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Comparison of apps for Apple TV, Fire TV and Roku

Written by Robert Blessing

Video sources (same for all apps)

You set up your video source or integration once, and Tappla keeps everything in sync automatically:

  • Vimeo: Any edits you make to videos, Showcases, or Channels in Vimeo are synced to Tappla and your apps every 24–48 hours.

  • Feed URL: Data from your JSON feed is synced automatically every 24–48 hours.

  • Manual videos: If you add videos by pasting URLs and metadata, you’ll need to update them manually.

Roku Channel

  • Tappla builds a custom Roku SDK app for you.

  • We handle submission to the Roku Developer portal.

  • You’ll need to invite us to your Roku Developer account so we can submit under your name.

Apple TV (tvOS app)

  • Tappla builds a native tvOS app for Apple TV.

  • We submit it directly to Apple’s App Store.

  • You’ll need to provide access to your Apple Developer account.

Amazon Fire TV

  • Tappla builds a custom native Fire TV (Android TV) SDK app for you, just like our Roku and Apple TV apps.

  • It is a real signed native app that publishes to the Amazon Appstore, where your audience searches for it and installs it in one click. Your viewers never sideload anything.

  • You publish under your own free Amazon developer account, so the listing belongs to you. We deliver the signed app, ready-made store images, and a step-by-step submission guide at apps.tappla.com.

  • Prefer us to handle it? Invite us to your Amazon developer account and we create the app and upload the package for you, then you just add the basic info and images.

  • Note: Amazon discontinued its old no-code Amazon Creator tool, so this is a full native app instead of an auto-generated web wrapper.

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