PersoTV — what's new

New on streaming

Under your rows, Home now shows the most popular recent movies and series on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+, Max and Paramount+, with the service's name on each poster. Pick one and it opens on that service, on the title's own page when we know it (data from TMDB, availability by JustWatch). PersoTV does not play these films itself.

A clearer welcome page

The welcome page now says what you can watch (YouTube by Mood, live news channels, documentaries, karaoke, podcasts), links to the Apple TV app on the App Store, and answers 10 common questions. The privacy page lists today's video sources. Search engines and AI assistants get a plain summary of PersoTV.

An animated preview of the Apple TV app

The welcome page now shows a TV with a moving preview of PersoTV: the focus walks along the Mood rows and a video opens. It uses our own drawings, pauses when you scroll away, and stays still if your device asks for less motion.

"For you now" follows what you just watched

When you really watch or like a video, PersoTV looks for related videos and puts them first in "For you now" for the next 3 days. The ranking also understands what videos are about, so it finds videos on the same subject even when they use other words.

YouTube videos play right here

On the website, YouTube videos and live channels now play on the PersoTV page, in YouTube's own player, instead of opening youtube.com. Close the player and you are back in your rows. A video whose owner does not allow this shows a "Watch on YouTube" button.

More live news channels, opened in YouTube

New live channels: CBS News 24/7, NBC News NOW, LiveNOW from FOX, Sky News, Sky TG24, franceinfo, Euronews in Italian, ABC News Australia, WION and NASA's live view from the space station. France 24, Al Jazeera and Euronews now open their official YouTube live stream, as their rules ask. Cheddar News is gone. Each card shows what is on air now.

No more empty video pictures

Videos removed from YouTube (or made private) now leave your rows within 6 hours. While a picture loads, or if it cannot be shown, the card shows a coloured play symbol instead of a grey or empty box.

Videos you already watched are grey in every row

A video you already opened now shows in grey also in your Moods and in "For you now", not only in "Already viewed".

Every Mood to add, already viewed videos in grey, Apple TV app link

The "Add a Mood" row at the bottom now offers every ready-made Mood you don't have yet ("More to discover"), after the events, festive and taste suggestions. The videos in "Already viewed" are shown in grey, so new videos stand out. The Apple TV box now links to PersoTV on the App Store.

Suggested Moods: removed ones come back, and adding one takes you to it

Karaoke, Ambiances, Animation and Party are always offered under your rows when you don't have them, also after you remove one. When you add a suggested Mood, the page moves to its new row.

The calendar of events updates itself

Each month, newly announced votes, elections and big sporting or cultural events of your country are added to the Moods suggested on Home, with their official dates.

Many more Ambiances: fire, rain, forest, ocean and more

• Ambiances now looks for 12 kinds: fireplace, rain, forest, ocean, thunderstorm, snowy cabin, café, library, aquarium, space, train ride and lofi, and mixes them in the row (no two fires in a row).
• Ambiance, Karaoke, Animation and Party videos stay up to a year instead of 4 weeks, as long as they are still on YouTube. The row fills up over the next two or three days.

Karaoke like a DJ, and remove the Moods you added

• The Karaoke row is now a set: it warms up, builds to party songs and slows down at the end, never plays the same artist twice in a row of five, mixes decades and languages, and after each song you sing, the next ones follow on from it. Songs you sang in the last 24 hours wait for tomorrow.
• A short video now counts as watched after 60 % of its length (at least one minute), so a 3-minute song counts.
• Moods you added (your own, festive ones and events) have a "Remove" button on Home and in My Moods. The other Moods stay.
• Less space between the rows on Home.

Mood suggestions look like video cards

The Moods offered under your rows are now cards side by side, like the videos: each shows a picture of the first video you would get, with its channel, and "+ Add".

New Moods to add in one tap: festive ones and the big dates of your country

• Under your rows, up to 4 buttons offer a Mood: Karaoke, Ambiances (fireplace, rain, lofi), Animation, Party, and the events coming up in your country (Christmas, Halloween, national day, Escalade, Wimbledon, a Swiss vote…). One tap adds it; × hides it for 30 days.
• Event Moods are temporary: they leave Home a day or two after the event. On My Moods, "Keep it" keeps one for good.
• Videos marked "made for kids" are not shown in Animation, Karaoke and event Moods.
• The privacy policy now mentions the country of your device, used to choose the events.

New tagline: calm TV, no clickbait

The welcome page now explains first what makes PersoTV different: clickbait and videos that play on fear are moved down, and "Calmer feed" removes them.

A new Mood shows up right away

Adding, editing, removing or moving a Mood now rebuilds your rows straight away. Before, a new Mood only appeared on Home after the next automatic update, up to 30 minutes later.

Your YouTube channels show up in your rows

• If you connected YouTube, the latest videos of the channels you like or subscribe to there are now added to the matching Mood (Finance, News…), even when no search found them.
• Each row keeps up to 3 places near the start for your own channels: the ones you liked first, then your subscriptions.
• These videos are only shown to you. The privacy policy explains how the channel list is used.

"For you now" follows your day

• The row now learns what you watch at which time (for example the news on weekday mornings, a week-in-review on Saturday) and puts those videos first at the same time next week.
• A small line under the title tells you when it is tuned to your habits, and the feed refreshes when the part of the day changes.

Turn a search into a Mood

• Under the search results, a new button adds what you searched as a Mood (topics, keywords and channels are picked for you).
• The words you search also guide the next daily discovery of new videos for you.

Search also finds videos outside your sources

• When the search finds few videos among your sources, it also looks on PeerTube, the Internet Archive and YouTube. The extra videos are shown, not added to your sources.

Search on the web, like on Apple TV

• New Search page: type a title, a channel or a topic and the matching videos appear as cards you can play, like or hide.
• On a phone it is the second icon in the bottom bar; on a computer it is the first shortcut above the feed.

Icons instead of text in the phone menu

• The bottom bar now shows icons (home, Moods, apps, sources, liked channels, TV link) with a highlight on the current page; screen readers still read the names.

YouTube videos open the YouTube app directly

• On a phone, a YouTube video now opens straight in the YouTube app, with no blank tab left behind in the browser.

New public home page in four languages

• Visitors who are not signed in now see what PersoTV is, how it works and a FAQ, with the sign-in form on the same page.
• Available at persotv.ch/fr, /de, /en and /it.

Safer sign-up with email

• Creating an account asks for the password twice, and an eye button shows or hides what you typed.
• Passwords need at least 8 characters, and email sign-in is protected against bots (reCAPTCHA).

Type the code shown on your TV

• The TV code is no longer filled in from the link: you type the code you see on your own TV. Never enter a code someone sent you.

Security improvements

• Stricter browser security rules, links from video platforms must be secure (https), and the website only accepts calls from its own addresses.

New channels with their programme guide

• Added NDR Fernsehen, NDR International, ARD-alpha and Euronews (English, French, German). What is on air now is shown for all of them except NDR International.

More variety and more new videos

• At most 2 videos of the same channel per row, spread apart.
• The Music row only shows popular videos (100,000 views or more; live music channels excepted).
• More videos from channels you don't know yet: new YouTube channels every day, plus PeerTube and Internet Archive films and documentaries.

Edit your own Moods, see how many videos each source has

• Moods you created show a "Custom" badge and can be edited (name and keywords).
• "News <your country>" is offered according to where you are; "News" stays the international one.
• My sources shows how many videos each source currently has.

New look

• Dark grey design like the Apple TV app, bigger TV logo, sans-serif text.
• My Moods, My apps, My sources and Liked channels are now shortcuts just above the feed. "Connect a TV" disappears once a TV is linked; your TV is shown in My account.

Lighter, smarter fetching of new videos

• Videos older than 3 weeks are no longer fetched, analysed by the AI or kept.
• Sources that rarely post are checked less often (from every 30 minutes to every 3 hours); active ones stay frequent. Live TV is still refreshed every 30 minutes.
• Admin: Firestore reads/writes and run time are now measured per app function in the cost table.

Admin: cost by app function, scaling and budget

• New "Cost by app function" table: for each function (fetching videos, AI tagging, feed building, search, Mood builder...), the AI cost, YouTube units and estimated Google Cloud cost per month, and its share of the total.
• Scaling table per function at 10 / 100 / 1,000 / 10,000 users, with the user count where the free YouTube quota runs out.
• Monthly budget: set an amount; the projected month turns amber from 80% and red above 100%.

New: choose your sources, by country or by platform

• New "My sources" page: switch individual sources on or off, for one source or a whole country or platform. It applies to all your Moods, your feed and search.
• It lists the built-in sources and the channels added because you liked them. Everything is on by default.

Fix: Home did not refresh after the page stayed open for hours

• When you come back to the page (or switch back to the tab) and your feed is older than 40 minutes, it is rebuilt automatically.

Fix: pages stuck on "Loading..." on iPhone

• The app now falls back to a connection mode that works on phones and networks that block the default one, and no longer waits forever if your profile cannot be read.

The web app now looks like the Apple TV app

• New Home page: your Moods as rows of videos, with "Continue watching" first and "Already viewed" last. Swipe a row from right to left on iPhone to see the next videos.
• Card menu: like the channel, not for me, not interested, hide the channel. The same feedback as on the TV.
• Videos that PersoTV may stream play on the page; YouTube videos open on YouTube.
• "Install on Apple TV" button on Home. Mood management moved to the "My Moods" menu entry.

Channels you like join the Mood pots

• When you like a video from a YouTube channel we did not follow yet, the whole channel is added to the pot of the Moods that video matches, so you see more of it.

Automatic source curation

• Every Monday the AI adds new, verified YouTube channels to the Moods people use, and removes AI-added channels nobody opens or likes after 21 days.
• The Algorithm tab shows who added each source and the result of the last run.

Admin: find sources with AI; Twitch and Dailymotion removed

• In the Algorithm tab, each preset Mood has a "Find sources with AI" button: the AI suggests YouTube channels, each checked to exist, and you tick the ones to add.
• Twitch and Dailymotion are no longer used: their sources and videos were deleted.

Admin: the algorithm, Moods and sources

• New "Algorithm" tab (read-only): score weights and ranking rules with their defaults, every preset Mood with its topics and keywords, all media sources with their video counts, and the topic list the AI tags videos with.

Admin: how the algorithm learns each user

• Tap a user in the Users table to see their events per day (opens, likes, dislikes) over 60 days.
• A taste chart replays the ranking's affinity score day by day for their strongest channels and topics.

New page: channels you liked

• New "Liked channels" page in the menu: every channel you liked in the last 60 days, most recent first, with the number of likes.

New look from the PersoTV logo

• Warm cream and sunrise colours taken from the Mood-dots logo, with the logo in the header.
• Each Mood gets one of the logo's dot colours.

Admin: users, Moods and AI model test

• New "Users & Moods" tab: accounts, TVs, new and active users, languages, sign-in methods, and the most used suggested and custom Moods (totals only).
• Table of every registered user (name, email, sign-in method, dates, Moods, activity), with search.
• New "Model test" tab: run one prompt on the AI models from the most expensive to the cheapest and compare answer, speed and cost.

Admin page: API usage and AI costs

• New admin page (/admin), reachable by signing in with an authorised Google account only.
• Shows estimated AI cost, Gemini tokens, YouTube quota and calls to every external API, per day and per service.

Privacy, terms and account management

• Privacy policy (/privacy) and terms of use (/terms) in French, German, English and Italian.
• My account (/account): download all your data as a file, or delete your account and everything linked to it.
• Footer on every page: links to the privacy policy, terms, your account, YouTube's terms and Google's privacy policy.
• The "Kids" Mood is no longer offered: PersoTV is not made for children.

First version of the PersoTV companion site

• Sign in (home page): Google, Apple or email and password.
• Connect a TV (/link): scan the QR code on your Apple TV, or type its 6-character code, to sign the TV in.
• My Moods (home page): choose suggested Moods, put them in order, or describe your own and let AI build it.
• My apps (/apps): tick the apps installed on your Apple TV so PersoTV only shows videos you can open.
• Available in French, German, English and Italian.