Features
Built like a television
Every decision in Currents answers the same question: what would a TV do?
The program guide on a real Apple TV: grid with the now-line, live preview top-left, info panel with a plot summary. The page's anchor shot.
1920×1080 (or 3840×2160), clean capture, no overlays
Fullscreen
Surf like you mean it
Press up or down and you're on the next channel. No menus, no wall of posters. A banner tells you where you landed, what's on, and what's next, then gets out of the way.
Flick past ten channels and Currents starts one stream, for the channel you settled on. Your server never notices the journey.
Silver Basin
Live1994 · 8:00 – 10:05 PM
Next · The Quiet Coast at 10:05
Between programs
Bring back the commercial break
Point Currents at a Plex playlist of vintage ads, station bumpers, trailers, PSAs, whatever you collect, and it fills the minutes between programs the way a real station would. Landing mid-break instead of mid-menu is half of what makes it feel like television.
The schedule never bends for it: breaks are timed so the next program starts exactly when the guide said it would, and a clip that can't finish cleanly simply isn't started. Not your thing? A quiet countdown card can hold the slot instead, or skip breaks entirely and let programs run back to back.
Channels from your own library
Currents reads your library and builds the lineup itself: broad channels that carry everything, genre and network channels, and dedicated channels for series deep enough to earn one.
A real program guide
A full grid with a live preview of whatever you're tuned to, plot summaries on the focused program, and roughly a day of listings ahead.
Channel surfing
Press up and down in fullscreen to move through the lineup, with a channel banner that tells you what you just landed on and what's next.
Three schedule styles
Run programs back to back, align them to the quarter-hour with a countdown between, or fill the gap with bumpers from a Plex playlist you choose.
It survives a bad night
Streams adapt when the connection struggles, the app fails over to your server's local address if DNS dies, and a program that can't play shows a calm slate rather than breaking the schedule.
What's on, from the Home screen
The Apple TV top shelf shows what's airing across your channels right now. Pick one and it opens straight to it, already live.
Every channel gets an identity
A color and monogram, derived from the channel itself: the same twelve-color palette you see in the home page's guide. Rename a channel and the monogram follows; its color is permanent.
The Up Next card mid-countdown: ident tile prominent, next title and time.
The Channels screen mid-reorder: a row lifted, idents and toggles visible.
The Apple TV Home screen with Currents focused and the top shelf showing what's on.
And the small things