Downloads are for your own offline viewing of videos you are entitled to watch, on your own iPhone. They are stored on your iPhone, take up its space, and are deleted when you remove them, remove their source, or delete the app.

Licence and acceptable use

We grant you a personal, non-transferable licence to use the app on Apple devices you own or control, as permitted by the App Store terms. Do not resell the app, do not try to unlock paid features without paying, and do not use it for anything unlawful, including to access or share content you have no right to.

Matinee includes open-source components, including FFmpeg and libsmb2, under the GNU Lesser General Public License; they are listed in the app under Settings → Acknowledgments. Nothing in these terms limits the rights those licences give you for those components, including the right to modify them and to reverse-engineer the app to the extent needed to debug such modifications.

Trademarks

Apple, iPhone and CarPlay are trademarks of Apple Inc. Plex is a trademark of Plex, Inc.; Jellyfin and Emby belong to their respective owners; FFmpeg is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard. Matinee is an independent app and is not made, sponsored or endorsed by Apple, by any of these projects or companies, or by any vehicle maker. Their names are used only to describe compatibility.

Availability

We may change, suspend or discontinue the app or any of its features. Features depend on iOS, CarPlay, your car, your network, the services you connect and the permissions you grant; for example, without local network access the app cannot reach servers and folders at home, and a car that does not support video apps will not show Matinee at all.

No warranty

The app is provided "as is". To the fullest extent permitted by law we make no warranty that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, that every file, stream or format will play, that any server, playlist or TV guide will be reachable or accurate, or that video will appear in every car.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Sergiu Silosiev is not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential damages, for loss of data, for content you add or its legality, for the services you connect, or for any accident, injury, fine or damage arising from using the app while driving. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the amount you paid for the app in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, or your rights as a consumer under the law of the country where you live.

Ending access

You can stop using the app at any time by deleting it (and cancelling any subscription as described above). We may end your licence if you break these terms; the sections Matinee provides no content and Safe driving comes first and the limits of liability continue to apply after that.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms; the new version is published here with a new effective date. Continuing to use the app after a change means you accept it.

Contact

Sergiu Silosiev

sergiusil@proton.me