Changelog

What's new in the Combust Media apps and Hearth.

Combust Media 4.4.2 — October 2026

Catch-up TV ⏪

Missed something? If your provider supports catch-up, the TV guide now reaches back into its archive. Past programmes you can replay are marked, and picking one plays it from the start — on your phone and on your TV.

Works with playlists that declare catch-up, and with Xtream Codes accounts
Locked folders still ask for the PIN before a replay starts

Programme reminders 🔔

Set a reminder on anything coming up in the guide and get a notification just before it starts — tap it to go straight to the channel. On Android TV, where notifications are easy to miss, a prompt appears on screen instead.

Choose how early: when it starts, or 1, 2 or 5 minutes before
If a programme moves in the guide, its reminder moves with it

Jellyfin 🎬

Already run a Jellyfin server? Connect it in the Hearth tab and your movies and shows play in Combust, alongside your Hearth library. Continue Watching and Next Up stay in sync with your other Jellyfin apps, and your server converts anything your device can't play directly. Included with the Hearth subscription. On TV, sign in with Quick Connect — no typing passwords with the remote.

Find subtitles online

No subtitles for a film or episode? Choose Find subtitles online… in the player's subtitle menu to search OpenSubtitles in your languages. The one you pick comes back automatically next time you watch.

Trakt

Connect your Trakt account (Settings → Trakt — scan a QR code, no typing) and what you watch on demand is logged to your Trakt history automatically.

Audio Custom Modes

Custom Modes can now be audio: libraries of albums, audiobooks and shows you can resume, and immersive scenes — a looping backdrop with a rail of stations. Developers: see the Custom Modes guide.

CarPlay

Combust Media now shows up in CarPlay: browse your favourites and your radio playlists on the car's screen and play them straight from there, with the station's now-playing info on the dashboard.

Also in this release

The TV guide updates in the background without slowing the app down
Android Auto skips past a station whose stream is down
Requires iOS 16 or later
Bug fixes and performance improvements

Combust Media 4.4.0 — September 2026

A full TV guide 📺

The TV guide is now a proper grid: scroll through time and channels, see what's on now and next, and tune straight from it. On the TV it sits beside the player; on your phone it opens under the video.

Better on-demand players on TV

Scrub through Custom Mode and Hearth titles with the remote — hold a direction to move faster
A restart button, on TV and on phone
The same audio, video and subtitle pickers as live TV

Also in this release

Live streams that drop now reconnect quietly instead of showing an error
The app stays usable while the TV guide updates
On TV, the playing channel is now easy to tell apart from the one you're on
Android Auto fixes
Bug fixes and performance improvements

Combust Media 4.3.1 — September 2026

Let AI organize your channels ✨

A 4,000-channel playlist is unusable until it's in folders, and nobody wants to sort that by hand. Tap Organize in the folder strip above your channel list and the whole list comes back proposed into folders — sports, news, kids, adult — reusing the folders you already have instead of inventing duplicates.

You see every suggestion on a review screen first; nothing moves until you approve
Existing folders are never deleted, only added to
Included with Media, once a day
On phone and on TV

Lock folders with a PIN 🔒

Set an app PIN, then lock any folder. Channels inside a locked folder ask for the PIN before they ever start playing — including when you land on one from Random, Next or Previous — so an Adult folder can't surprise anyone. One correct PIN lasts until you restart the app, so you're not asked channel by channel.

Longer buffer

On a shaky connection, buffer much further ahead to ride out the drops. The seek bar now shows how much is loaded ahead of where you are. It's a per-device setting, so your TV can buffer hard while your phone stays light on data.

Also in this release

Channels borrow their logo from your TV guide when the playlist doesn't have one
The TV app gained the settings and features the phone already had
Android Auto tells you what to do when you haven't added a playlist yet
Bug fixes and performance improvements

Combust Media 4.2.0 — 22 July 2026

Podcasts 🎙️

Search millions of shows, subscribe to your favourites, and pick up every episode exactly where you left off — on your phone and on your TV.

An Up Next queue, and a Continue listening shelf
Playback position follows you between devices
Unlimited subscriptions with Media (the free plan keeps one)

Sleep timer 🌙

Fall asleep to anything. Pick 15 to 60 minutes or a custom length; playback fades out gently and lets your screen sleep.

Combust Media 4.1.0 — 17 July 2026

Introducing Hearth — your media, served from home 🔥

Point the new Hearth desktop app (macOS, Windows, Linux) at your movies, series and music, and they appear in the new Hearth tab — organised beautifully with posters, descriptions and ratings, streaming to your phone and TV over your home network. Your files never leave home.

Automatic discovery — your library appears on any device on the same Wi‑Fi
Full detail pages with seasons, episodes and quality versions
Subtitles (including embedded ones) and multiple audio tracks
Works on phone, tablet and TV — get started

Sign in on your TV with your phone

No more typing passwords with the remote — the TV sign-in screen shows a QR code. Scan it with the app (Settings → Link your TV) and you're in.

Also in this release

Set Hearth as your startup screen
Redesigned in-app alerts
Bug fixes and performance improvements

Hearth desktop 0.1.3 — 17 July 2026

Hearth now updates itself: new versions download in the background and install when you restart the app (macOS and Windows; Linux AppImage)
macOS builds are signed and notarized by Apple

Hearth desktop 0.1.2 — 15 July 2026

First public beta: scan a folder, organise it automatically, and stream to the Combust Media apps over your home network
Movies, TV series and music, with posters and descriptions
Web admin for headless and NAS setups