{"rid":"debrid/vidi-media-center","card":{"rid":"debrid/vidi-media-center","eid":"apple","topic":"debrid","slug":"vidi-media-center","provider":"Vidi · Media Center","url":"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vidi-media-center/id6648776878","domain":"apple.com","category":"paid one-time media centre app for Apple platforms, Stremio addon API, debrid-aware","tier":"app purchase","verdict":"qualifies","vorder":0,"grp":"usable","confidence":"documented","binding":"none","identity_kind":"card","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":1,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"rest","egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-23T02:28:11.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-24","stale_on":"2026-11-23","n_evidence":3,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":4.99,"summary":"No free tier: 'USD 4.99 · Designed for iPad'. One-time App Store purchase, no subscription line on the listing.","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":0},"record":{"topic":"debrid","slug":"vidi-media-center","provider":"Vidi · Media Center","url":"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vidi-media-center/id6648776878","category":"paid one-time media centre app for Apple platforms, Stremio addon API, debrid-aware","tier":"app purchase","free_tier":{"stated":"No free tier: 'USD 4.99 · Designed for iPad'. One-time App Store purchase, no subscription line on the listing.","unit":"none","metered_on":"none","source_url":"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vidi-media-center/id6648776878","read_on":"2026-10-23","notes":"A regional price was seen only through a search index (INR 499 on the Indian storefront); the USD 4.99 is from the US listing read directly."},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable: a player","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://vidi.plomo.se/","notes":""},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable: progress syncs through iCloud; media stays with the debrid provider","days":null,"source_url":"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vidi-media-center/id6648776878","notes":""},"egress":{"terms":"No allowance: playback goes to whatever URL the installed addon returns. The app itself carries no traffic.","metered":false,"free_allowance":"not applicable","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vidi-media-center/id6648776878"},"interface":["rest"],"interface_detail":"'Currently Vidi only supports addons using the Stremio addon API', with a subset documented on the vendor site. Native player with 'HDR10, HDR10+, and Dolby Vision'; progress syncs 'between your devices with iCloud'.","tooling":"App Store install for iPhone, iPad, Mac (Apple silicon), Apple TV and Vision. No server, no web app.","chaining":"The Apple-platform front end for the same addon URL a Stremio client would use: the debrid key lives inside the addon, so one key serves Vidi on an Apple TV and Stremio Web anywhere else.","limits":[{"kind":"write-gated","value":"the App Store purchase is the gate; after it, the app imposes no published request or byte limit","source":"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vidi-media-center/id6648776878"}],"limits_note":"The addon-API subset is the functional limit: an addon that relies on parts of the Stremio API Vidi does not implement will install and then misbehave, which is a support burden rather than a measurable cap.","binding":"none","binding_note":"Nothing here counts bytes or requests; any 1 TiB/month wall is met at the addon or the debrid provider, not at the player.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"Apple ID with a payment method for a USD 4.99 purchase. No account with the developer.","country":"None"},"reliability_note":"A single-developer App Store app: the risk is abandonment and iOS-version drift, not quota. It reached the App Store, which most addon front ends never do.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"The US App Store listing and the vendor site were read. Not measured: installation and playback, and which addons pass the API subset.","evidence":[{"url":"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vidi-media-center/id6648776878","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"the price and platform list: '$4.99', 'Designed for iPad', iOS 17+/iPadOS 17+/macOS 14+ (M1)/tvOS 17+/visionOS 1.0+, 'Currently Vidi only supports addons using the Stremio addon API', iCloud progress sync, HDR10/HDR10+/Dolby Vision"},{"url":"https://vidi.plomo.se/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Purchase once and get it for all supported platforms', 'Family sharing enabled', 'No subscriptions', 'Supports Stremio Addons', 'Available on iOS, iPadOS and tvOS'"},{"url":"https://apps.apple.com/in/app/vidi-media-center/id6648776878","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"reported, not read: a search index shows the Indian storefront listing '₹ 499', which would make the price regional rather than a single global number"}],"verdict":"qualifies","verified_at":"2026-10-23T02:28:11.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"USD 4.99","notes":"The only front end with a publishable per-month cost of essentially zero after the first year: USD 4.99 once, versus USD 9/month for a hosted addon or USD 24/month for a hosted stack. It is the cheapest way to get a TV-native client with no hardware, provided the client is in Apple's ecosystem.","extras":{"developer":"Plata o Plomo AB","api_subset":"https://vidi.plomo.se/addons","license_shape":"one purchase, all platforms, family sharing, no subscription","alternatives_seen":"Streamyfin, Infuse, Swiftfin, Odin (Jellyfin clients, not debrid front ends)"}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":4.99,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":4.99,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[],"history":[],"drift":[]}