5 Essential Apple TV Apps You Need To Install In 2025
The article recommends five essential apps to expand what you can do with [[Apple TV]] beyond subscription streaming, highlighting tools that let you play local video files, track viewing, and turn idle screens into art. It profiles [[Infuse]] for broad-format playback from local or networked media servers (via [[Plex]] or [[Jellyfin]]), including subtitle support, Trakt syncing, and optional HDR and [[Dolby Vision]] with a premium tier that adds cloud integrations like [[Google Drive]] and [[Dropbox]]. It also covers [[Letterboxd]] for social movie discovery and reviews, [[Artcast]] for displaying curated artwork and monetizing your creations, and [[Trakt]] for unified searching, tracking, and cross-service discovery. Most apps offer useful free features, with paid tiers unlocking advanced syncing, stats, and premium display codecs.